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#8: Rick Nucci, Guru

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Rick Nucci is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guru.
Rick Nucci is co-founder and CEO at Guru. Rick brings twenty years of experience in creating category-leading software solutions and companies. Prior to Guru, Rick was the founder and chief technology officer of Boomi, which defined and led a new segment as the first-ever cloud integration platform-as-a-service. Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010, where Rick went on to run the Boomi business for Dell as its general manager, helping grow the organization into the industry leader it is today. Rick frequently speaks at industry events about startups, SaaS and cloud computing. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management from Penn State University.

In this talk, Rick discusses the importance of having complementary founder skills, his philosophy about culture, what to do when he doesn't know what to do, and why he insists that people vent.

[01:04] “Success is not a license for arrogance.”

[02:55] What Rick learned from the trials and errors of leadership

[15:03] Importance of Culture

[19:42] Hiring Candidates

[22:09] Downsides to Guru’s Culture

[28:02] Maintaining Guru’s Culture during the Pandemic

[34:19] The Change and Growth that Ricks has done as a Leader

[40:30] Experiencing Self-Doubt and Impostor Syndrome

[45:46] What Rick wished he knew before starting his journey

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Rick Nucci is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guru.
Rick Nucci is co-founder and CEO at Guru. Rick brings twenty years of experience in creating category-leading software solutions and companies. Prior to Guru, Rick was the founder and chief technology officer of Boomi, which defined and led a new segment as the first-ever cloud integration platform-as-a-service. Boomi was acquired by Dell in 2010, where Rick went on to run the Boomi business for Dell as its general manager, helping grow the organization into the industry leader it is today. Rick frequently speaks at industry events about startups, SaaS and cloud computing. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management from Penn State University.

In this talk, Rick discusses the importance of having complementary founder skills, his philosophy about culture, what to do when he doesn't know what to do, and why he insists that people vent.

[01:04] “Success is not a license for arrogance.”

[02:55] What Rick learned from the trials and errors of leadership

[15:03] Importance of Culture

[19:42] Hiring Candidates

[22:09] Downsides to Guru’s Culture

[28:02] Maintaining Guru’s Culture during the Pandemic

[34:19] The Change and Growth that Ricks has done as a Leader

[40:30] Experiencing Self-Doubt and Impostor Syndrome

[45:46] What Rick wished he knew before starting his journey

To hear more from Alisa, sign up for her newsletter at http://alisacohn.com/5scripts

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Grab a copy of From Start-Up to Grown-Up by Alisa Cohn from Amazon
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