PBS高端访谈:随着初创企业的更迭,科技高潮已经冲击到了威尼斯海滩

 　　GWEN IFILL: Next: replacing surf shops with start-ups, as tech titans move to catch some rays and some waves.Steve Goldbloom reports.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: In San Francisco, computer programmers are like rock stars. Here in Los Angeles, the rock stars are the rock stars. But now that's starting to change, as more entrepreneurs are trading in the high costs of Bay Area living for sunnier space right here in Venice Beach. They even have a name for it, Silicon¹ Beach.

　　But as is the case in San Francisco, the tech boom brings with it both prosperity and its share of problems.

　　CHAD BILLMYER, CEO, Panjo: We're a marketplace for auto², sport, and hobby enthusiasts³.

　　FARBOD SHORAKA, CEO, BloomNation.com: It's awesome⁴ to be by the water and working at the same time.

　　CHAD BILLMYER: Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, I can walk to work. Right? It's going to be sunny. It's going to be 70.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: L.A. Times tech reporter Paresh Dave covers Silicon Beach.

　　PARESH DAVE, The Los Angeles Times: The West Side of Los Angeles has always been sort of a young, hip⁵ district. And things like the weather and being close to the beach, to some, it was attractive. And I think that's what got it started.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Entrepreneur Erik Rannala decided⁶ to relocate to L.A. from the bay area. He co-founded Mucker Capital, the first start-up accelerator to arrive in Silicon Beach. They nurture⁷ and invest in young start-up companies.

　　ERIK RANNALA, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Mucker Capital: I have seen a lot of these buildings switch over from, you know, not tech companies to tech companies.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: BloomNation.com is one of start-ups to graduate from Mucker Capital. They're an online marketplace for handcrafted flower designs.

　　Here's CEO Farbod Shokaka:

　　FARBOD SHORAKA: This is only 1,500 square feet, but we have almost 17 people in this office. So, we're…

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: You're growing.

　　FARBOD SHORAKA: Yes, hopefully we're going to a new office space. It's going to be exciting for us, but good problems to have. We're outgrowing⁸ our current office space.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Don't you need to be where the money is? And isn't the money in Silicon Valley?

　　FARBOD SHORAKA: Money is coming down here now, so it's exciting. We have even investors⁹ coming today to visit us that are from Palo Alto and from Chicago.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: One of the pioneers here of Silicon Beach is Snapchat. It's the enormously popular app among teenagers that lets you share photographs that self-destruct shortly after they arrive. They occupy a full city block right off the beach here in Venice.

　　Last year, they turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook to try to make it here on their own.

　　PARESH DAVE: I think that was sort of a big turning point. And since then, people are like, oh, well, if Snapchat can build a global brand here in Los Angeles, why can't we?

　　ERIK RANNALA: Three years ago, I used to still hear people pitching scripts in coffee shops. Now they're pitching business plans and business ideas for start-ups.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: This is the offices of Epoxy, which doesn't really look like an office, but I'm going to…

　　JUAN BRUCE, Co-Founder, Epoxy: Hello there.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Hello. How you doing?

　　JUAN BRUCE: Hello. Welcome. Welcome to Epoxy.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Steve.

　　JUAN BRUCE: Juan.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Epoxy TV is a social platform for online video creators. They make YouTube stars go viral by leveraging¹⁰ every social media platform under the sun. It's run by Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad.

　　So this is your home or your office?

　　JUAN BRUCE: This is our office. This is the office for Epoxy. And it's got a little bit of an interesting history in that it's actually part of Dennis Hopper's former compound. And this particular building is a Frank Gehry building from the 1980s.

　　Now, the funny thing is a lot of start-ups have these buildings now. There's two start-ups behind.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Two start-ups behind. So, the start-ups are taking over.

　　JUAN BRUCE: Yes.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: As the start-ups move in, some longtime Venice residents are moving out. World-renowned artist Laddie John Dill was the original owner of the Frank Gehry building now occupied by Epoxy TV.

　　LADDIE JOHN DILL, Artist: I moved to Venice in 1968. I was forced to leave my studio of 28 years because the rent was raised to $42,000 a month.

