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It took 15 years after finishing college for Reid Hoffman to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. 莱德•霍夫曼在大学毕业后花了15年明白了他长大以后要做什么。
"When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual," he once said . "That is not about quoting Kant. It's about holding up a lens to society and asking 'who are we?' and 'who should we be, as individuals and a society?' But I realized academics write books that 50 or 60 people read, and I wanted more impact."“我从斯坦福大学毕业之后,我的计划是成为一位教授和公共知识分子。”他曾经这么说。“这不是引用康德的话。这是对社会进行观察,然后问‘我们是谁?’‘作为个体和社会,我们应该是谁?’但是我明白学者写的书只有五六十人会看,我想要产生更大的影响。”
He sought out that impact by founding companies — including SocialNet, arguably the first social network — and joining PayPal early on. In December 2002, he cofounded LinkedIn, now a 20 billion-dollar-plus company. The rest is Silicon Valley history.他通过建立公司——包括社交媒体(SocialNet),可以说是第一个社交网络,还通过早期加入贝宝(PayPal)做到了这样的影响。2002年10月,他创建了领英(LinkedIn),目前是一所价值两百亿美元的公司。其余的就是硅谷的历史。
But how did he get there? And what lessons can today's young professionals learn from his incredible success? 但他是怎么做到的?今天年轻的专业人士可以从他的成功中学到什么呢?
To answer those questions Hoffman and Ben Casnocha coauthored a book called "The Start-Up of You."霍夫曼和本•贝佐斯共同写了一本《至关重要的关系》来回答这些问题。
Then, expanding on ideas from that book, they created a slideshow presentation for college grads called "The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful Graduates".然后,依据书中的理念,他们为大学毕业生做了一份幻灯片展示,名为“成功毕业生的3个秘密”。 |