JERUSALEM — When Israel went into lockdown last spring, Jerusalem pub owner Leon Shvartz moved quickly to save his business — shifting to a delivery and takeaway model that kept him afloat throughout the summer. Then came the second lockdown. …
Read more »Capturing how individuals and governments respond to pandemics is one of the key challenges to developing risk models that could underpin future insurance solutions, according to specialists. The race is on to develop risk models to support the development of …
Read more »The Willis Research Network has partnered with Metabiota, a risk analytics organisation that specialises in infectious diseases modelling and helps businesses and countries build resilience to pandemics. The partnership will leverage San Francisco-headquartered Metabiota’s epidemiological data analytics capabilities to improve …
Read more »Crises are inevitable—but society can act beforehand to limit their destructiveness “BE PREPARED” is the sensible motto of the boy scouts. Yet the fast spread of covid-19 reveals that the world largely ignored that wise dictum. With one conspicuous exception …
Read more »Metabiota on the Cover of Wired Magazine. Pilot Growth portfolio company, Metabiota, is featured on this month’s cover of Wired. “We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn’t We?”
Read more »COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and one where humanity takes the hard, necessary steps to protect itself.
Read more »Metabiota on CNN Business. It’s too late for this pandemic. But everyone wants insurance against the next one.
Businesses around the world are facing catastrophic losses as the novel coronavirus forces them to scale back operations or shut down entirely, and most don’t have insurance cover for pandemics. Companies are now racing to buy protection against the next outbreak, insurance experts say.
Read more »It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company called BlueDot, which uses machine learning to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, alerted clients—including various governments, hospitals, and businesses—to …
Read more »William Lee Mentioned in CEO Playbook.
It is a gold mine of lessons learned from the most talented Silicon Valley legends but from the perspective of one of the biggest tech business failures. As some of us are going through growth phases of different technology companies, I couldn’t help myself recommending this film to you guys as founders, CEOs, and investors.
We often learn about many success stories and lessons learned from success stories. But I think the best lessons learned are from failures, especially from the smartest people’s failures.
I hope you guys will find time to watch this.
Read more »Companies buy insurance that usually pays out when they have to halt operations. But it’s usually because of physical damage, not outbreaks. Two years ago Munich Re, the reinsurance giant, tried to start underwriting a new kind of insurance …
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