Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
When the dominant medium of an age shifts, the nature of power shifts with it.
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
“It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on.” -Amos Tversky
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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
The rule in this case is that macro forecasts rarely lead to exceptional performance. For me, the exceptionalness of the success stories proves the general truth of that assertion.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Many high achievers are compulsively exploring the world in search of something — some for truth, some for power, others for beauty — and I think it’s a disservice to yourself and your future partners to not orient your platform around the piece of investing that you really love. Embrace your funk.
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
The exceptional (sometimes criticized) margins at Louis Vuitton did not arise from excessively high prices, but from the removal of all costs and damages due to intermediaries. Louis Vuitton’s competitiveness
was therefore structural”
Punch Card Investor • LVMH and the Luxury Strategy
It’s hard to factor in a large number of considerations and especially to understand how a large number of things will interact (correlation is always the real stumper).
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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
Cash deals do better, on average, than deals funded with equity or a combination of cash and equity.36 The basic idea is that management of the buyer will finance a deal with cash if it thinks the stock of its company is undervalued and will use stock if it thinks it is overvalued. Cash deals also provide a higher payoff for the shareholders of the
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