Delegance Brokerage with Alex Ledbetter - Weaviate Podcast #144!
Alex Ledbetter is the founder of Delegance Brokerage, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage he built entirely on his own. The conversation opens with his origin story: an internship on a political risk, credit, and bond underwriting team in New York, where he watched a three-trillion-dollar portfolio run off the back of Excel and realized commercial insurance brokers earning 15–35% annual commissions could be disintermediated the way Robinhood disintermediated retail stock brokers. After raising $200K and securing 190 state licenses in 45 days, he spent seven months teaching himself to b