Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
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.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
The rule in this case is that macro forecasts rarely lead to exceptional performance. For me, the exceptionalness of the success stories proves the general truth of that assertion.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
In the very early-stages of a company, especially during a fundraise, narratives rule everything and pseudosecrets are the dominant way to build a narrative.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
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
Behavioral inefficiencies may be at once the most persistent source of opportunity and the most difficult to capture
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
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
You can’t charge a premium price for giving people what they expect, and you won’t ever have break-out products that way—the kinds of products that people line up around the block for.
Suzy Wetlaufer • The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH
Cash deals do better, on average, than deals funded with equity or a combination of cash and equity.36 The basic idea is that management of the buyer will finance a deal with cash if it thinks the stock of its company is undervalued and will use stock if it thinks it is overvalued. Cash deals also provide a higher payoff for the shareholders of the
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