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[Music] hi everybody thank you so much I'm so |
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[音乐] 大家好,非常感谢你们,我非常感谢 |
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excited to be here my name is Katherine mchu and I've spent the last four and a |
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很高兴来到这里,我的名字是 Katherine mchu,我在过去的四年里度过了 |
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half years building a company called The Muse uh we provide expert advice for |
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半年时间建立了一家名为 The Muse 的公司,呃,我们为以下方面提供专家建议 |
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every career decision and you can think of us a little bit like a marketplace |
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每一个职业决定,你都可以把我们想象成一个市场 |
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with 50 million Millennials on one side and 500 companies on the other for |
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一侧有 5000 万千禧一代,另一侧有 500 家公司 |
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individuals we help people find a new job find an answer to their career |
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我们帮助人们找到新工作的个人找到他们职业生涯的答案 |
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problem or question and also just find a a way to learn a new professional skill |
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问题或问题,也只是找到一种学习新专业技能的方法 |
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or sometimes just get a supportive ear and for companies we create a really |
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或者有时只是得到支持的耳朵,我们为公司创造了一个真正的 |
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really great way for them to hire and retain talent but I don't want to talk |
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这对他们来说确实是雇用和留住人才的好方法,但我不想谈论 |
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too much about the Muse today I want to talk a little bit about what I've |
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今天关于缪斯的话题太多了,我想谈谈我所经历的 |
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learned over the past four and a half years and in particular some of the |
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在过去的四年半里学到的东西,特别是一些 |
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let's say misperceptions um or outright that I think exists sometimes |
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让我们说一些我认为有时存在的误解 |
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in the tech startup world and in Silicon Valley um after after sort of coming |
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在科技初创企业世界和硅谷,嗯,之后又来了 |
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through white commentator actually standing on this stage two years ago |
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通过两年前实际上站在这个舞台上的白人评论员 |
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there are so many things that I wish I'd known um so many things that I think |
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有很多事情我希望我知道 嗯有很多事情我想 |
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would have smoothed the path or made me even more excited um so kind of I want |
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会让道路变得平坦或者让我更加兴奋,嗯,我想要 |
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to kick into the four big things that I'll talk through today the uh the |
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开始我今天要讨论的四件大事 |
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lessons I learned in terms of keeping your focus and building a company that |
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我在保持专注和建立一家公司方面学到的经验教训 |
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lasts so starting with first the first is that people love to say it doesn't |
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持续如此,从第一个开始,第一个是人们喜欢说它没有 |
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get easier um this is something that I think I heard heard a thousand times in |
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变得更容易,嗯,我想我已经听过一千遍了 |
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the early days and the truth is um the beginning of the music's existence was |
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早期,事实是,音乐存在的开始是 |
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really really hard I was cold emailing 800 different student groups trying to |
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真的真的很难,我很冷淡地给 800 个不同的学生团体发电子邮件,试图 |
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get our first 5,000 20,000 100,000 users |
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获得我们的前 5,000 20,000 100,000 位用户 |
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when we graduated from YC I went out and |
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当我们从 YC 毕业时,我出去了 |
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pitched uh over 150 VC firms and got 148 NOS in six months now that takes a toll |
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六个月内向超过 150 家风险投资公司进行了推介,并获得了 148 家 NOS,这造成了损失 |
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and yet every day I was kind of fighting for my life in hand-to-hand combat |
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但每天我都在肉搏战中为自己的生命而战 |
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trying to make something of the company trying to essentially avert startup |
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试图让公司有所作为,试图从根本上避免启动 |
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death and people kept coming and telling me Oh you think it's so hard now just |
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死亡和人们不断来告诉我哦,你认为现在很难 |
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wait it doesn't get any easier but guess what sometimes it actually kind of does |
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等等,事情并没有变得更容易,但猜猜有时它实际上是做什么的 |
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I I I think that it's true that it never ever ever gets easy in fact it's really |
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我我我认为这是真的,它永远不会变得容易事实上它真的 |
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hard as you get bigger as usim was saying the the responsibility goes up |
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正如 USIM 所说,随着你变得越来越大,责任也会越来越大 |
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the stress can get bigger the decisions you're making have bigger and bigger |
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压力会越来越大,你所做的决定也会越来越大 |
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consequences but at the same time the risk of death is not quite so imminent |
