The billiondollar bet that turned insurance into entertainment

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News Source : Fortune

News Summary

  • GEICO, Progressive, Allstate, and Liberty Mutual have built something I have not seen any other industry replicate: a competitive landscape where the primary corporate asset is not the product or the distribution network, but a comedy franchise.
  • The insurers that made this entertainment pivot now dominate their markets.
  • Building an entertainment franchise requires a commitment that few CEOs are prepared to make.Patience is the hardest part of this model to replicate.
  • The insurance industry figured that out a generation ago.
  • The rest of American business can still catch up.
Here is the paradox at the center of the American insurance industry the companies that dominate market share today got there not by explaining what they sell, but by refusing to mention it. Warren [+4586 chars]

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