　　Things really started to go sour when Google moved in, so it's now Silicon Beach. The landlords just turned around and raised the rent, to the point where now the artists can't afford to live there.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: The rise of housing costs has lead to big business for Tami Pardee, owner of Pardee Properties. She's the highest selling real estate broker¹¹ in Silicon Beach.

　　TAMI PARDEE, Owner, Pardee Properties: Business has definitely picked up. Over the last two years, we have had 20 percent gains each year, and it's almost completely due to, I would say, the tech sector¹².

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: When did this go on the market?

　　TAMI PARDEE: It just went on yesterday.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: So, how long will it be on the market?

　　TAMI PARDEE: I think it's already sold, to be honest with you.

　　It's really creative, the technology sector, and Venice is known for its creativity in the art — in the whole art world in the past, so it's actually a great meshing¹³ of cultures. There's been a little — as we have talked about, little gentrification issues going — you know, not issues, but gentrification going on, I would say. And that's — it's difficult.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: We're here inside a live-in workspace in Venice. The resident wishes to remain anonymous¹⁴, but he has been showing us around. He's been living here since 1967. There's a few other artists here. And they are going to have to leave at the end of February because they received a notice from the owner.

　　MAN: The family has decided it is time to develop the lot, which unfortunately means…

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Evicting¹⁵…

　　MAN: … word evicting. But I must have everyone out by February 28.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Here's Juan Bruce again of Epoxy TV.

　　JUAN BRUCE: Venice has always been like kind of an experimental and artistic¹⁶ community. And so start-ups pretty much fit perfectly¹⁷ in that kind of ethos.

　　Originally, this was an artists-in-residence live-work loft¹⁸.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: Right.

　　JUAN BRUCE: And now it's still very much a live-work loft, but we're living the start-up life.

　　STEVE GOLDBLOOM: It's clear the tech scene gravitates towards countercultures, the hippies of San Francisco, the rockers of Austin, and now the artists of Venice. But as tech brings with it high-paying jobs and rising home prices, ironically, it makes it difficult for those countercultures to persist.

　　For the "NewsHour" in Los Angeles, I'm Steve Goldbloom.

1 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

2 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

3 enthusiasts   

n.热心人，热衷者( enthusiast的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册

4 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

5 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 nurture   

n.养育，照顾，教育；滋养，营养品；vt.养育，给与营养物，教养，扶持

参考例句：

• The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
• The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。

8 outgrowing   

长[发展] 得超过（某物）的范围( outgrow的现在分词 )； 长[发展]得不能再要（某物）； 长得比…快； 生长速度超过

参考例句：

• Vibrant colors last year around without wilting, watering, or outgrowing their pots early, quantities are limited. 它高贵优雅，不容易萎蔫，不用经常浇水，也不会长出花盆之外。

9 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

10 leveraging   

促使…改变( leverage的现在分词 )； [美国英语]杠杆式投机，（使）举债经营，（使）利用贷款进行投机

参考例句：

• De-leveraging is a painful process: it has barely begun. 去杠杆化是个痛苦的过程：它才刚刚开始。
• Archimedes said, saying: Give me a fulcrum, I can leveraging the Earth. 阿基米德说过一句话：给我一个支点，我可以撬动地球。

11 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。

12 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

13 meshing   

结网，啮合

参考例句：

• The modification of gear is a principal method for improving performance meshing. 齿面修形是提高齿轮副啮合性能的重要手段。
• Exact modeling of gear teeth is based on meshing theory. 摘要根据齿轮啮合原理，建立了轮齿的精确齿形。

14 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

15 evicting   

v.（依法从房屋里或土地上）驱逐，赶出( evict的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Money spent on evicting sex offenders cannot be spent on treating them. 花在打击性侵犯者上的钱并不能花在治疗这一社会问题上。 来自互联网
• Money spent on evicting sex offenders cannot be spent on treating them. Does this matter? 钱被花费在驱逐性犯罪者而不是用做教育他们，这样做真的好么？ 来自互联网

16 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

17 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

18 loft   

n.阁楼，顶楼

参考例句：

• We could see up into the loft from bottom of the stairs.我们能从楼梯脚边望到阁楼的内部。
• By converting the loft,they were able to have two extra bedrooms.把阁楼改造一下，他们就可以多出两间卧室。