Name: 如何進入硅谷價值 6000 億美元的創業學校？ (How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang)
Uploaded: 2024-12-07T05:10:28.000Z
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This is just where so much stuff happened, especially for YC, over really 10 years.

這裡發生了很多事情，尤其是 YC 在過去 10 年裡發生的事情。

YC, short for Y Combinator, is one of the most storied startup accelerators in Silicon Valley, where Airbnb, Coinbase, and Red Hat are all based.

YC 是 Y Combinator 的縮寫，是硅谷最富傳奇色彩的初創企業加速器之一，Airbnb、Coinbase 和 Red Hat 等公司的總部都設在這裡。

It's like an elite club for chosen founders to get access to top-shelf mentors and, if they're lucky, raise top dollars.

這就像一個精英俱樂部，被選中的創始人可以接觸到一流的導師，如果幸運的話，還能籌集到頂級資金。

Gary Tan is the new leader of Y Combinator, succeeding a short line of big names, including Sam Altman and Paul Graham, which makes Tan now perhaps the ultimate startup kingmaker.

加里-譚（Gary Tan）是 Y Combinator 的新任領導人，他接替了薩姆-奧特曼（Sam Altman）和保羅-格雷厄姆（Paul Graham）等一眾大佬，這使得譚可能成為創業公司的終極締造者。

Ever done a deal here or anything like that?

在這裡做過交易或類似的事情嗎？

You know, YC is interesting because the deal is pretty straightforward.

要知道，YC 很有意思，因為交易非常直接。

We just meet them for 10 minutes and then decide yes or no.  Yeah.

我們只見他們 10 分鐘，然後決定要還是不要。  好吧

That's right. 10 minutes and then yes or no?

Well, I think you can look at what the founders are capable of, their skills.

我認為你可以看看創始人的能力和技能。

我想我們已經收到了 4 萬份申請。

It's a very… It's the lowest acceptance rate of, you know, more selective than, you know, pretty much any selective school in the world.

這是一個非常......這是最低的錄取率，你知道，比，你知道，幾乎所有的選擇性學校在世界上。

I feel like a lot of this stuff all started here, you know, back in really 2005.

我覺得很多事情都是從這裡開始的，你知道，就在 2005 年。

This idea that you could give very small amounts of money to just a few teams and have those teams go on to become sort of the Reddits and the Airbnbs of the world.

這種想法是，你可以只給少數幾個團隊提供極少量的資金，然後讓這些團隊成為世界上的 Reddits 和 Airbnbs。

This is where people meet their first investors, this is where they meet their co-founder for the first time.

在這裡，人們認識了他們的第一位投資者，在這裡，他們第一次見到了他們的聯合創始人。

Sometimes this is a really important part of Silicon Valley.

有時，這是硅谷非常重要的一部分。

I lived five blocks down that way and YC is about five blocks down this way.

我住在那邊的五個街區，YC 在這邊的五個街區。

So, just at the start of the financial crisis.

所以，就在金融危機爆發之初。

We raised our angel around for posterous the day Lehman died and nobody else in our batch managed to raise any money.

雷曼死的那天，我們為 posterous 籌集了天使資金，而我們那批人中沒有人成功籌到錢。

I grew up right here in Fremont, right across the bay.

我在弗裡蒙特長大，就在海灣對面。

And tech gave me everything I have, honestly.

You know, child of Chinese immigrants, you know, we were sometimes food insecure.

你知道，我們是中國移民的孩子，有時會感到食物不安全。

And we grew up in the shadow of all this greatness, all this technology being built from nothing.

我們在這一切偉大的陰影下長大，所有這些技術都是白手起家的。

I knew that I wanted to learn to code and, you know, I cold called the internet section until I got a job.

我知道我想學習編程，所以在找到工作之前，我一直在互聯網部門打冷電話。

And we were living in one or two bedroom apartments.

我們住在一間或兩間臥室的公寓裡。

And for my parents to, you know, sometimes struggle with English, the cultural barrier, you know, my dad was a foreman in a machine shop.

