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
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
“It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on.” -Amos Tversky
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
What are you compulsive about? Is it possible to put that at the center of the platform’s activity?
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
Speculative investment, with ambitious but inexact expectations of financial return, is important fuel for founders who build the unknown future. However, investors and operators are often deeply misaligned: investors think in bets, while operators think in consequences. The relationship is tense, but can be explosively productive.
Alex Danco • Debt is Coming
According to Kapferer, “luxury is superlative, not comparative”. The beauty of luxury is that no one can definitively say whether a Louis Vuitton bag is better than an Hermes bag because that concept doesn’t even make sense
Punch Card Investor • LVMH and the Luxury Strategy
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