扎克伯格脸书创始人兼首席执行官。世界上最富有的80后,被誉为第二个比尔盖茨。2020年扎克伯格以850亿美元位列《福布斯富豪排行榜》第三位。这位年轻人靠什么在如此短时间内取得如此成就。下面我截取一段扎克伯格在接受孵化器公司Y Combinator总裁采访时关于创业的一些经验总结。
Ask:When you think about your own experience of starting a business, what advice do you think you can give to other young people who want to start a business?
问:当你回想自己创业的经历时,你认为自己能给其他想要创业的年轻人提供哪些建议?
Answer:I always think that you should start from the problem. You can't start a business for the sake of starting a business, but to solve a certain problem in the society. Modern excellence is all about promoting social change, even if it's just a small company. You shouldn't want to make a lot of money in the first place, because starting a business is a very difficult thing for people who have ever started a business. I think it's your faith, not money, that will support you through the storm
答:我一直认为你应该从问题开始,你不能而不是为了创业而创业,而是要为解决社会中的某个问题。现代的优秀都是为了推动社会变革,哪怕只是一家小公司。你不应该一开始就想着赚大钱,因为对于有过创业经历的人来说,创业是件非常艰难事情。我认为能够支撑你渡过难关的东西是你的信念而非金钱。
Ask:What advice would you like to give to young people who want to change the world like you?
问:你想对想要像你一样去改变世界的年轻人提点什么建议?
Answer:You don't have to be forced to start a business, but you should dare to take risks 。in my early days, Peter (Peter tell, a Facebook investor) said to me, "in this fast changing world, the biggest risk is not to take any risks." There is always a risk that you will have to change when you do. Any decision you make will have both advantages and disadvantages. However, if you are always hesitant and dare not make any changes, you will never be able to catch up with the times and fail. 答:创业不必强求但要敢于冒险。
就想我创业初期彼得(彼得•泰尔Facebook投资人)对我说过一句话,“在这个瞬息万变的世界里,最大风险就是不冒任何风险。”当你必须要作一些改调整或改变时,总会有人提醒你这么做有可能带来的潜在风险。你做的任何决定都会有利有弊。但是,如果你总是犹豫不决,不敢做出任何改变,那么将永远无法追赶上时代并且一败涂地。
3.Ask:Let's talk about the trough of entrepreneurship. I feel that many people never reflect on why they failed
3.答:我们来聊聊创业的低谷时期,我感觉许多人从不反省为何失败
It's important to keep trying. It's like starting a scientific company. It's important that you know what you're going to do next, as long as you try different hypotheses and do it well. So we made a lot of different decisions in the company. We invested in this huge experimental framework and delegated the power of experiment to engineers for tens of thousands of different experiments, so we developed very quickly and efficiently.
答:不断尝试,这很重要。创建公司就要像科学实验一样。只要你去尝试各种不同的假设并很好地完成,你就知道你接下来做什么了,这很重要。因此我们在公司里做出了很多不同的决定,我们对这个巨大的实验框架进行了投资并实验的权力下放给工程师进行上万种不同的试验,所以我们发展的很快很高效。