How to Start Google
March 2024 (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.
2024 年 3 月（这是我给 14 岁和 15 岁的人做的一次演讲，内容是如果他们以后想创业的话现在该怎么做。
Lots of schools think they should tell students something about startups.
许多学校认为他们应该向学生介绍一些有关创业公司的知识。
This is what I think they should tell them.) 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.
这是我认为他们应该告诉他们的。）你们中的大多数人可能认为，当您被释放到所谓的现实世界中时，您最终将不得不找到某种工作。
That's not true, and today I'm going to talk about a trick you
这不是真的，今天我要给大家讲一个技巧
can use to avoid ever having to get a job.
可以用来避免找工作。
The trick is to start your own company.
诀窍是创办自己的公司。
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.
所以这并不是逃避工作的窍门，因为如果你创办自己的公司，你会比从事普通工作时更加努力地工作。
But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do.
但你会避免工作带来的许多烦人的事情，包括老板告诉你该做什么。
It's more exciting to work on your own project than someone else's.
从事自己的项目比从事别人的项目更令人兴奋。
And you can also get a lot richer.
而且你还可以变得更加富有。
In fact, this is the standard way to get really rich .
事实上，这是真正致富的标准方式。
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.
如果你看一下偶尔在媒体上发表的最富有的人名单，你会发现几乎所有人都是通过创办自己的公司来实现这一目标的。
Starting your own company can mean anything from starting a barber shop to starting Google.
创办自己的公司可以意味着任何事情，从创办理发店到创办谷歌。
I'm here to talk about one extreme end of that continuum.
我来这里是要谈论这一连续体的一个极端。
I'm going to tell you how to start Google.
我将告诉您如何启动 Google。
The companies at the Google end of the continuum are called startups when they're young.
位于谷歌连续体末端的公司在年轻时被称为初创公司。
The reason I know about them is that my wife Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator that is basically a startup factory.
我之所以了解他们，是因为我和妻子杰西卡创办了一家名为 Y Combinator 的公司，它基本上是一家初创工厂。
Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 4000 startups.
自 2005 年以来，Y Combinator 已资助了 4000 多家初创公司。
So we know exactly what you need to start a startup, because we've helped people do it for the last 19 years.
因此，我们确切地知道您创办一家初创公司需要什么，因为我们在过去 19 年里一直在帮助人们做到这一点。
You might have thought I was joking when I said I was going to tell
当我说我要告诉你时，你可能以为我在开玩笑
you how to start Google.
你如何启动谷歌。
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.
您可能会想“我们怎样才能启动 Google？”但这实际上就是那些创建谷歌的人在创建之前所想的。
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.
如果你告诉谷歌创始人拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林，他们即将创办的公司有一天将价值超过一万亿美元，他们的脑袋一定会爆炸。
All you can know when you start working on a startup is that it
当你开始在一家初创公司工作时，你所能知道的就是
seems worth pursuing.
看来值得追求。
You can't know whether it will turn into a company worth billions or one that goes out of business.
你不知道它会变成一家价值数十亿的公司还是一家倒闭的公司。
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.
因此，当我说我要告诉你如何创办谷歌时，我的意思是我要告诉你如何创办一家公司，让你有机会成为谷歌，就像谷歌成为谷歌一样。
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