Enjoying Every Moment of Value Creation: HouseAmp CEO Rick Hennessey

To chat with Rick Hennessey is to be transported to many worlds at once.?His remarks are never anodyne, his views never conformist.?Hennessey oscillates between technology and sales, strategy and tactics, vision and details, almost as though he sees them all converging into a singularity.?An entrepreneur in every corpuscle, he exudes energy and—and this is what is most important- happiness.

Corporate America is bound by a fundamental contradiction- on the one hand, there is increasing talk of people-first organizations that respect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and on the other, there are increasing numbers of stories of tyrannical founders wielding their power like weapons and exploding like neutron bombs in their organizations.?To a one, these dictatorial players are unhappy and make others feel the same way.

Not so with Hennessey and HouseAmp.?Discussions with members of his team yield one constant:?Excitement.?Startups are exciting environments; especially ones that have clear goals and are intuitively value-laden.?And values-laden.

Hennessey is a successful founder, with 5 profitable exits.?His peers suggest that he doesn’t need to work for money, but that he does need to work for purpose.?That sentiment is clear in everything he says- “HouseAmp was developed originally as a way to help people access their dreams via equity in their homes.?That simple.?Along the way, we created a viable and growing business around that theme,” he adds.

HouseAmp’s offerings bring together homeowners, agents, brokers, and service providers in one symbiotic architecture.?It aligns their needs and outcomes.?The results to date have been spectacular, and literally life-changing for many.?

Creating value should be a sine-qua-non of all businesses; alas it is not.?But of HouseAmp and Rick Hennessey, all one can say is that the entire ecosystem enjoys every moment of value creation.