From Mainframe Programmer to Insurtech Founder, Mark Seghers Built Inspire Health Tech to Put Consumers First

🎙️ From Mainframe Programmer to Insurtech Founder, Mark Seghers Built Inspire Health Tech to Put Consumers First

Mark Seghers, CEO and co-founder of Inspire Health Tech, has spent three decades in insurance technology, from building an insurer's first internet strategy to helping grow the company that became GoHealth. He shares why he believes consumers should find the right plan before they talk to an agent, how Inspire Health Tech's MetaPro projects out-of-pocket costs for Medicare and ACA shoppers, and why trust is the one thing that can't be automated. He also opens up about being let go, learning from broken trust, and teaching kids chess.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• An outside-in approach to early internet strategy

• Agent quote engines and the fear of missing out

• How the ACA reshaped health insurance sales

• The noise of shared leads

• Plan before agent

• Projecting out-of-pocket costs with claims-based profiles

• Transparency of cost and quality in healthcare

• Hiring people who challenge your ideas

• Warm introductions over cold calls

• Ethical capitalism and win-win business

🌟 Mark's Key Influences:

• The founders of Norvax: young builders who brought him into a fast-growing startup

• Milliman: the product that sparked the idea to flip plan matching toward consumers

• A fellow panelist: the reminder that trust doesn't scale

• His sons: the chess players who showed him what the game can teach

👉 Don't miss this conversation about building technology that serves consumers, agents, and carriers at once, and why honesty is the best long-term strategy.

🔗 Connect with Mark Seghers:

Website: inspireht.com Email: mark@inspireht.com

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