Ep.278 – COO, Vintory, Randy Bonds

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Our guest today is COO Alliance Member and Chief Operating Officer for Vintory, Randy Bonds. Since grade school Randy has had a passion for entrepreneurship. For more than 30 years he has been building his skills by owning and operating eight companies all focused on travel and tourism. Founding, scaling, and selling five companies taught […]

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0:00.0	Just understanding the lanes and the strengths and weaknesses and the reasons why each is in its place has opened up my eyes in a big way.
0:09.9	All the other companies I've been involved in, I founded most of them and they were much
0:14.4	smaller and I realized the limitations of those were because I didn't have this structure in place.
0:20.8	So it's kind of opened up my eyes.
0:22.2	I wish I would have known this, you know, 15, 20 years ago when I was doing
0:25.3	some other businesses that were, but it really just clicked with this one and we've been able to scale it a lot quicker
0:30.5	than in previous businesses I've been involved in. Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance, and brought to you by its founder, Cameron Herald.
0:46.6	In the Second in Command Podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,
0:52.4	and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.
0:56.0	And now here's your host, Cameron Herald. All right, so today we've got CEO Alliance member Randy Bonds from Venturi.
1:09.4	He is on the podcast and he's going to be talking to us about moving from the CEO role into the COA. the focus as an adult and what he is now really focused on more in life as he's kind of gained the wisdom of time and how he actually works on work-life balance, talking about clear metrics inside of the organization and keeping focused, also how he's had to grow as a leader
1:34.6	and stay fairly operational as they've scaled up the company.
1:38.2	You're going to love the podcast.
1:39.5	See you on the inside.
1:40.4	You can also check it out on our YouTube channel, The Second and Command Podcast on YouTube as well.
1:48.5	So hey Randy, welcome to the Second Command podcast.
1:54.2	Well, thank you, Cameron.
1:55.3	It's absolutely wonderful to meet you.
1:57.2	And I appreciate this opportunity for sure.
2:00.2	Yeah, looking forward to learning from you
2:02.4	and then also looking forward to hanging out with you over the next three days as well.
2:06.3	You're actually attending our COO Connect event, which one of our COO Alliance events,
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