Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
The bottom line for me is that forecasts can’t be right often enough to be worthwhile.
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
When the dominant medium of an age shifts, the nature of power shifts with it.
Eugene Wei • Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
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
In an ideal world, corporate executives would allocate capital to maximize long-term value per share. But, for reasons that are mostly understandable, there’s a lot of evidence that they fall short of this objective
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
Once we believe something, the mistakes we make often serve to preserve our view