Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom
What are you compulsive about? Is it possible to put that at the center of the platform’s activity?
Speculative investment, with ambitious but inexact expectations of financial return, is important fuel for founders who build the unknown future. However, investors and operators are often deeply misaligned: investors think in bets, while operators think in consequences. The relationship is tense, but can be explosively productive.
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
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