Rick Zullo
@Rick_Zullo
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Founder / Managing Partner at @EqualVentures - Investing in the future of climate, insurance, retail and supply chain
New York, NY
Joined June 2012
1) “Moats” are a term thrown around a lot in startup circles . In reality, companies don’t build moats, they build "CAPABILITIES" that yield them . We’ve created a simplified, but exhaustive framework for capabilities that create company defining moats .
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When my wife lost her mentor a few months ago, I wrote in our last LP letter that “Everyone deals with tragedy in different ways, but I think the best way we can honor those that have passed is to ensure that the life they lived inspires us to do something even better with our.
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Last week, we lost my dad. After 18 months battling cancer and 42 days in the ICU, he passed peacefully surrounded by his family. While the last 6 weeks have been so difficult, I'm thankful we had that time together. Live life with every minute you have.
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The very 1st investment I made at @EqualVentures was in Ryan and the team at @ThreeFlowTech. Its been an amazing ride since, seeing them build one of the most transformative companies in the employee benefits arena. Lots of incredible lessons/stories in this one with @TurnerNovak.
Episode #98: Inside the $2 Trillion Employee Benefits Market. Ryan Sachtjen is the Co-founder and CEO of Threeflow, building software for employee benefits brokers and insurance carriers. We do a deep dive into the nearly $2 trillion dollar employee benefits market, including
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We believe the secret to industry transformation is bringing conviction, capital and connection together. No event better demonstrates the potential of bringing those forces together than the @EqualVentures Climate Capital Summit. I hope you’ll join us for our best event yet.
🌍 Announcing the 2025 Climate Capital Summit 🌍. We’re back—and there’s never been a more important time to get together! @EqualVentures @Rick_Zullo @00hughes_sam .
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Equality isn’t about taking from one segment of the population to give to another . It’s about giving everyone the opportunity for economic mobility. Higher taxes, less police and less market rate housing only mean one thing - less opportunity for economic mobility for anyone.
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📢📢📢. Excited to welcome @00hughes_sam to @EqualVentures as our 1st Platform Manager. We've been blown away by our experience w/ Sam and know she'll be invaluable in helping us bring community, conviction and capital together unlike anyone else. 👏👏👏.
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Been a tough couple of weeks and gonna be a rough road ahead, but grateful to celebrate 13 years of marriage with the one and only @lauren_zullo and our two munchkins - gotta seize the moments when you can!
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BIG FAVOR TO ASK . My dad has now been in the ICU for >2 weeks and on a ventilator for 12 days. He’s fighting leukemia and ILD/IPS. He’s going into surgery on Monday. Today he was able to use a pen/clipboard and watch some TV. All he wanted to do was to watch @espn and hear what.
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Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve largely worked out of the ICU. My dad has been there for the last 12 days and on a ventilator for the last 9…it’s been a tough time for me and my family. In preparation for our AGM today, last night I spent time with our founders, LPs and employees,.
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Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked with folks who are amazing (top 1%) and those who aren’t. Competence, attitude and work ethic are important, but above all else ask yourself “Will they do the right thing even when it’s the hard thing?”. Everything else is solvable.
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Folks who say moats are mythical simply don’t understand what a moat really is. There are plenty of monopolistic businesses that have customer captivity, network effects or other business characteristics that enable them to generate persistent above market ROE/FCF - that’s a.
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This is the single greatest flaw of VC. Huge topic at a VC dinner I was at last night and while I don’t universally agree, sometimes doing the right thing (what helps you “win”) is NOT the popular thing. We see board members who are happy to watch a company implode, rather than.
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LP asked me what VCs we see as good sources of dealflow. Reality is that if a VC is sending you a deal, they’re likely sending it to a lot of others. FBOW, the best dealflow we’ve seen comes from direct relationships with the founders or outbound engagement based on our thesis.
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Seed stage founder taking the over-priced TS from a multistage firm 👀
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Acts of kindness require such little effort and often have outsized impacts. Same goes for acts of malice. The folks who win in the long-term focus on the acts of kindness.
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An incredible team of incredible humans. Very well deserved and a huge win for both the NYC VC ecosystem and enterprise seed stage founders everywhere!.
🚨 Big news: We’ve raised $160M for @Work_Bench Fund IV to back Seed-stage founders with massive enterprise ambitions. Enterprise is in our DNA and with Fund IV, we’re quadrupling down.👇
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Hosting 400+ insurance leaders tomorrow for @EqualVentures’ 1st ever Insurance Capital Summit. CEOs/Presidents of ~100b of revenue and investors of ~100b of AUM on stage. Literally trillions of dollars of insurance capital in the room….
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May all of us approach our work days with the same enthusiasm that my 3 year old has for tee ball
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VCs do a tremendous amount of networking, but the older I get, the more I believe that the depth of your network matters so much more than the breadth. Who are the folks you can count on?.Who are the ones that you can be vulnerable with?.Who are the folks who will tell you hard
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