公众人物毕业演讲 第191期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(4)(在线收听

   Thanks to a mutual friend, we rented our garage to two graduate students at Stanford

  经朋友介绍 我们将车库租给了两个斯坦福研究生
  who had just started a company, who were looking for office space
  他们刚开了一家公司 正在寻找办公场所
  They seem nice
  他们看起来很棒
  There ideas sounded kind of crazy
  他们的想法听起来有些疯狂
  Back then
  当时
  no one had heard of Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  没人听说过拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林
  or the new company with the funny name
  或是他们开的那家名字滑稽的公司
  Google?
  谷歌?
  What?
  什么
  What does that mean?
  这是什么意思
  It doesn't really matter
  这没关系
  As long as you guys pay the rent on time, you guys can build your Google anything here
  只要你们能够按时交房租 管你们是谷歌还是别的什么
  Wednesday moved in, we have late night
  一个周三的深夜
  together in the garage, eating pizza and M&M's
  我们一起坐在车库吃批萨和M&M
  when they talked to me about how their technology could change the world
  他们跟我讲 说自己的技术能够改变世界
  But then they would go on equally excited
  之后他们同样兴奋地告诉我
  about the fact that my house had a washer and dryer
  说我家有洗衣机和烘干机真是太好了
  They made bold proclamations
  他俩很大胆地宣布说
  We are going to organize the entire World Wide Web
  我们将把全球网络组织到一起
  followed by -- which day is recycling day?
  说完之后 他们问我 垃圾回收日是哪一天来着
  And when I asked them how much experience they had to back their ambitious plan
  我问他们 你们有多少经验来支持这一雄心壮志
  they would say well our combined age is almost 50
  他们说 我们的年龄合起来可有将近50岁
  and they were entering a competitive area
  他们进入是一个竞争性极强的领域
  There were many well-funded search engines
  当时有很多资金充裕的搜索引擎公司
  famous at the time, although you probably never heard of them
  当时这些公司都很有名 只是你们可能没听说过
  AltaVista, Lycos, Excite
  比如AltaVista Lycos Excite
  Can you imagine if you wanted to search for something online
  想象一下 要搜索东西的时候你要说
  and you had to say I'm going to AltaVista?
  我要去AltaVista一下 这会是什么感觉
  The answer, that would be kinda awkward
  肯定会显得非常笨拙
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