How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 16: From Insurance Giant to Tech Platform: The Story of Ping An
From an insurance giant to an incubator of cutting-edge tech companies, Ping An’s evolution is impressive and unique. Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Larsen joins Azeem Azhar to explore how the China-based holding conglomerate has managed such agility at immense scale.
They also discuss:
- Why being founder-led has enabled bold movement into new markets.
- How Ping An created the world’s largest telemedicine platform from scratch.
- Why innovation must come from the company’s core culture and leadership.
- Why Ping An’s success is linked to pivoting the entire group to a self-built cloud platform.
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Further resources:
- “How Ping An, an insurer, became a fintech super-app” (The Economist, 2020)
- “Ping-An, the tech giant masquerading as a finance company” (FinTech Brain Food, 2020)
- “Ping An on building a fintech ecosystem in China” (McKinsey, 2019)