Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
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
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
you demonstrated excellent curation ability, and that’s a high-status thing to have
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
the first and most important goal of an attention diet should be to consciously limit the number of distractions we’re exposed to
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
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 bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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
As a founder, the most valuable optionality you have is the equity you haven’t sold, and the dilution you haven’t taken. But the second most valuable optionality you can have is a valuation that’s not too high.