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后果,但同时死亡的风险并不那么迫在眉睫 |
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for most people and most companies now for example if there's a big challenge |
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例如,对于现在的大多数人和大多数公司来说,如果存在巨大的挑战 |
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to the Muse I have a team of Executives smart people that I've hired and |
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缪斯 我雇佣了一支由聪明人组成的高管团队 |
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recruited to the company with my co-founder that we can rely on to help |
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与我的联合创始人一起加入我们可以信赖的公司 |
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solve a problem with us for example if one of those people then has to leave |
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与我们一起解决问题,例如,如果其中一个人必须离开 |
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for a medical reason or God forbid they take a new job it's it's a bummer it's |
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出于医疗原因或者上帝禁止他们接受新工作,这真是太糟糕了 |
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really disappointing but it doesn't necessarily kill you and so I think for |
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真的很令人失望,但它并不一定会杀了你,所以我想 |
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me um just realizing that yes the challenges keep going and yes it's |
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我嗯只是意识到,是的,挑战仍在继续,是的,这是 |
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always going to be hard but it does it does in some ways I think get a little |
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总是会很困难,但它确实在某些方面确实如此,我认为得到了一点 |
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bit easier was really motivating to realize early on um and as I like to |
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轻松一点真的很激励我尽早意识到,正如我喜欢的那样 |
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joke with the current team you know everything we've built so far was really |
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和现在的团队开玩笑,你知道我们迄今为止构建的一切都是真的 |
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built on a foundation of Blood Sweat tears and ramen and now sometimes I eat |
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建立在血汗泪水和拉面的基础上,现在有时我会吃 |
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in restaurants um so I think uh that's that's kind of the first big point but |
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在餐馆,嗯,所以我认为,这是第一个要点,但是 |
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it does uh it does bring me straight to the second lesson which is focus and in |
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确实,呃,它确实让我直接进入第二课,即重点和内容 |
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fact as the risk of imminent startup death goes down the challenge of |
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事实上,随着初创企业即将死亡的风险降低了挑战 |
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figuring out whether you're focusing on the right things goes |
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弄清楚你是否专注于正确的事情 |
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up focus is so hard because there's so many things competing for your time and |
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集中注意力是如此困难,因为有太多事情在争夺你的时间 |
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attention and in the next 10 minutes I couldn't possibly begin to tell each one |
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注意,在接下来的 10 分钟内我不可能开始告诉每一个人 |
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of you how to decide what's the most important thing to focus on but I do |
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你们如何决定要关注的最重要的事情是什么,但我知道 |
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think it's important to look at focus by |
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认为通过以下方式查看焦点很重要 |
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the stage of your company and constantly assess what are the biggest things |
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您公司所处的阶段并不断评估什么是最重要的事情 |
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preventing me from growing and the biggest risks that could ultimately kill |
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阻止我成长以及最终可能致命的最大风险 |
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us for us two stories from the musa's early days that were really instructive |
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对我们来说,穆萨早期的两个故事非常有启发性 |
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um one was that when the Muse was really small we focused a lot on our user base |
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嗯,其中之一是,当 Muse 还很小的时候,我们非常关注我们的用户群 |
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growing our user B base creating a product that people absolutely loved and |
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扩大我们的用户 B 基础,创造出人们绝对喜爱的产品, |
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yet there was one point at the end of 2013 where we realized that we had been |
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然而,在 2013 年底的某个时刻,我们意识到我们已经 |
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so focused on the fact that our users were emailing us telling us the Muse |
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如此专注于我们的用户通过电子邮件告诉我们缪斯的事实 |
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changed my life I absolutely love your product this is the best thing I've ever |
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改变了我的生活我非常喜欢你们的产品这是我经历过的最好的事情 |
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seen that we actually hadn't really been spending enough attention on the fact |
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发现我们实际上并没有真正对这个事实给予足够的关注 |
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that our overall growth had slowed our Revenue line had slowed and suddenly we |
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我们的整体增长放缓了,我们的收入线也放缓了,突然我们 |
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were getting uncomfortably close to having to fundraise again and even |
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令人不安的是,我们即将再次筹款,甚至 |
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though people loved our company and they were telling us every day none of the |
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尽管人们喜欢我们的公司并且他们每天都告诉我们没有一个 |
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numbers were moving in the right direction and we had to have a really |
