Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
What are you compulsive about? Is it possible to put that at the center of the platform’s activity?
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
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
Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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
Start-ups of any kind are awash in ambiguity. It’s the founder’s responsibility to hold that ambiguity for everyone, which is often a lonely job.
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
markets—these sublime machines that synthesize beliefs and aggregate them into prices—instantiate a secularized version of the sacred
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Every bubble begins with something real, which inspires entirely too much fakery