Rick Nucci
@ricknucci
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Co-founder of @guru_hq, Founder of @boomi. Success is not a license for arrogance.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2007
A challenge with AI adoption is that organizations are not built to a Grand Plan where AI can just be slotted in, but rather socially constructed, random & in flux Here's an anecdote from a paper on how a process re-engineering effort led to revelations that drove people insane.
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“low reproducibility is expected in exploratory fields” literally how any highly impactful thing gets discovered in any field
@AndreasShrugged @JDVance Biology does face reproducibility challenges, with studies showing replication rates as low as 10-40% in areas like cancer research. A 2016 Nature survey found 77% of biologists failed to replicate others' experiments, higher than in physics or medicine. Publication bias, complex
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Some people view everyone as a potential competitor and others view everyone as a potential collaborator. I'm not sure which is more successful on average, but the collaborators certainly seem happier.
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It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI. Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas. Writing is where we do our best thinking.
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People calling MCP just “tool calling” fundamentally misunderstand the protocol. MCP is much more than that. The protocol defines a set of primitives that go well beyond function invocations. Server-side primitives (capabilities the server exposes to the model): • Tools -
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ENTERPRISE AI: BUILD AGENTS, NOT TOOLS In the past 2 weeks, I've met several AI agent tooling startups that have each realized that the biggest problem in large enterprises is NOT the tooling to build, test and deploy agents, but that these enterprises don't have the talent
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@DavidSacks I'll take the opposite side. An Okta-like system for agent auth will emerge, but most value will accrue to vertical agents optimized for specific roles. Integrations are easy (especially with MCP)—the real battle is intelligence, not integrations.
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I think grit is one of the most underappreciated traits of successful founders. There are so many daily disappointments for years on end and you just have to keep showing up to fight like nothing happened.
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Yes, we did shut down Salesforce a year ago, as we have many SaaS providers—an internal estimate is about 1,200 SaaS shut down. No, I don't think it is the end of Salesforce; might be the opposite. Here is what actually happened and how/why we originally intended to NOT share
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The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes. Outrage is a signal to speak. Disappointment is a cue to persist. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
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August 2024 was the hottest August on record, and the last 3 months comprised the hottest summer since modern recordkeeping began. August 2024 is the 15th month in a row of record-breaking monthly temperatures. https://t.co/EowVYqt20g
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Believe it or not, in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material. It was taken off the shelves in 1951.
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(NEW EPISODE) He Sold A Company To Dell And Has Now Raised $70 Million To Make Relevant Internal Information Available To Enterprise Teams @ricknucci @Guru_HQ
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@emergencecap @Accel @ThriveCapital @FirstMarkCap @SalesforceVC #entrepreneur #business #success
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Rick Nucci journeyed from founding Boomi to launching Guru. He is a serial entrepreneur who successfully navigated scaling a business.
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4. Get Fans Involved Fred includes fans in his process. → Voting on tracks to release → Asking fans to suggest venues → Video recaps from the dancefloor → Cultivating community-generated content Don't serve fans content Make them part of the journey
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One of the things I’ve noticed about great leaders is they are great followers. Bill Walton embodied that. I got to know Bill through his writing the Forward to our Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead book. Over the years he told me endless stories about his three
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Having something for everyone gets you acquisition. Having everything for someone gets you retention. Choose wisely.
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Welcoming the PMF24 lineup - 21 bands, 7 nights, 1 scene. Tickets on sale Friday, May 24.
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