Miles Beckett discusses Flossy's original business model prior to pivoting to a dental discount plan and later AI receptionists.
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“And actually when we had raised the money, the original model was to be like a better type of dental insurance, but we were actually going to be an insurer.”
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“And then we started building this AI receptionist with the idea that we could replace some of the call agents that we were using on our team, and that's what really set us down the path.”
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