Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
How to Make Wealth
paulgraham.comIf 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
The frenetic build-up of bubbles and their violent collapse provides some of the purest examples of the mimetic process—they crystallize fear, hope, hype, overconfidence, or under-confidence
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
The bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Execution at each core inflection point of a business enables continual narrative growth, and pseudosecret belief vs. erosion and doubt because in the end, narratives and pseudosecrets only accrue value to their relevant companies if they eventually become truths.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
In the very early-stages of a company, especially during a fundraise, narratives rule everything and pseudosecrets are the dominant way to build a narrative.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
There is a large random factor in the success of any company. So the guys you end up reading about in the papers are the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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