Chen: Cyber loss coverage will be a fastest-growing insurance category
Frank Chen · a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance · Jan 2, 2019 · at 8:27
Frank Chen of Andreessen Horowitz explains how fear of data breaches and cleanup costs drives commercial demand for cyber insurance.
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“And so this is going to be one of the fastest growing categories of an entirely new type of insurance, which is I will insure you against cyber losses.”
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