Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Who wants transparency when you can have magic. Who wants prose when you can have poetry?
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
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
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
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Tobias Huberdeliverypdf.ssrn.comthe people around you will either protect or infringe on the climate within your skull.
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
as the bubble grows, it becomes an increasingly pure bet on a revolution
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
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markets cannot be perfectly efficient because there is a cost to gathering information and reflecting it in asset prices and therefore there must be a proportionate benefit in the form of excess returns
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
Beyond deliberately architecting the people who surround you, the best way to control your mindset is to “own” the way you speak to yourself, what sports psychologists call your “self-talk”