Name: 塞雷娜-威廉姆斯從網壇巨星到風險投資巨頭 (Serena Williams: From Tennis GOAT to VC Powerhouse)
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T09:20:42.000Z
Duration: 14 min 40 s

She's one of the most decorated tennis players of all time.

她是歷史上功勳最卓著的網球運動員之一。

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無論做什麼，我都要做到最好。

Now she's applying lessons learned in sport to a career in business.

現在，她將在體育運動中學到的經驗運用到商業生涯中。

Here at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Serena is appearing on stage to speak about her newly announced role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at consumer goods conglomerate record start-up accelerator programme Catalyst.

在 2025 年坎城國際創意節（Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity）上，塞雷娜上臺講述了她新近宣佈擔任消費品集團記錄創業加速器計劃 "催化劑"（Catalyst）駐場企業家的情況。

After the event, I sat down with Serena for this exclusive interview.

活動結束後，我與塞雷娜進行了獨家專訪。

Serena, thank you so much for joining me here at Cannes Lions.

塞雷娜，非常感謝你參加坎城國際電影節。

是啊，這裡真不錯，你知道的。

I've come here but I haven't been able to speak here, so this is nice.

我來過這裡，但一直沒能在這裡發言，所以這很好。

What did it feel like speaking here, Serena?

在這裡說話的感覺如何，Serena？

Because obviously everyone knows you as the tennis legend that you are.

因為顯然大家都知道你是網球界的傳奇人物。

And here you are talking about your business, your entrepreneurship.

而你卻在這裡談論你的生意、你的創業精神。

What are the messages that you want to get across?

Well, first of all, it's nice to be here and it's nice to speak here.

首先，很高興來到這裡，也很高興在這裡發言。

And for people to see the other thing and the other side of Serena, things that I've actually been doing for well over a decade and just building that.

為了讓人們看到塞雷娜的另一面，看到我十多年來一直在做的事情，以及我所做的一切。

Businesses that I've been building and investing that I've been doing and kind of talking about that.

我一直在建立的企業，我一直在做的投資，我一直在談論這些。

A lot of people don't actually know that about me.

It felt good to just talk about investing in women and also what we're doing.

談論對女性的投資以及我們正在做的事情感覺很好。

But just like it always feels good to talk about empowering other people, to be honest.

但說實話，就像談論賦予他人權力的感覺總是很好一樣。

要知道，這並不總是我們自己的事。

It's about what you can do to help others.

這關係到你能為他人做些什麼。

And so I like that and I like talking about that as well.

所以我喜歡這樣，也喜歡談論這些。

And you've also just been announced as Reckitt Catalyst Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

你還剛剛被宣佈為利潔時催化劑駐場企業家。

Yes, and that's super exciting to be there on Reckitt's Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

是的，能成為利潔時的常駐企業家，我感到非常興奮。

And I'm really excited about what Reckitt wants to do.

我對 Reckitt 想要做的事情感到非常興奮。

You know, we've been actually working on this for almost two years now.

要知道，實際上我們已經為此工作了近兩年時間。

And so to be able to talk about things that start out as an idea and just like how to build on it and how to bring me into this idea and me wanting to do it very authentically and me saying like, listen, I want to do this, but how does this work?

是以，我們能夠談論那些一開始只是一個想法的事情，以及如何在此基礎上發展，如何將我帶入這個想法中，讓我非常真實地想去做，並且讓我說，聽著，我想這樣做，但這怎麼能行呢？

And then also talking to Reckitt how they were super authentic, like we want to do this and we want to make sure that it is for women, it is for entrepreneurs, it is for innovators.

在與利潔時的交談中，他們表現得非常真誠，就像我們想做這件事，我們想確保它是為女性、為企業家、為創新者準備的。

We don't want it to be about anything else that we do.

我們不希望它與我們所做的其他事情有關。

It's really just about building up someone else.

And like I said, like just being here to talk about how you're helping others.

就像我說的，在這裡談談你是如何幫助他人的。

So I'm really excited to be there, Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

所以，我真的很高興能在那裡擔任駐場企業家。

And I'm really excited to just kind of, you know, back these new innovators through investing in them and investing in what they're doing.

我很高興能通過投資這些新的創新者，支持他們的工作。

Well, you just said that you've been investing for a long time.

你剛才說你已經投資了很長時間。

Curiosity.  I love people that are curious, and I love being curious, and I love learning about what's next.

好奇心。  我喜歡有好奇心的人，我喜歡好奇的自己，我喜歡瞭解下一步。

And I feel like we're living in this crazy world right now, but it's also a digital world.

我覺得我們現在生活在一個瘋狂的世界裡，但這也是一個數字化的世界。

And this might sound crazy, but I just go back to the Industrial Revolution.

這聽起來可能很瘋狂，但我只是回到了工業革命時期。

Like we're living in a digital revolution, and I feel like every 10, 20 years it's a new digital revolution.

就像我們生活在一場數字革命中，我覺得每 10 年、20 年就會有一場新的數字革命。

And so, for me, that's how I started investing was just being curious about how do I get on the cap table of some of these companies that are effectively changing how we're living our lives.