對於我的父母來說，你知道，他們有時會因為英語和文化障礙而掙扎，你知道，我的父親是一家機械廠的領班。

My mom was a nurse assistant at a convalescent home.

我媽媽是一家療養院的護士助理。

For dinner, we would sort of have the expired bread that someone would drop off to sort out my mom, who was, you know, working sometimes two shifts just to keep the family going.

晚飯時，我們會吃別人送來的過期麵包，以解決我媽媽的問題，你知道，她有時要兩班倒才能維持一家人的生活。

And so I think that's one of the really important things to me, that I realized, like, tech is this thing that can bring people out of whatever situation they're in and often into prosperity.

是以，我認為這對我來說是非常重要的事情之一，我意識到，科技這東西可以讓人們擺脫他們所處的任何境況，往往還能帶來繁榮。

You were sort of like an engineered designer by background.

This is why YC really attracted me in 2008, was that here was the one place that wasn't about the flash.

這也是 2008 年 YC 真正吸引我的原因，因為這裡是唯一一個與閃光燈無關的地方。

It wasn't about, you know, whether you had an MBA or, you know, you went to some school or whatever.

這與你是否擁有工商管理碩士學位，或者你上過什麼學校之類的無關。

It was just purely, hey, can you build something great?

這只是純粹的，嘿，你能造出點偉大的東西嗎？

You're sitting on the ground and you can see Paul Graham in the background and Mark Zuckerberg.

你坐在地上，可以看到背景中的保羅-格雷厄姆和馬克-扎克伯格。

At that point, I knew I wanted to start a company.

那時，我就知道我想創辦一家公司。

And YC threw this event that was a free event called Startup School.

YC 舉辦了一場名為 "創業學校 "的免費活動。

And it was all sort of like the luminaries.

You know, I believe that year Jeff Bezos came and he actually launched AWS at that startup school in 2008 at the auditorium at Stanford.

你知道，我相信那一年傑夫-貝索斯來了，他實際上是在 2008 年斯坦福大學禮堂的那所創業學校裡推出 AWS 的。

And I was actually thinking about, you know, either starting a company or becoming a hip That's a very different proposition.

實際上，我在考慮，你知道，要麼開一家公司，要麼成為一個時髦的人 這是個非常不同的命題。

You went on to become a partner at YC yourself.

How did you make the transition from entrepreneur to investor?

您是如何實現從創業者到投資者的轉變的？

You know, we were doing dead simple blogs by email, posterous.

要知道，我們以前都是通過電子郵件、Posterous 寫一些簡單的博客。

And then didn't you sell that to Twitter?

然後你不是把它賣給了 Twitter 嗎？

I mean, Instagram came out and that flatlined our growth.

我的意思是，Instagram 的出現讓我們的增長變得平緩。

And this is one of the interesting things about being an investor.

You know, I think we were very much in the running to be sort of one of the major social networks.

你知道，我認為我們很有希望成為主要社交網絡之一。

But that was because there were no really great iPhone apps yet for uploading photos until Instagram.

但那是因為在 Instagram 之前，還沒有真正出色的 iPhone 應用程序來上傳照片。

And now I realize it's actually the role of the investor.

現在我意識到，這其實是投資者的角色。

We need to be helping them understand the historical context, like what, you know, what is actually happening in the market and what are the brass rings that are going to be enduring meaningful businesses that could be worth billions of dollars.

我們需要幫助他們瞭解歷史背景，比如，你知道的，市場上實際發生了什麼，哪些是有價值的業務，哪些是能夠經久不衰的銅環，這些業務可能價值數十億美元。

很明顯，你在 YC 工作過一段時間。

Initialized.  You made some pretty smart bets early on.

初始化。  你一開始就下了很明智的賭注。

What did you learn from that experience that gave you sort of the bona fides to be an investor?

你從那段經歷中學到了什麼，讓你有資格成為一名投資者？

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