Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
The bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Bernard himself continuously expresses that ‘creating desire’ is the most important part of what they are doing at LVMH
Punch Card Investor • LVMH and the Luxury Strategy
Once we believe something, the mistakes we make often serve to preserve our view
Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?
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
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
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”
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
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
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
the first and most important goal of an attention diet should be to consciously limit the number of distractions we’re exposed to
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
