Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
you demonstrated excellent curation ability, and that’s a high-status thing to have
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
The frenetic build-up of bubbles and their violent collapse provides some of the purest examples of the mimetic process—they crystallize fear, hope, hype, overconfidence, or under-confidence
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
If you can find the thing you do for its own sake, the compulsive piece of your process, and dial that up and up, beyond the imaginary ceiling for that activity you may be creating, my experience is the world comes to you for that thing and you massively outperform the others who don’t actually like hitting that particular ball.
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
The research shows that companies that are more proactive in their internal resource allocation generate a higher ROA than those that are more conservative.
There is also evidence that companies that are good at internal capital allocation are also effective at external allocation
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
It’s hard to factor in a large number of considerations and especially to understand how a large number of things will interact (correlation is always the real stumper).
