Paul Graham ：如何創辦出一家 Google
本文用 Claude Opus 直出，花了我 0.5 塊美金，大概率一年內會再降個一半之類的吧，除了偶爾會出現「編程」「項目」之類的字眼，還有 2 段跑出全簡體中文，體感上非常順暢。
(This is a talk I gave to 14 and 15 year olds about what to do now if they might want to start a startup later. Lots of schools think they should tell students something about startups. This is what I think they should tell them.)
（本文是我針對 14 到 15 歲的青少年所做的演講，內容是關於如果他們將來想要創業，現在應該做些什麼。許多學校認為他們應該向學生講解一些關於新創公司的事情。以下是我認為他們應該告訴學生的內容。）
Most of you probably think that when you're released into the so-called real world you'll eventually have to get some kind of job. That's not true, and today I'm going to talk about a trick you can use to avoid ever having to get a job.
你們大多數人可能認為，一旦你們被釋放到所謂的現實世界中，最終必須找到某種工作。這並不正確，今天我要和大家分享一個竅門，讓你們可以避免必須找工作。
The trick is to start your own company. So it's not a trick for avoiding work, because if you start your own company you'll work harder than you would if you had an ordinary job. But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do.
這個竅門就是創立自己的公司。所以這不是避免工作的詭計，因為如果你創立自己的公司，你將比在一般工作中更加努力工作。但是你可以避免許多工作帶來的煩人之處，包括有一個老闆告訴你該做什麼。
It's more exciting to work on your own project than someone else's. And you can also get a lot richer. In fact, this is the standard way to get really rich. If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally get published in the press, nearly all of them did it by starting their own companies.
從事自己的專案比從事別人的專案更令人興奮。而且你也可以變得更加富有。事實上，這是變得非常富有的標準方式。如果你看看媒體偶爾發布的富豪榜單，其中幾乎所有人都是通過創立自己的公司而致富的。
Starting your own company can mean anything from starting a barber shop to starting Google. I'm here to talk about one extreme end of that continuum. I'm going to tell you how to start Google.
創立自己的公司可以意味著從開一家理髮店到創立 Google （谷歌）的任何事情。我今天要談的是這個連續體的一個極端。我將告訴你們如何創立 Google。
The companies at the Google end of the continuum are called startups when they're young. The reason I know about them is that my wife Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator that is basically a startup factory. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 4000 startups. So we know exactly what you need to start a startup, because we've helped people do it for the last 19 years.
在這個連續體中，處於 Google 一端的公司在年輕時被稱為新創公司。我之所以了解它們，是因為我的妻子 Jessica （潔西卡）和我創立了一個叫做 Y Combinator （Y 組合）的機構，它基本上是一個新創公司工廠。自 2005 年以來，Y Combinator 已經資助了超過 4000 家新創公司。所以我們確切知道創立一家新創公司需要什麼，因為在過去 19 年裡，我們一直在幫助人們實現這一目標。
You might have thought I was joking when I said I was going to tell you how to start Google. You might be thinking "How could we start Google?" But that's effectively what the people who did start Google were thinking before they started it. If you'd told Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, that the company they were about to start would one day be worth over a trillion dollars, their heads would have exploded.
你可能認為當我說要告訴你如何創立 Google 的時候，我是在開玩笑。你可能在想「我們怎麼可能創立 Google？」但這實際上就是 Google 創辦人在創立之前所思考的。如果你告訴 Google 的創辦人 Larry Page 和 Sergey Brin，他們即將創立的公司有朝一日會價值超過一兆美元，他們的腦袋可能會爆炸。
All you can know when you start working on a startup is that it seems worth pursuing. You can't know whether it will turn into a company worth billions or one that goes out of business. So when I say I'm going to tell you how to start Google, I mean I'm going to tell you how to get to the point where you can start a company that has as much chance of being Google as Google had of being Google. [1]
當你開始創業時，你唯一能知道的就是這個創業似乎值得一試。你無法知道它會變成一家價值數十億美元的公司，還是一家倒閉的公司。所以當我說我要告訴你如何創立 Google 時，我的意思是我要告訴你如何達到一個階段，在那個階段你可以創立一家和 Google 一樣有機會成為 Google 的公司。[1]
How do you get from where you are now to the point where you can start a successful startup? You need three things. You need to be good at some kind of technology, you need an idea for what you're going to build, and you need cofounders to start the company with.
