Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
The bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Tobias Huberdeliverypdf.ssrn.comStart-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
the best stories to tell are the ones that have been told over and over again, and the stories of competitive mimesis and of deification followed by scapegoating are the oldest and best of all
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
The 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
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
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
