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Engineering Leader·Venture Partner·Angel Investor·Advisor·Technologist

Building for humanity
Investing in incredible humans

Portrait of Rick Boone

Two decades of engineering, and engineering leadership, at Meta, Uber and Carta. Today I invest in, advise, and build alongside founders and operators shaping what comes next.

I'm driven by strategy, execution and culture — and am most alive alongside exceptional founders and builders who treat all three as inseparable. That's where my best work happens.

What keeps me obsessed is technology, humans, and human behavior — how technology reshapes us, how decisions get made, how teams cohere, how leaders grow. I find that interesting answers to novel and complex problems often have unexpected origins, so I live by multidisciplinary thinking. It's the lens I bring to engineering, to investing, and to every conversation in between.

Curriculum Vitae

Full CV →
Current

Venture Partner

Antler

Angel Investor

Independent

Founder + Executive Coach

Independent

Previous

VP, Infrastructure Engineering

Carta

Strategic Advisor to VP, Infrastructure Engineering

Uber

ML + Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Uber

Founding Engineer, SRE

Uber

Production Engineer

Facebook / Meta

Education

B.S. Computer Science

University of Southern California

HS Diploma

Stuyvesant High School

Coaching + Advisory

How I work →

The technical and the human aren't separate problems. Strategy, execution, and behavior live as one fabric. That's the lens I bring to my work with founders, executives, and senior operators.

Founder

Partnership + guidance for those taking their company - and themselves - from 0 to 1.

Executive

Sharpening the strategy, judgment, and leadership capabilities of senior executives.

Career

Guiding individuals through growth, transitions, and the path to senior + staff-level impact.

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Vantage (Market Analysis Tool)

shipped
last touched 2026-09-07

An AI research partner that scans the market for blind spots, sources its own news, and pressure-tests my theses — grounded in my real holdings and hardened by pre-registered backtests.

2026-09-07 →Two pre-registered studies on the leader cohort — band width refuted (lowering the bar measures as harmful); cohort narrowness unresolved.
Wake (Portfolio Analysis Tool) screenshot

Wake (Portfolio Analysis Tool)

shipped
last touched 2026-10-10

Tracks my complete holdings and trading history, replays past decisions to turn hindsight into sharper ones, and exposes the tax-lot data Vantage reads to plan future ones.

2026-10-10 →Ship the Today landing tab — hero, movers, contribution, composition, and a rule-driven attention panel.

Let's Connect

Whether you're building something new, looking for a thought partner, or exploring an investment — I'd love to hear from you.