你如何從現在的位置到達可以創立一家成功的新創公司的階段？你需要三樣東西。你需要擅長某種技術，你需要一個想法知道你要打造什麼，以及你需要共同創辦人一起創立公司。
本文用 Claude Opus 直出，花了我 0.5 塊美金，大概率一年內會再降個一半之類的吧，除了偶爾會出現「編程」「項目」之類的字眼，還有 2 段跑出全簡體中文，體感上非常順暢。
(This is a talk I gave to 14 and 15 year olds about what to do now if they might want to start a startup later. Lots of schools think they should tell students something about startups. This is what I think they should tell them.)
（本文是我針對 14 到 15 歲的青少年所做的演講，內容是關於如果他們將來想要創業，現在應該做些什麼。許多學校認為他們應該向學生講解一些關於新創公司的事情。以下是我認為他們應該告訴學生的內容。）
Most of you probably think that when you're released into the so-called real world you'll eventually have to get some kind of job. That's not true, and today I'm going to talk about a trick you can use to avoid ever having to get a job.
你們大多數人可能認為，一旦你們被釋放到所謂的現實世界中，最終必須找到某種工作。這並不正確，今天我要和大家分享一個竅門，讓你們可以避免必須找工作。
The trick is to start your own company. So it's not a trick for avoiding work, because if you start your own company you'll work harder than you would if you had an ordinary job. But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do.
這個竅門就是創立自己的公司。所以這不是避免工作的詭計，因為如果你創立自己的公司，你將比在一般工作中更加努力工作。但是你可以避免許多工作帶來的煩人之處，包括有一個老闆告訴你該做什麼。
It's more exciting to work on your own project than someone else's. And you can also get a lot richer. In fact, this is the standard way to get really rich. If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally get published in the press, nearly all of them did it by starting their own companies.
從事自己的專案比從事別人的專案更令人興奮。而且你也可以變得更加富有。事實上，這是變得非常富有的標準方式。如果你看看媒體偶爾發布的富豪榜單，其中幾乎所有人都是通過創立自己的公司而致富的。
Starting your own company can mean anything from starting a barber shop to starting Google. I'm here to talk about one extreme end of that continuum. I'm going to tell you how to start Google.
創立自己的公司可以意味著從開一家理髮店到創立 Google （谷歌）的任何事情。我今天要談的是這個連續體的一個極端。我將告訴你們如何創立 Google。
The companies at the Google end of the continuum are called startups when they're young. The reason I know about them is that my wife Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator that is basically a startup factory. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 4000 startups. So we know exactly what you need to start a startup, because we've helped people do it for the last 19 years.
在這個連續體中，處於 Google 一端的公司在年輕時被稱為新創公司。我之所以了解它們，是因為我的妻子 Jessica （潔西卡）和我創立了一個叫做 Y Combinator （Y 組合）的機構，它基本上是一個新創公司工廠。自 2005 年以來，Y Combinator 已經資助了超過 4000 家新創公司。所以我們確切知道創立一家新創公司需要什麼，因為在過去 19 年裡，我們一直在幫助人們實現這一目標。
You might have thought I was joking when I said I was going to tell you how to start Google. You might be thinking "How could we start Google?" But that's effectively what the people who did start Google were thinking before they started it. If you'd told Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, that the company they were about to start would one day be worth over a trillion dollars, their heads would have exploded.
你可能認為當我說要告訴你如何創立 Google 的時候，我是在開玩笑。你可能在想「我們怎麼可能創立 Google？」但這實際上就是 Google 創辦人在創立之前所思考的。如果你告訴 Google 的創辦人 Larry Page 和 Sergey Brin，他們即將創立的公司有朝一日會價值超過一兆美元，他們的腦袋可能會爆炸。
All you can know when you start working on a startup is that it seems worth pursuing. You can't know whether it will turn into a company worth billions or one that goes out of business. So when I say I'm going to tell you how to start Google, I mean I'm going to tell you how to get to the point where you can start a company that has as much chance of being Google as Google had of being Google. [1]
當你開始創業時，你唯一能知道的就是這個創業似乎值得一試。你無法知道它會變成一家價值數十億美元的公司，還是一家倒閉的公司。所以當我說我要告訴你如何創立 Google 時，我的意思是我要告訴你如何達到一個階段，在那個階段你可以創立一家和 Google 一樣有機會成為 Google 的公司。[1]
How do you get from where you are now to the point where you can start a successful startup? You need three things. You need to be good at some kind of technology, you need an idea for what you're going to build, and you need cofounders to start the company with.
你如何從現在的位置到達可以創立一家成功的新創公司的階段？你需要三樣東西。你需要擅長某種技術，你需要一個想法知道你要打造什麼，以及你需要共同創辦人一起創立公司。
