Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
Startups offer anyone a way to be in a situation with measurement and leverage.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
The bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
in a world with infinite information and opportunity, you don’t grow by knowing or doing more , you grow by the ability to correctly focus on less
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
Firms should invest in innovation while cutting losses when a strategy is unlikely to pay off. This is an explicit recognition of the value of quitting
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
What are you compulsive about? Is it possible to put that at the center of the platform’s activity?
Graham Duncan Blog • Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Platform
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
The last round is not the permanent price, and being private does not mean you get a free pass on scrutiny.