Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
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
The rule in this case is that macro forecasts rarely lead to exceptional performance. For me, the exceptionalness of the success stories proves the general truth of that assertion.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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 primary job of senior management is to create value over the long term.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
If you buy or sell a security and expect an excess return, you should have a good answer to the question “Who is on the other side?” In effect, you are specifying the source of your advantage, or edge.
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
Debt can also scare off growth equity funds, who don’t like not being the most senior money in the pref stack.
Alex Danco • Debt is Coming
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