Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom
from The Attention Diet by Mark Manson
- Once we believe something, the mistakes we make often serve to preserve our view
from Who Is On the Other Side? by Michael Mauboussin
- For the “I don’t know” school, on the other hand, the word – especially when dealing with the macro-future – is “guarded.” Its adherents generally believe you can’t know the future; you don’t have to know the future; and the proper goal is to do the best possible job of investing in the absence of that knowledge.
from Attention Required! | Cloudflare by Howard Marks
People buying premium or even super-premium like to justify every dollar by a return on investment. Premium means pay more, get more in functional benefits. Luxury is elsewhere: it signals the capacity of the buyer to transcend needs, functions, or objective benefits.
from LVMH and the Luxury Strategy by Punch Card Investor
- Behavioral inefficiencies may be at once the most persistent source of opportunity and the most difficult to capture
from Who Is On the Other Side? by Michael Mauboussin
in a world with infinite information and opportunity, you don’t grow by knowing or doing more , you grow by the ability to correctly focus on less
from The Attention Diet by Mark Manson
- There is a large random factor in the success of any company. So the guys you end up reading about in the papers are the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery.
from How to Make Wealth by Paul Graham
Capital allocation should support a company’s strategic goals. Capital allocation should start with an assessment and approval of strategies and then determine which projects support the strategies.
from Capital Allocation by Dan Callahan