关键要点
- YC 最初投的是想法而非创始人,差点错过 Reddit——这是 YC 转向投人的关键一课。
- 伟大的创业公司都有一个惊人的特征:公司与创始人之间 uncanny 的匹配度。
- PG 力推 Reddit 快速上线:被用户提交内容驱动的 Reddit,比 Slashdot(编辑驱动)新鲜得多。
- Reddit 的核心价值如此根本,以至于几乎杀不死——熬过了多次管理动荡。
- Steve Huffman 和 Alexis Ohanian 是 PG 眼中创始人-公司匹配的典范。
—— 本文选自东西书院 dongxishuyuan.com
PG 原话
和所有真正伟大的创业公司一样,公司与创始人之间有着惊人紧密的匹配。
As with all the really great startups, theres an uncannily close match between the company and the founders.
Reddit 这个网站(现在还有 app)是如此根本有用的一样东西,以至于它几乎杀不死。
Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that its almost unkillable.
被用户提交内容驱动,意味着 Reddit 比 Slashdot 新鲜得多。
Being driven by user submissions meant Reddit was fresher than Slashdot.
出处
- 英文原题:The Reddits(2024年3月)
- 原文:https://www.paulgraham.com/reddits.html
- 本书院编译 · 底本为 paulgraham.com 英文原典
中文为本书院编译(意译),关键英文术语保留原文;英文引文逐字核验为原典连续子串。
延伸阅读 · 跨篇互见
美国创业公司若拿不到 x.com,大概率该改名——边缘域名传递的是边缘公司的信号。
If you have a US startup called X and you dont have x.com, you should probably change your name.
having x.com signals strength even if it has no relation to what you do.
场景交集:判断力、发布上线、决策出处:Change Your Name · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
想让人读你写的东西,就用口语写:非正式语言是思想的运动服。
Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas.
If you simply manage to write in spoken language, youll be ahead of 95% of writers. And its so easy to do: just dont let a sentence through unless its the way youd say it to a friend.
场景交集:发布上线、决策出处:Write Like You Talk · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
Segway 之困:看起来太不费力的产品
Segway 失败的原因之一是骑上去显得自大又不费力;更深层的是公司融资太顺、闭门造车,错过了真实用户反馈。
You dont seem to be working hard enough.
Curiously enough, what got Segway into this problem was that the company was itself a kind of Segway.
场景交集:判断力、发布上线出处:The Trouble with the Segway · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
品味客观存在:好艺术的标准
品味不是纯主观的:好艺术是极好地达成了目的(打动受众)的艺术,人类有大量共通点。
Good art (like good anything) is art that achieves its purpose particularly well.
Being good art is thus a property of objects as much as, say, being toxic to humans is: its good art if it consistently affects humans in a certain way.
场景交集:判断力、决策出处:How Art Can Be Good · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
本区为 L2 延展案例(跨篇互见):PG 其他原典中的相关论述,仍属原典直读;引文均为逐字核验。解读与主编观点见 L3(筹备中)。