The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
McKeel Hagerty reads as The Visionary because he refuses to treat insurance as merely a product, positioning it instead as infrastructure for a larger cultural enterprise. His PhD-dropout moment, ignited by a single idea to reimagine Hagerty as a car club, marks the archetype's defining leap: subordinating the conventional business model to one grand organizing concept.
“I only see it growing because they can connect easier. They're doing their own events from gridlife to, I don't know if you see this thing this guy does where he closes off the roads in West Virginia and he holds the drift event on it. No. I mean, the creativity is like just off the charts. So I feel very positive and encouraged.”
“What I find fascinating is. And I wrote about it in this week's Never Stop Driving newsletter. It's one of many newsletters, everybody, that you can get for free. Go to the headerity.com website and you can get a daily digest of all the stuff that we produce. You can get a weekly.”
“Yeah, I'm just amazed. You know, a few years ago, I always used this sort of, all the reasons you mentioned about how far the text is going to go. I used the, I just kind of used Manhattan, the island of Manhattan. It's terrible to drive in. It's clogged.”
“Water molecule to spit out hydrogen and oxygen. Very energy intensive. So let's just throw out the realities of today. But hypothetically, you could generate that energy renewably with solar or wind or whatever.”
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