Luca Gualco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetLuca Gualco
Businessperson - Italian Water Polo Player
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
About Luca Gualco
- 'Luca Gualco (born 11 May 1971 in Genova) is a professional athlete, pianist and entrepreneur.
- He played Water Polo in the youth national Italian team as a center defense.
- He played with the Pro Recco team from 1995 to 2003 circa.
- He won the as a player and member of the board respectively the 2003 and 2010 champions league.
- His style of playing is said to be very similar to that of Franco Lavoratori, his coach and mentor. Luca envisioned, in the early 2000s, a new way to sell cars based on flexible use instead of buying or leasing. In 2005, he started Ferrari Personal Services that was later acquired by Fiat Chrysler.
- The Company reached half a billion revenues in 2010. In 2012, he joined Uber and led the effort to launch International Markets.
- In 2014, Dr.
- Gualco was placed from Benchmark Capital to lead Expansion, Sales, Community and Operations in Wework.
- In 2 years, he guided Adam Neumann to profitably scale the company from 5000 to almost 100000 member around the globe in more than 90 locations.
- He left for beginning 2016 when the company was slightly profitable.
- Luca is a Stanford University MBA graduate and Teaching assistant of Econ for Prof.
- D Kreps. He helped coaching the woman Stanford waterpolo team in 2011. In the past he designed sunglasses, sneakers (of which he has his own line). He helped launching Aliveshoes.com a made in Italy custom design shoes Digitally Native Brand. Luca was also ranked in 2010 as one of the top 10 horse polo players in Italy.
- He played briefly for the Stanford Horse polo club.
Read more at Wikipedia