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I want to talk for a second about low points because I think people never |
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我想谈谈低点,因为我认为人们永远不会 |
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appreciate how bad they really are and I think it's always reassuring to hear |
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理解他们到底有多糟糕,我认为听到这些总是让人安心 |
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that even Mark Zuckerberg went through some serious low points and came out |
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甚至马克·扎克伯格也经历了一些严重的低谷并走出了困境 |
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okay so can you tell us about some of the hardest parts in history of the |
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好的,你能告诉我们历史上一些最困难的部分吗? |
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early history of Facebook yeah I think one of the hardest parts for me was was |
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Facebook 的早期历史 是的,我认为对我来说最困难的部分之一是 |
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actually when Yahoo offered to buy the company for for a lot of money because |
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事实上,当雅虎提出以高价收购该公司时,因为 |
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up until that point that was this turning point in the company where |
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直到那时,这就是公司的转折点 |
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before that we every day we just come in and kind of do what we thought was the |
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在那之前我们每天都会进来做我们认为应该做的事情 |
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right next thing to do right we'd open two more schools we we open to high |
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下一步要做的事情是我们会再开两所我们向高中开放的学校 |
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school and open beyond schools and you know launch more photos so because |
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学校和学校以外的地方开放,你知道要发布更多照片,因为 |
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because that's what it seemed like the next thing that that we needed to do to |
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因为这似乎就是我们接下来需要做的事情 |
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help people express themselves and understand more what was going on around |
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帮助人们表达自己并更多地了解周围发生的事情 |
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them but then no yahoo came in with this with this really meaningful offer right |
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他们但是没有雅虎进来提供这个真正有意义的报价 |
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even a billion dollars for us was how far into the company I was a couple of |
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即使是十亿美元对我们来说也是我进入公司的程度 |
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years ago right and you know we have 10 million people using the product at the |
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几年前,你知道我们有 1000 万人在使用该产品 |
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time right so it wasn't like it wasn't as if it were obvious that we were gonna |
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时间正好,所以这并不是很明显我们要 |
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succeed far beyond that and that was the first point where we really had to to |
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取得的成功远远超出了这一点,这是我们真正必须做到的第一点 |
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look at the future and say wow is what we're gonna build going to actually be |
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展望未来,我们要打造的东西真的会是这样 |
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so much more meaningful for this and you know that caused a lot of interesting |
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对此更有意义,你知道这引起了很多有趣的事情 |
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conversations in the company and and with our investors and |
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公司内部以及与投资者的对话 |
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you know at the end of that Dustin and I had just decided you know no we think |
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你知道,在最后,达斯汀和我刚刚决定,你知道,不,我们认为 |
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that we can actually go connect more than just the 10 million people who are |
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我们实际上可以连接的不仅仅是 1000 万人 |
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in schools we can go beyond that and have this really be a successful thing |
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在学校,我们可以超越这一点,让这真正成为一件成功的事情 |
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and we just had to go for it but it was really stressful because a lot of people |
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我们不得不努力,但这真的很有压力,因为很多人 |
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really thought that we should sell the company and and you know for a lot of |
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真的认为我们应该卖掉公司,而且你知道很多 |
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folks who joined a start-up I feel like at that point I hadn't been very good |
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那些加入初创公司的人 我觉得那时我表现得不太好 |
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about communicating that we were trying to go for this mission yeah you know we |
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关于传达我们正在努力执行这项任务是的,你知道我们 |
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just showed up every day and yeah and just kind of did what we thought was the |
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只是每天都出现,是的,只是做了我们认为的事情 |
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the right next thing to do so for a lot of the folks who joined |
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对于很多加入的人来说,下一步要做的就是正确的事情 |
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early on that there weren't really aligned with me right for them you know |
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早些时候,我并没有真正与他们保持一致,你知道的 |
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they joined and you know being able to sell a company for a billion dollars |
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他们加入了,你知道能够以十亿美元的价格出售一家公司 |
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after a couple years I was like a home run right and it is a home run right |
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几年后我就像一个全垒打,这是一个全垒打 |
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then and that's you know I think that that's um I get that but you know that I |
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然后你知道我想那就是,我明白,但你知道我 |
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think that the fact that I didn't communicate very well about what we were |
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认为我没有很好地沟通我们的情况 |
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trying to do cause cause this huge tension and the part that was painful |
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试图做导致这种巨大紧张和痛苦的部分 |
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wasn't wasn't turning down the offer it was the fact that after that a huge |
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不是拒绝这个提议,而是事实是,在那之后,一个巨大的 |
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amounts of the company quit because I didn't believe in and what we were what |
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公司的很多人退出是因为我不相信我们是什么 |
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we were doing right am if you look at the management team that we had did that |
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如果你看看我们的管理团队,我们做得对 |
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hello management team leave the whole management team who was gone within |
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你好,管理团队离开整个管理团队,他们已经消失了 |
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within about a year after that did you ever regret that decision |
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在那之后大约一年内,你后悔过这个决定吗? |
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in that period like where there are times where you were like well we should |
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在那个时期,就像有时你表现得很好,我们应该 |
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have sold um you know we were I was I got really lucky because you know not |
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已经卖了,你知道我们是我,我真的很幸运,因为你不知道 |
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only did did what I believed in end up working out but it ended up working out |
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只做了我相信的事情最终成功了但它最终成功了 |
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pretty quickly right so it literally you know I think this was in the summer of |
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很快,所以从字面上看,你知道我认为这是在夏天 |
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2006 and by I think the the next month after that we launched news feed right |
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2006 年,我想在那之后的下个月我们就推出了新闻推送 |
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which now ten years later looking back at it is you know one of the most used |
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十年后回顾它,你知道它是最常用的之一 |
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products in the world and then we launched the ability for anyone to sign |
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世界各地的产品,然后我们推出了任何人都可以签名的功能 |
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up which immediately started growing the community so within a few months after |
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立即开始发展社区,所以在几个月后 |
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turning down the offer I think it was actually pretty clear that that was the |
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拒绝这个提议 我认为实际上很明显那就是 |
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right decision but you know I think you know since then there have been much |
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正确的决定,但你知道,我想你知道,从那时起,发生了很多事情 |
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harder to say that we've had to make where you know sometimes you have to you |
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很难说我们必须做出你知道有时你必须做的事情 |
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have to bet on something and and you know either |
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必须赌某事,而你知道 |
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you know bet the direction of the company or you know bet billions of |
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你知道押注公司的方向,或者你知道押注数十亿美元 |
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dollars on something it's not gonna be clear with you're right for five or ten |
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花五美元或十美元买一些你不清楚的东西 |
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years and you know that I think actually can end up being much harder than this |
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多年,你知道我认为实际上最终会比这困难得多 |
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what I want to talk about next but before we go there have you ever thought |
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接下来我想谈什么,但在我们去之前你有没有想过 |
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about selling the company again since no after that pour em is just ya got that |
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关于再次出售公司,因为在那之后,你就明白了 |
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out of the way we'll get our people that |
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我们会让我们的员工 |
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want to be here for a long time and yeah cool you |
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想在这里待很长时间,是的,你很酷 |
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