Steve McGovern
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Steve McGovern
@SteveMcGov
Principal at Crystal Venture Partners NYC


If you're a broker or carrier selling direct-to-consumer, @ycombinator and Tarantino have a message for you. Your buyers are now using AI to research and decide which insurance to buy. You need to adapt your distribution for the world where buyers rely on AI agents to make decisions. The good news? - Both consumers and insurance businesses will benefit from this efficiency. - @kinroai (YC P26) helps your company win in this agentic world using the expertise of InsurTech experts & researchers from Google DeepMind. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥




Kinro (@kinroai) helps brokers and D2C carriers sell P&C insurance with AI assistants. They train AI sales agents to handle qualification, quoting, recommendations, and binding while staying compliant. Today: human-to-agent on websites. Tomorrow: agent-to-agent across AI platforms. Congrats on the launch, @pierrealexai & @corentin_hgt! ycombinator.com/launches/Ppp-k…


We just rebuilt every startup in @ycombinator's latest demo day batch. Here's what our agentic "founders" pulled off and what it means for the future of startups. Fully useable products at the bottom of the thread below 🤖🧨

EPISODE 143: How to Build with AI in 2026 @JTLonsdale sits down with @justindross, co-founder of Opendoor & WithCoverage What are the newest possibilities with AI? What does it mean for legacy SaaS? And why is JD excited for young talent entering the workforce today? (00:00) Episode intro (01:28) JD's entrepreneurial journey (05:18) Wins and challenges at Opendoor / $OPEN meme stock moment (09:55) WithCoverage and upending insurance brokerage (13:11) Mimetic frameworks for entrepreneurs (15:45) How AI is changing the way companies are built (20:21) The impact of AI on existing SaaS (26:50) How to stop AI spam and imposters (31:27) How should young people prepare for AI era? (34:20) The new invention era / why AI levels the playing field






Can someone explain to me how this was NOT called a backcourt violation by the Hawks? Look at the score! You can't make these officiating mistakes here!

Happy Veterans Day. On today’s show: – @CJHandmer (Terraform Industries) – @justindross (WithCoverage) – @josiezayner (The Embryo Corporation) – @scottshapiro (Coinbase) See you on the stream.





