Mar 25, 2021
Nate Fick’s career has been eclectic, but with a common element
of demonstrating superior leadership abilities in a diverse array
of successful opportunities. Nate is currently a General Manager at
Elastic, having joined the firm with their acquisition of Endgame
where he served as CEO.
Graduating from Dartmouth, Nate took an unconventional path of
joining the military and serving as a USMC officer leading some of
the first U.S. troop deployments into Afghanistan and Iraq after
the September 11th terrorist attacks. His service in the military
is chronicled in his New York Times best selling book One Bullet
Away. The book was also a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,”
and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the
Decade.”
Nate also served as the head of the esteemed national security
focused non-profit think tank, the Center for a New American
Security and has had a ten year tenure as an operating partner at
Bessemer Venture Partners.
In this OODAcast, Nate shares
- His observations on leadership in a variety of roles
- Where the emerging threat landscape is going
- How we should focus on increasing the yield of our
cybersecurity initiatives with new technologies and approaches - Why he wrote his best-selling book
- What philosophy allowed him to adapt to change as a soldier
that carried forward into his business career
Podcast Version:
Additional Reading:
Meditations by Marcus
Aurelius
Drive: The Surprising Truth
About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