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数字正朝着正确的方向发展,我们必须有一个真正的 |
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tough moment as a company where we looked at what was at what was going on |
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作为一家公司的艰难时刻,我们审视正在发生的事情 |
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and we said if we don't start focusing on the things that matter on moving our |
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我们说过,如果我们不开始关注那些对我们的移动至关重要的事情 |
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growth on figuring out Revenue we're going to be the most loved startup that |
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增长取决于收入,我们将成为最受欢迎的初创公司 |
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nobody ever gets to use anymore because it's dead I think figuring out that core |
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没有人再使用它了,因为它已经死了我想弄清楚那个核心 |
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and understanding that just because growing your user base and creating |
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并理解这一点只是因为扩大了您的用户群并创造了 |
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something that your users want is consistently going to be important |
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用户想要的东西始终很重要 |
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throughout the life of your startup and it may be the most number one important |
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在你的创业公司的整个生命周期中,它可能是最重要的 |
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thing for a period of time doesn't mean that will always be the most important |
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某件事持续一段时间并不意味着它永远是最重要的 |
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thing and for us it was time to shift into hiring a sales leader figuring out |
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对我们来说,是时候聘请一位销售主管来解决这个问题了 |
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our pricing and our Revenue model and yes continuing to build that great user |
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我们的定价和收入模式,是的,继续建立优秀的用户 |
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experience but also putting the company around it that would allow us to deliver |
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经验,同时也让公司围绕它,这将使我们能够交付 |
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that going forward the other example was actually from White combinator um when |
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接下来的另一个例子实际上来自 White 组合器,当 |
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my co-founder and I got into y combinator we were so so excited that we |
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我和我的联合创始人进入了 y Combinator 我们非常兴奋 |
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instantly started dreaming up the best possible version of our first product we |
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立即开始构思我们的第一个产品的最佳版本 |
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knew we wanted to create a photo and video company profile that would let |
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知道我们想要创建一个照片和视频公司简介,让 |
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people sort of see behind the scenes of companies let them get a little bit of |
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人们可以看到公司幕后的情况,让他们了解一点 |
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an inside view and yet because we were so excited and so ready to sort of jump |
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内部视图,但因为我们非常兴奋,准备好跳跃 |
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out of the gate with this amazing product we initially proposed something |
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有了这个令人惊叹的产品,我们最初提出了一些建议 |
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that had all of these bells and whistles |
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拥有所有这些花里胡哨的东西 |
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it had badges it pulled in data from all of these different sources it was going |
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它有徽章,它从所有这些不同来源提取数据 |
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to be incredible and beautiful and Incredibly incredibly difficult to build |
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令人难以置信的美丽,而且建造起来极其困难 |
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and the very first meeting we had with one of the YC Partners we walked in and |
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我们与其中一位 YC 合作伙伴进行的第一次会面 |
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we started excitedly scribbling it on the Whiteboard and he cut into us after |
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我们开始兴奋地在白板上乱涂乱画,然后他就切入了我们的视线 |
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just a couple of minutes and said you'll never get this out the door just |
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只需几分钟,并说你永远不会把它带出去 |
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launch already and that was an important moment for us that again in that |
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已经发射了,这对我们来说是一个重要的时刻 |
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particular moment it wasn't about focusing on the perfect product or the |
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在特定的时刻,它并不是专注于完美的产品或 |
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absolute perfect expression of our massive Vision but it was about getting |
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我们宏大愿景的绝对完美表达,但它是为了获得 |
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something out the door getting it into the market and focusing on getting |
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一些东西进入市场并专注于获得 |
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feedback and iterating now once you have figured out |
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一旦你弄清楚了,立即反馈并迭代 |
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sort of the early version of your product you're starting to focus on the |
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您开始关注的产品的早期版本 |
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right things I think one of the next big important things that a lot of people |
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我认为正确的事情是很多人认为下一件重要的事情 |
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miss out on and that I think has taken up a lot more of my time that I realized |
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错过了,我认为这占用了我更多的时间,我意识到 |
