Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Firms should invest in innovation while cutting losses when a strategy is unlikely to pay off. This is an explicit recognition of the value of quitting
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
Why do we treat the Royal Family with such reverence? Because ceremony demands it. Sometimes status is a closed circle, and if you trace it you end up where you started. The very act of walking in that circle, though, closes it. The Royal Family has whatever power the people grant them.
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
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
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
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
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
A more suitable mindset is that capital is accessible but comes at a cost...
many executives act as if the cash that the business generates is essentially free. The right mindset is that all capital, whether from an internal or external source, has an opportunity cost.
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