Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
The primary job of senior management is to create value over the long term.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
the second goal of the Attention Diet is to find highly nutritious sources of information and relationships and then build our lives around them
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
The last round is not the permanent price, and being private does not mean you get a free pass on scrutiny.
Bill Gurley • On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd
Pseudosecrets allow people to:
- Feel like they know a secret about your company (Even better if you can make an investor think they figured this out themselves vs. being told).
- Be able to combat doubters in a way that feels intellectually dominant and non-obvious.
- Paint a narrative that makes the upside future that you believe in feel closer to a
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
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.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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
I think of as each of us having built up an intangible asset over the previous chapters of our lives, a distributed reservoir of credibility that is held in trust by your friends, mentors, and former colleagues. Your task is now to convert that intangible asset into a tangible asset