Matt Goldstein
@GoldsteinMatt_
Dad, husband, writer, fighter, gamer, nerd, finance. Not always in that order. @calmfund. Recovering workaholic.
Calm Company Fund
Imagine if you could invest in post-revenue, early-stage companies with:
• reasonable valuations
• the risk profile of growth equity
• asymmetric upside of venture
• no correlation to your existing VC allocations
A brief 🧵👇
twitter.com/mylesdanielsen/status/1587080836788105216?s=46&t=lHgikeSfx6X5wwjMES6pvQ
Better way to build.
Founders: if you take a $13M valuation pre-seed…
You are *by definition* signing up to chase insane targets.
Your idea isn’t worth that much *at* pre-seed, sorry to say. That’s a VC’s entry ticket for a low % theoretical future.
In no way commenting on Nichole, to be clear.
twitter.com/nwischoff/status/1586043854817734656?s=46&t=uZuPUggfqrZS6KeXoTwPjg
Set realistic, achievable goals, grow thoughtfully, and maintain optionality.
Unless your idea is necessarily a moon shot, the odds are *very good* you’ll see more success not dumping rocket fuel into your business.
Fundamentally sound, sane strategies are the way.
Therapy changed my life
Therapy is the best investment I’ve ever made.
It’s paid dividends every week for the last 5 years.
Here’s the Top 3 most impactful things I’ve learned from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) 🧵:
1. Action is everything.
The core of CBT is the 🔄 of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
They’re interwoven. It’s most difficult to control your emotions and thoughts, so the highest leverage step is to change your behavior.
Take small, achievable actions.
Orson Welles: a man ahead of his time
Thinking a lot today about what Orson Welles had to say in 1946.
We must simply say "no" to those who hate others.
"Tomorrow's democracy discriminates against discrimination."
Enter Orson Welles, a man ahead of his time:
"We must each day earn what we own.
A healthy man owes to the sick all that he can do for them. An educated man owes to the ignorant all that he can do for them. A free man owes to the world's slaves all that he can do for them
Unreasonably Angry
Let’s discuss how thoroughly dumb this take on @taylorswift13 is, a brief 🧵: