Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Every bubble begins with something real, which inspires entirely too much fakery
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
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
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
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
People on the outside sometimes wonder why businesses with so few traditional assets seem to require so much financing. Well, they are accumulating assets: users are the new assets, and their use is what you’re out to monetize.Whatever your business model is, acquiring users is the new building factories.
Alex Danco • Debt is Coming
Loose capital allows the less qualified to participate in each market.
Bill Gurley • On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd
as the bubble grows, it becomes an increasingly pure bet on a revolution
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
A pseudosecret is a narrative about a next-order effect within your company its path towards world domination, and the future you believe in. It’s not the most obvious narrative, but is often the most important.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
the first and most important goal of an attention diet should be to consciously limit the number of distractions we’re exposed to