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)

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