Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
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
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Tobias Huberdeliverypdf.ssrn.comThe primary job of senior management is to create value over the long term.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
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
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
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
narratives and
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase