Hiring is Obsolete
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获得 Y Combinator 的资助。
</td > May 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Berkeley CSUA.) The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.
</td> 2005 年 5 月（本文摘自伯克利 CSUA 的一次演讲。）现在互联网上的三大巨头是雅虎、谷歌和微软。
Average age of their founders: 24.
创始人的平均年龄：24岁。
So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies.
因此，现在研究生可以创办成功的公司已经是很确定的事情了。
And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?
如果研究生能做到，为什么本科生不能呢？
Like everything else in technology, the cost of starting a startup has decreased dramatically.
与科技领域的其他事物一样，创办初创企业的成本也大幅下降。
Now it's so low that it has disappeared into the noise.
现在它是如此之低，以至于消失在噪音中。
The main cost of starting a Web-based startup is food and rent.
创办网络初创公司的主要成本是食物和租金。
Which means it doesn't cost much more to start a company than to be a total slacker.
这意味着创办一家公司并不比成为一个彻底的懒鬼花费更多。
You can probably start a startup on ten thousand dollars of seed funding, if you're prepared to live on ramen.
如果你准备好靠拉面为生的话，你也许可以用一万美元的种子资金来创办一家初创公司。
The less it costs to start a company, the less you need the permission of investors to do it.
创办公司的成本越低，就越不需要投资者的许可。
So a lot of people will be able to start companies now who never could have before.
因此，很多人现在将能够创办以前无法创办的公司。
The most interesting subset may be those in their early twenties.
最有趣的子集可能是二十岁出头的人。
I'm not so excited about founders who have everything investors want except intelligence, or everything except energy.
我对那些拥有投资者想要的除了智力之外的一切，或者除了能量之外的一切的创始人感到不那么兴奋。
The most promising group to be liberated by the new, lower threshold are
最有希望被新的、较低的门槛解放出来的群体是
those who have everything investors want except experience.
那些除了经验之外拥有投资者想要的一切的人。
Market Rate I once claimed that nerds were unpopular in secondary school mainly because they had better things to do than work full-time at being popular.
市场率 我曾经声称，书呆子在中学时不受欢迎，主要是因为他们有比全职工作更好的事情要做，才能受欢迎。
Some said I was just telling people what they wanted to hear.
有人说我只是告诉人们他们想听的话。
Well, I'm now about to do that in a spectacular way: I think undergraduates are undervalued.
好吧，我现在将以一种引人注目的方式做到这一点：我认为本科生被低估了。
Or more precisely, I think few realize the huge
或者更准确地说，我认为很少有人意识到这一巨大的
spread in the value of 20 year olds.
分布在20岁的人身上。
Some, it's true, are not very capable.
确实，有些人能力不强。
But others are more capable than all but a handful of 30 year olds.
但除了少数 30 岁的人之外，其他人比所有人都更有能力。
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