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it would two years or more ago is culture um so people like to joke about |
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这将是两年或更长时间前的文化,所以人们喜欢开玩笑 |
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culture it's having a moment in the valley right now everyone's talking |
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文化正在山谷中流行,现在每个人都在谈论 |
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about is culture important when is it important what does it look like how do |
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关于文化是否重要 何时重要 文化是什么样子 怎样做 |
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you invest in it and I think that for an early stage |
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你投资它,我认为在早期阶段 |
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company it can be really tempting to relegate culture to that sort of back |
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公司确实很容易将文化置于这种背景之下 |
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pile because like I was talking about earlier culture is probably never going |
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一堆,因为就像我在谈论早期文化可能永远不会消失 |
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to be the number one imminent risk of Death to Your startup and yet if you |
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成为你的初创公司面临的第一大迫在眉睫的死亡风险,但如果你 |
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want to build a business that lasts I think it's one of the most important |
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想要建立一个持久的企业,我认为这是最重要的之一 |
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things to think about when you're two people when you're 10 people when you're |
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当你是两个人时,当你是 10 个人时,当你是 |
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25 and more um The Muse Grew From about 12 people two years ago when I was up on |
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25 及更多 um The Muse 从两年前大约 12 个人成长而来,当时我还处于上升期 |
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the stage uh to over 80 now and I've learned a lot of lessons in the interim |
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现在舞台已经超过80了,在此期间我学到了很多教训 |
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ultimately I think culture can be broken down into two pieces how you hire and |
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最终我认为文化可以分为两部分:你如何招聘和 |
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attract people and then how you behave once people are there on the hiring |
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吸引人才,然后是当人们来招聘时你的表现如何 |
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front when we were about 25 people we actually set out and wrote down a list |
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当我们大约有 25 个人的时候,我们实际上列出并写下了一份清单 |
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of our six core values at the Muse and for us every single time we interview |
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我们在缪斯以及我们每次采访时的六大核心价值观 |
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someone they are tested against all six of those values to make sure that we're |
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他们接受了所有六个价值观的测试,以确保我们 |
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not using I think there's a sort of fake uh culture screen which is would I |
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不使用我认为有一种假的呃文化屏幕,我会吗 |
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want to get a beer with this person I think that can be overly simplistic you |
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想和这个人喝杯啤酒 我认为这可能过于简单化了 |
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can actually miss out on incredible candidates who are just different from |
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实际上可能会错过那些与自己不同的令人难以置信的候选人 |
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you by applying that but for us it's do they stack up against this list of |
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你可以通过应用它,但对我们来说,它们是否符合这个列表 |
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values that we think are important for the long-term future of the Muse um one |
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我们认为对博物馆的长期未来很重要的价值观 |
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of the most sort of well-known of those you might have seen it on our job |
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您可能在我们的工作中见过的最知名的人 |
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descriptions is no um people love to joke about that they're like |
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描述不是嗯人们喜欢开玩笑说他们就像 |
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yeah yeah yeah you say that but you know a lot of companies say that and that's |
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是的,是的,是的,你这么说,但你知道很多公司都这么说,那就是 |
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true ultimately culture is tough choices |
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真正的最终文化是艰难的选择 |
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culture is needing that hire looking for |
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文化需要招聘人才 |
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that one person who's going to solve the biggest problem for your company's |
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将为您的公司解决最大问题的人 |
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existence and finally finding someone who has every skill you need who has a |
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存在并最终找到一个拥有您所需的所有技能的人 |
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pedigree in a background that will make your investor |
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背景血统将使您的投资者 |
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Swoon and that kind of might be a jerk and deciding not to hire them and keep |
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晕倒了,那种人可能是个混蛋,决定不雇用他们并保留他们 |
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bleeding and keep looking because you realize that the impact of one really |
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流血并继续寻找,因为你意识到一个人的影响确实 |
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bad person is far more important than their behavior and that talks Behavior |
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坏人远比他们的行为更重要,这就是行为 |
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speds to the rest of your team I also think once you have people |
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快速发送给你团队的其他成员 我也认为一旦你有了人 |
