Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
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
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
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 • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform - Graham Duncan Blog
markets—these sublime machines that synthesize beliefs and aggregate them into prices—instantiate a secularized version of the sacred
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
“What is the right amount of capital (and the right number of people) to have in this business in order to support the strategy that will create the most wealth?”182 The answer is based on the future and does not rule out reducing net investment when appropriate.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
As the bubble grows in scope, the contradiction becomes more visible, leading to a third common characteristic of bubbles: the bifurcation of viewpoints into totally-
positive or totally-negative
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Once we believe something, the mistakes we make often serve to preserve our view
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
