Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
People buying premium or even super-premium like to justify every dollar by a return on investment. Premium means pay more, get more in functional benefits. Luxury is elsewhere: it signals the capacity of the buyer to transcend needs, functions, or objective benefits.
Punch Card Investor • LVMH and the Luxury Strategy
I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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
When the dominant medium of an age shifts, the nature of power shifts with it.
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Tobias Huberdeliverypdf.ssrn.comThe 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
Achieving profitability is the most liberating action a startup can accomplish.
Bill Gurley • On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd
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.