Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
narratives and
Curation is a form of positional scarcity that we get whenever there’s an abundance of choice of something, and the average consumer needs help finding what they’d specifically like
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
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
I think of as each of us having built up an intangible asset over the previous chapters of our lives, a distributed reservoir of credibility that is held in trust by your friends, mentors, and former colleagues. Your task is now to convert that intangible asset into a tangible asset
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
That's the real point of startups. Ideally, you are getting together with a group of other people who also want to work a lot harder, and get paid a lot more, than they would in a big company.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
The primary job of senior management is to create value over the long term.
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
For the “I don’t know” school, on the other hand, the word – especially when dealing with the macro-future – is “guarded.” Its adherents generally believe you can’t know the future; you don’t have to know the future; and the proper goal is to do the best possible job of investing in the absence of that knowledge.