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in it's important to be of honest and authentic about what your core values |
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诚实和真实地表达你的核心价值观非常重要 |
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actually are and what your culture is um notice I don't say culture is what you |
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实际上是什么以及你的文化是什么,注意我并不是说文化就是你的文化 |
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say it is I think a lot of people love to put culture up on a wall but culture |
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我想很多人喜欢把文化挂在墙上,但是文化 |
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is how you behave when no one's watching culture is how the founders behave how |
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是你在无人关注时的行为方式 文化是创始人的行为方式 |
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the executives behave and it's really important I think to not um I guess to |
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高管们的行为举止非常重要,我认为不要,嗯,我想 |
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be open with who you are and not to be hypocritical one of the sort of worst |
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坦诚地面对自己,不要虚伪,这是最糟糕的行为之一 |
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examples that I always cite of uh anti-culture was a friend of mine who |
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我经常引用反文化的例子是我的一个朋友 |
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was working for a company that had um free lunch every Fridays and it would be |
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我在一家公司工作,每周五都有免费午餐,那就是 |
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it was very very fancy steak tuner tartar Sushi Etc then when the recession |
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当时经济衰退时,这是非常非常精致的牛排调音器鞑靼寿司等 |
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hit in 2008 2009 uh the food slowly started getting less and less good until |
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2008年2009年,嗯,食物慢慢开始变得越来越不好,直到 |
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for a series of weeks they were serving hot dogs every week and somebody raised |
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在接下来的几周里,他们每周都提供热狗,有人提出 |
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their hand at all hands and said I noticed that we've been having a lot of |
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他们举起手来,说我注意到我们有很多 |
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hot dogs um how's the company doing are we cutting back are we being a bit more |
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热狗 嗯,公司怎么样,我们要削减开支吗?我们要多一点吗? |
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Thrifty and the head of the uh of the office looked right at that person and |
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节俭和办公室的负责人直视那人,然后 |
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said oh no no no no we're doing fine it's Americana themed that's and everybody |
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说哦,不不不不,我们做得很好,这是美国主题,每个人都这样 |
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knows it and I think when you treat your employees like kids they're going to |
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我知道这一点,我认为当你像对待孩子一样对待你的员工时,他们就会 |
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behave as such versus being open and honest even if the answer is you know |
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即使答案是“你知道”,也要这样做,而不是开诚布公 |
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what we're still doing all right but the economy is tough so we're going to be a |
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我们仍在做的事情还不错,但经济形势严峻,所以我们将成为 |
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little bit more careful about things and |
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对事物更加小心一点 |
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I think this this segue on culture um or |
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我认为这是关于文化的延续或者 |
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this this focus on culture also leads to one of my next points which is around |
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这种对文化的关注也引出了我的下一点: |
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transparency at the Muse we think it's really important to be transparent so we |
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缪斯的透明度 我们认为透明非常重要,所以我们 |
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do this in a lot of ways um again thinking about living out our culture |
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以多种方式做到这一点,再次思考践行我们的文化 |
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and not just talking about it one of them is that we share board decks with |
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不仅仅是谈论它,其中之一是我们与 |
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the entire company at all hands after every board meeting um another is that |
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每次董事会会议后,整个公司都在全力以赴,另一个是 |
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we actually ran everyone through our full company budget in some pretty s of |
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exhaustive detail and the reason we did this was tied actually to another thing |
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详尽的细节以及我们这样做的原因实际上与另一件事有关 |
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that we really value which is scrappiness um one of the things that |
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我们真正重视的是斗志,嗯,这是其中之一 |
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people love to say is don't raise too much money because you will spend it |
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人们喜欢说的是不要筹集太多资金,因为你会花掉它 |
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frivolously um I think this is both true |
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轻率地嗯我认为这都是真的 |
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and not true it's true to a point I mean |
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这不是真的,在某种程度上我的意思是 |
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we went out to raise 5 to $6 million for our series a in April and we came back |
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4 月份,我们为 A 轮融资筹集了 5 至 600 万美元,然后又回来了 |
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with 10 that extra Capital has been so useful and ultimately we are the |
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10 额外的资本非常有用,最终我们是 |
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Arbiters of what we spend on so we can spend less or spend more based on how we |
