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本集视频通过美国投资公司YCombinator总裁山姆·奥特曼和企业家达斯汀·莫斯科维茨讲述创业的原因和创业成功的四个重要因素，帮助观者对于创业形成初步的理解，对自己的情况有专业准确的分析和判断。
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- So Sam asked me to talk about why you should start a startup.
- 山姆邀请我过来给大家介绍为什么要创业
- There's a bunch of reasons you might have.
- 确实，创业理由可能有很多
- And there's a bunch of common reasons that people have that I hear all the time for,
- 不过在我听过的众多理由中
- for why you might start a startup.
- 有一些比较常见
- It's important to know, like, what reason is yours.
- 大家一定要思考清楚自己创业的理由
- Because some of them only make sense in, in certain contexts.
- 因为有一些理由，只适用于特殊情况
- Some of them will actually like lead you astray.
- 有一些理由，是很偏颇的
- You may have been misled by the way that
- 好莱坞的作品，还有各种媒体
- Hollywood or the press likes to romanticize entrepreneurship.
- 倾向于把创业精神传奇化，这是会误导人的
- So I wanna try and like illuminate you know,
- 我要做的就是
- some of those potential fallacies, so you guys can, can make the decision in a clear way.
- 指出一些潜在的误区，这样，便于大家判断自己的情况
- And then I'll talk about the, the reason I like best for actually starting a startup.
- 之后我再介绍我认为的创业的最佳理由
- It's very related to a lot of what Sam just talked about
- 跟山姆刚才介绍过的内容相通
- but surprisingly I don't think it's the most common reason
- 不过我认为，这不是最常见的理由
- usually people have one of these other reasons or they just wanna start up, you know,
- 一般来说，人们创业的理由有很多，或者说，单纯就是想创业而已
- start a company for the sake of starting a company.
- 为了开公司而开公司，就这么简单
- So the, the four common reasons just to numerate them are it's glamorous.
- 我列了四个最常见的理由。第一，创业本身就吸引人
- You know, you'll be, you'll get to be the boss.
- 其次，创业者就是老板
- You'll have flexibility, especially over your schedule.
- 还有，有很大的灵活性，尤其是个人的时间安排
- And you'll have the change to have, you know, bigger impact.
- 最后，你做的决定影响是很大的
- And make more money than you'd, than you might by joining a later stage company.
- 开公司成功而赚的钱也比在大公司上班要多
- So, okay, so uh, you know, you, you guys are probably pretty familiar with this concept.
- 好，这点应该不用我多说了
- When I wrote the Medium post,
- 一年前
- which a lot of you guys read a year ago uh,
- 我写了一篇帖子，
- I felt like the story in the press was a, a little more unbalanced.
- 大家应该都读过，我觉得媒体刊发的创业故事，写的有点夸张了
- You know, entrepreneurship just got romanticized quite a bit.
- 很多媒体都会把创业家精神传奇化
- You know, the movie, The Social Network,
- 不知道大家看过电影《社交网络》没有
- came out, had a lot of sort of like bad aspects of, of, you know, what it's like to be an entrepreneur.
- 这部电影介绍了创业中不尽人意的方面，介绍了创业者的生活
- But mainly pa, sort of painted this picture of like.
- 但最主要的是向大家展示了这样的一幅创业场景
- There's a lot of partying and you just
- 电影中展示了很多派对的场景
- kinda move from like one brilliant insight to another brilliant insight um,
- 主人公的绝妙想法也是一个接着一个
- and really made it, you know, seem like this, like really cool thing to do.
- 最后创业成功。电影展示了创业辉煌的一面
- And I think the reality is just, you know, not quite so glamorous.
- 但实际上创业并不总是一帆风顺的
- There's sort of a, there's an ugly side to being an entrepreneur and also just more importantly what,
- 成为企业家也有不尽人意的地方
- what you're actually spending your time on is, is just a lot of hard work.
- 你要花费大量时间，非常辛苦地工作
- Sam mentioned this, but you're basically just sitting at your desk heads down,
- 山姆也提到了这一点，你要埋头工作
- focused answering customers, customer support, emails, doing sales, figuring out hard engineering problems.
- 回答客户的问题，提供客户支持，回复客户邮件，跑销售，解决各种棘手问题
- So it's really important that you kind of like, go in with, with eyes wide open.
- 你在入行前就要清楚地意识到这些问题
- And then also it's, it's really quite stressful.
- 这是非常累人的
- This has been a popular topic in the press lately.
- 最近媒体也在讨论这个问题
- The Economist actually ran a story just last week called like entrepreneurs anonymous,
- 上周《经济学家》杂志刚发了一篇文章叫无名创业者
- and shows like a founder kinda like hiding under his desk and talking about like founder depression.
- 讲述一位创业者躲在桌下倍感抑郁
- This is like a very real thing, like, you know, let's be real.
- 这种问题是很常见的，真的是这样
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