Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
the second goal of the Attention Diet is to find highly nutritious sources of information and relationships and then build our lives around them
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
Capital allocation is ultimately about assessing opportunities and executing on the ones that are attractive. As such, it requires a willingness to be a buyer or a seller given the circumstances.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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
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
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
Great capital allocators always have a sense of the difference between price and value in all of their businesses. And, as important, they are willing to act to build value when those gaps become large enough to overcome frictions such as taxes and fees.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
Curation is a form of positional scarcity that we get whenever there’s an abundance of choice of something, and the average consumer needs help finding what they’d specifically like