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我们支出的仲裁者,以便我们可以根据我们的方式减少或增加支出 |
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think it fits in with the overall company priorities I think when people |
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认为它符合公司的整体优先事项 我认为当人们 |
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say if you raise more you will spend it to me that takes away the agency from |
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说如果你筹集更多资金,你会把它花给我,这会剥夺我的代理权 |
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the founders from the leadership um and I think that's a little bit silly |
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领导层的创始人嗯,我认为这有点愚蠢 |
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instead what we did was we said all right scrappiness is important to us and |
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相反,我们所做的是我们说好斗对我们来说很重要并且 |
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yet we just raised $10 million which to a cash strapped company that didn't |
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然而我们刚刚筹集了 1000 万美元,而这家公司却没有资金短缺 |
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spend 10 bucks without looking at Roi previously that seems like a lot of |
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花 10 美元而不看 Roi 之前看起来很多 |
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money one of my employees moms actually called him and said I heard the news |
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我的一位员工的妈妈打电话给他说我听到了这个消息 |
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that's so amazing how much of the 10 million is yours unfortunately it |
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太神奇了,不幸的是,这 1000 万中有多少是你的 |
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doesn't work that way even for Founders and so for us it was about how do we |
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即使对于创始人来说也不是这样,所以对我们来说,问题在于我们如何 |
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communicate to our company um what we're |
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与我们公司沟通,我们是什么 |
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using this money for and still keep that Scrappy ethos and so what we decided to |
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使用这笔钱并仍然保持斗志旺盛的精神,所以我们决定 |
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do was actually spend we had a 20 slide PowerPoint deck where we laid out every |
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实际上,我们做了一个 20 张幻灯片的 PowerPoint 演示文稿,其中列出了每一个内容 |
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single line in our budget we talked about how much are we spending uh we |
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在我们的预算中,我们讨论了我们花了多少钱呃我们 |
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actually talked about how much we spending this year in total how much |
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实际上讲了我们今年总共花了多少钱 |
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will we bring in in cash from revenue how much are we then burning of the 10 |
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我们能从收入中获得现金吗?那么我们要烧掉这 10 块钱吗? |
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what does that look like how much of that money is on payroll on health |
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工资单上的钱有多少是用于健康方面的? |
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insurance on office supplies marketing expenses how does that break down and |
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办公用品营销费用保险如何分解和 |
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what was so interesting is that we we were able to have an open conversation |
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有趣的是我们能够进行公开对话 |
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at the company about the trade-offs why aren't we going to start providing free |
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在公司关于权衡的问题为什么我们不开始免费提供 |
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lunch for everybody why are we deciding to spend that money on something else we |
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为每个人提供午餐 为什么我们决定把这笔钱花在其他事情上 |
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surveyed people and understood what benefits were most important so we could |
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调查人们并了解什么好处是最重要的,这样我们就可以 |
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put our money where it really counted and ultimately I think one of the most |
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把我们的钱花在真正重要的地方,最终我认为这是最重要的之一 |
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exciting things for me about that was having some of my Executives come up |
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对我来说令人兴奋的事情是我的一些高管的出现 |
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afterwards and say you know I asked for this much in the budget but actually I |
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事后说你知道我在预算中要求了这么多,但实际上我 |
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think I can do I can I think I can do what I need on this and and this would |
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我想我能做 我能 我想我能做我需要做的事 这会 |
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be nice to have but don't even worry about these things people were sort of |
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很高兴拥有,但甚至不用担心这些事情人们有点 |
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self-editing their requests because they |
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自我编辑他们的请求,因为他们 |
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bought in to where we were going and why it was so important for us to stay |
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了解我们要去的地方以及为什么留下来对我们如此重要 |
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Thrifty stay Scrappy and stay lean um so to sum this up say no to ball pits um I |
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节俭,保持斗志,保持精益,总结一下,对球坑说不,我 |
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think that there's a lot of these uh these sort of startup lore things and |
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我认为有很多这样的创业传说 |
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frankly I think if you need something like this to recruit um You probably |
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坦白说,我想如果你需要这样的东西来招募你可能 |
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have other problems and that s of sides into my into my last point which is how |
