Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Pseudosecrets allow people to:
- Feel like they know a secret about your company (Even better if you can make an investor think they figured this out themselves vs. being told).
- Be able to combat doubters in a way that feels intellectually dominant and non-obvious.
- Paint a narrative that makes the upside future that you believe in feel closer to a
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
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
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.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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
How to Make Wealth
paulgraham.comThere 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
To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
According to Kapferer, “luxury is superlative, not comparative”. The beauty of luxury is that no one can definitively say whether a Louis Vuitton bag is better than an Hermes bag because that concept doesn’t even make sense
Punch Card Investor • LVMH and the Luxury Strategy
For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says
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