Sid Jha is the CEO of an insurance company called Arbol. Sid's problem is this: Can you make insurance cheaper and more accessible by using new technology, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking about risk?

In this episode, Sid explains: 
How climate change is affecting the risks Arbol covers 
How Arbol is competing with giant insurance companies 
Why prediction market contracts are good for betting, but not hedging

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Follow Jacob Goldstein on LinkedIn, X and Instagram 
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Sid Jha is the CEO of an insurance company called Arbol. Sid's problem is this: Can you make insurance cheaper and more accessible by using new technology, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking about risk?
In this episode, Sid explains:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>How climate change is affecting the risks Arbol covers&nbsp;</li>
<li>How Arbol is competing with giant insurance companies&nbsp;</li>
<li>Why prediction market contracts are good for betting, but not hedging</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.

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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with&nbsp;entrepreneurs and engineers&nbsp;tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.
iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

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Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there.

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Hosted by former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein, What’s Your Problem helps listeners understand the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now.

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