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还有其他问题,这就是我的最后一点,这就是如何 |
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do you stay motivated and excited for the Long Haul um this is me at y |
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你对长途旅行保持动力和兴奋吗嗯,这就是我在y |
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combinator demo day almost exactly four years ago we presented in March of 2012 |
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几乎整整四年前,我们在 2012 年 3 月推出了组合器演示日 |
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uh this was before my presentation and I was like absolutely terrified out of my |
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呃,这是在我演讲之前,我简直被吓坏了 |
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mind it was a 2 and a half minute presentation in front of 500 investors |
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请注意,这是在 500 名投资者面前进行的 2 分半钟的演示 |
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and I felt like it was a make or break moment that everything we'd done so far |
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我觉得这是一个决定成败的时刻,我们迄今为止所做的一切 |
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was riding on this stock and firstly that wasn't wasn't true we actually only |
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正在利用这只股票,首先,事实并非如此,我们实际上只是 |
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got I think one investor out of demo day |
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我认为一位投资者退出了演示日 |
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the rest of our Capital came from people |
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我们的其余资本来自于人 |
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I met afterwards and other conversations I had it would have been great to go up |
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我后来见面了,还有其他谈话,如果能上去就太好了 |
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on stage pitch and have people throwing checks at me but it didn't happen and we |
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在舞台上,有人向我扔支票,但这并没有发生,我们 |
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ended up being just fine and the second thing is as I was sitting there sort of |
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结果很好,第二件事是我坐在那里 |
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hyperventilating a little bit and uh and thinking about how I was going to get |
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有点换气过度,呃,想着我要怎么做 |
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through that moment um somebody said something which which has really |
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在那一刻,嗯,有人说了一些确实很重要的话 |
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resonated with me ever since which was remember why you started all of you are |
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从那以后就引起了我的共鸣,记住你们为什么开始你们所有人 |
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in this audience because you have started a company or you're thinking |
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在这群观众中,因为你已经创办了一家公司或者你正在考虑 |
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about starting a company and I want you to think about why what what brought |
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关于创办一家公司,我希望你思考为什么会带来什么 |
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that on for many people it's that there's a problem uh or an idea that |
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对很多人来说,这是一个问题或者一个想法 |
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just won't let you go for me it was the experience of being in a job that I |
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只是不会让你为我而走 这是我工作的经历 |
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didn't love and going online to look for a new job and spending time on I mean |
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不喜欢上网寻找新工作并花时间我的意思是 |
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you name it all of the big job search sites and thinking this is the best |
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您列出所有大型求职网站并认为这是最好的 |
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there is this is really what millions of people have to use to figure out the |
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这确实是数百万人必须用来弄清楚的 |
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place where they're going to spend 40 50 60 or more hours a week I I'm almost |
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他们每周要花 40 50 60 或更多小时的地方 我几乎 |
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offended by how bad that experience is and whenever I get down or frustrated or |
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每当我情绪低落、沮丧或 |
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when it's 4 and a half years in and it's |
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been a long time and and um you know the the late nights seemed to kind of keep |
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已经很长一段时间了,嗯,你知道,深夜似乎一直持续着 |
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going I think for me it's remembering why things got started and then also |
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我认为对我来说,它是记住事情开始的原因,然后也是 |
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reaching out to other people who have that problem whose lives were making a |
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向其他有这个问题的人伸出援手,他们的生活正在发生变化 |
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difference in reading the user emails that we get or talking to somebody who |
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阅读我们收到的用户电子邮件或与某人交谈的区别 |
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found their job on the site because ultimately being a startup can be one |
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在该网站上找到了工作,因为最终可以成为一家初创公司 |
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part one of the most meaningful experiences of your life and one part a |
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一部分是你一生中最有意义的经历,一部分是 |
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total slog but I think when you remember why you got into it you keep your focus |
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整个过程很艰难,但我认为当你记住为什么要进入它时,你就会保持专注 |
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on building for the Long Haul ultimately that's where the magic can |
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为长途建设最终这就是魔力所在 |
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really Happ happen so thank you |
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真的很高兴发生所以谢谢你 |
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