Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
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.
Alex Danco • Debt is Coming
Your primary objective should thus be to maintain the right filters for people and ideas so that the delicate ecosystem in your head is as resilient and flexible as possible
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
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
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
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
Loose capital allows the less qualified to participate in each market.
Bill Gurley • On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd
That's the real point of startups. Ideally, you are getting together with a group of other people who also want to work a lot harder, and get paid a lot more, than they would in a big company.