Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Once we believe something, the mistakes we make often serve to preserve our view
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
When the dominant medium of an age shifts, the nature of power shifts with it.
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
Great capital allocators always have a sense of the difference between price and value in all of their businesses. And, as important, they are willing to act to build value when those gaps become large enough to overcome frictions such as taxes and fees.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
In the very early-stages of a company, especially during a fundraise, narratives rule everything and pseudosecrets are the dominant way to build a narrative.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
If you can't measure the value of the work done by individual employees, you can get close. You can measure the value of the work done by small groups.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
It’s hard to factor in a large number of considerations and especially to understand how a large number of things will interact (correlation is always the real stumper).
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase