Luca Gualco


'Luca Gualco 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.
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.