是以，對我來說，我就是這樣開始投資的，我只是好奇，我怎樣才能進入這些公司的董事會，這些公司正在有效地改變我們的生活方式。

We're not viewing transportation the same.

We're not viewing, you know, health care the same.

我們對醫療保健的看法是不一樣的。

There's so many things that have changed through technology.

And I was curious about how do I invest in that and be a part of that movement in a different way, like behind the scenes.

我很好奇，我該如何投入其中，以不同的方式參與到這場運動中來，比如在幕後。

We're talking about in front of the scenes.  Your career as a legend, how do you think that's translated to what you do now?

我們說的是在幕前。  你作為傳奇人物的職業生涯，你認為是如何轉化為你現在的工作的？

What do you think you learned from the tennis court that you're using now in business?

你認為你從網球場上學到了什麼，現在你在生意場上又用上了什麼？

Yeah, well, I think just being disciplined I think is the number one thing.

是啊，我覺得嚴於律己是第一位的。

Tennis is, you know, every day you have to do it every day.

網球就是，你知道，每天都要打。

You have to train, and business is the same.

You also have to be determined, you know, through ups and downs, be determined to keep going.

你還必須下定決心，你知道，經歷坎坷，下定決心堅持下去。

And that's one thing that I'm excited to do is to talk to these mentors about that determination that I've shown so much in my past career and just bring it out to this new career of mine.

我很高興能做的一件事，就是和這些導師們談談我在過去的職業生涯中表現出的決心，並把這種決心帶到我的新職業生涯中。

Having shown promise from a young age alongside her sister Venus, Serena started her professional tennis career as a teenager and achieved her first Grand Slam win at the age of just 17 at the 1999 US Open.

塞雷娜從小就與姐姐維納斯一起展現出了良好的發展前景，十幾歲就開始了職業網球生涯，1999 年美國網球公開賽上，年僅 17 歲的她就贏得了自己的首個大滿貫冠軍。

Since then, the trophies came thick and fast, and with 23 Grand Slam titles to her name, she's one of the most successful female tennis players of all time.

從那時起，她的獎盃紛至沓來，目前已獲得 23 個大滿貫冠軍，是有史以來最成功的女子網球運動員之一。

After almost 30 years in the sport, Serena retired from professional tennis in 2022.

在從事這項運動近 30 年後，塞雷娜於 2022 年退出職業網壇。

You broke boundaries, you made history, Serena.

你打破了界限，創造了歷史，塞雷娜。

Is there anything that you could highlight when you look back at it now, those moments?

當你現在回首往事時，有沒有什麼能讓你印象深刻的時刻？

你知道，我不太願意回首往事。

It's filled with so much nostalgia and honestly, like, sadness, because I miss it, you know?

它充滿了懷舊和悲傷，因為我想念它，你知道嗎？

And it's like, oh, so I just try not to...

這就像，哦，所以我只是儘量不...

I just do the awful avoidance technique and just avoid it and just don't think about it and, like, I don't want to talk about it, don't honour me, like, don't think about this.

我只是做了可怕的迴避技巧，只是迴避它，只是不去想它，就像，我不想談論它，不要給我榮譽，就像，不要去想這個。

It becomes really emotional for me because I still, like, I still miss it.

這讓我非常激動，因為我仍然懷念它。

Can I just take you, though, to that first moment when you were 17 years old?

不過，我能不能帶你回到你 17 歲時的那一刻？

That's different, you know, because it's like, I like reminiscing on that because that seems like a lifetime ago and the other stuff seems like it's still in reach, you know?

這不一樣，你知道，因為這就像，我喜歡回憶那件事，因為那好像是一輩子前的事了，而其他的事好像還在眼前，你知道嗎？

So, yeah, so that was kind of cool, you know, just being able to...

所以，是啊，所以這是一種很酷，你知道，只是能夠...

When I look at pictures and being able to hold up that trophy, you know, that you dream about when you're just a kid and, you know, you're still a kid, which you don't realise at the time until you look back and be like, oh, man, I was so young.

當我看著照片，能夠舉起獎盃時，你知道，那是你小時候夢寐以求的，你知道，你還是個孩子，直到你回首往事時，你才意識到，哦，天哪，我當時太年輕了。

And, like, you think about, you know, being able to hold up that US Open trophy of all Grand Slams to win for the first time.

你會想到，你知道，能夠舉起美國網球公開賽的獎盃，第一次贏得所有大滿貫賽事的冠軍。

It was kind of iconic that I was able to win that one.

我能夠贏得那場比賽有點標誌性。

I mean, Wimbledon, obviously, would have been probably arguably better.

我的意思是，溫布爾登顯然會更好一些。

I don't have that experience, so I can't tell you, but I can ask my sister because that was her first Grand Slam was Wimbledon, so...

我沒有這樣的經驗，所以我不能告訴你，但我可以問我的妹妹，因為那是她的第一個大滿貫是溫布爾登，所以...

Another moment which seems iconic, which you talked about recently, was when you won the Australian Open, and you were already nine weeks pregnant, but nobody knew.

你最近談到的另一個標誌性時刻是你贏得澳洲網球公開賽時，當時你已經懷孕九周了，但沒人知道。