故事来源, 已经产生了累计4000亿美元的公司

来源: mjnew 于 2023-10-19 11:04:13 [] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 阅读数 : (18973 bytes)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-years-ago-we-created-thiel-fellowship-jim-o-neill/

A surge of regulations surely chilled innovation, but beyond that it was hard to blame pessimism or oil prices when the slowdown had lingered for decades. Stagnant wages were clearly an effect and not a cause. We decided that the hidden factor was talent. In the 1950s and 1960s, the smartest young people flocked to the frontiers of discovery. In the 1970s, though, they became doctors; in the 1980s they became lawyers; and in the 1990s they went to Wall Street. These were well-defined careers with brightly lit gates welcoming crowds down paths that were easy to follow.

What happened to the American archetype of quitting your job to invent something in your garage? Debt happened, we decided. I had previously lost a cofounder because of student debt payments, and we realized such debt made it hard to quit your job and start a company. Tuition had skyrocketed in the previous decades, and the burden of student debt had followed. Credential inflation had encouraged young Americans to earn more degrees than their parents just to keep the same standard of living.

At this point we realized we could make a difference. We could rescue a few people a year and give them permission to start companies before they took on the debt and career-tracking of college. We could also send a signal to their generation that college was a particular good with measurable costs and benefits and that postponing a career to make such a huge purchase should never be a default. We resolved to create a two-year fellowship, call it the 20 under 20 Thiel Fellowship, and give each fellow a grant of $100,000. Our plane landed at SFO and we announced it the next day.

 

Thiel Fellows went on to invent technologies, assemble teams, iterate, fail, and try again. You may know about Figma, Luminar, Upstart, Ethereum, Freenome, Fossa, Augur, Polkadot, or Workflow (which is now part of Siri). Overall, they founded companies worth about four hundred billion dollars, but that figure hardly captures the animations, computer languages, science journals, nonprofits, and venture funds; or the physics, biology, and software tools they devised

 

 

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• 他要真有钱可以帮人还了学贷再创业。要人没毕业就给他干就是在养佃农啊。 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:09:05

• 只能说他不是你对有钱人要求的那种有钱人，也说明资本的力量就是大啊 -两女宝妈- ♀ 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:11:22

• 这人是德国人，抠门儿 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:12:43

• no equity taken -mjnew- ♂ 给 mjnew 发送悄悄话 (168516 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:12:09

• 让人commit两年最好的时间，他只花十万块还获得投资的最好机会，算盘打得不错。这钱就是矿厂雇暑假intern的开销 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:14:33

• 所以这就是ScaleAI和矿工的区别。一个没有啥risk，可以成为富人，一个risk很大，但是能成为富豪。 -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:18:53

• 他给人2年10万。大学要娃付4年40万，还commite4年时间，事情就怕比较。对牛人来说，读大学亏大了 -mjnew- ♂ 给 mjnew 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:19:22

• 至少他没有胁迫年轻人，那就是买卖 -两女宝妈- ♀ 给 两女宝妈 发送悄悄话 两女宝妈 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:21:44

• 当然 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:28:23

• 你不喜欢risk，一点问题都没有呀。：） -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:23:03

• 每人有自己承担风险的方式，钱什么时候挣都不晚。 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:27:03

• 其实越年轻创业，风险还是越小的。总不至于等到中年创业，家里有老有小，都等着吃饭。 -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (254 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:37:39

• 我觉得创业可以以耐心等待毕业再做，人也成熟些，独立些。本科没毕业做还要靠着sugar daddy不健康。 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:41:01

• 那就看创业人是否有闯劲啊。连创业都患得患失的，能成功吗？ -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:17:01

• 为创业去卖身不值。公平的交易要求双方都take risk，不能是单向的 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:18:11

• 那就不用卖身，自己父母那里可以弄10万。但是后期投资呢？这个10万不过是个Angel fund。 -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (210 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:21:21

• 天下VC也不是他一家，别人也不需要放弃自己的学业去卖身。 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:24:29

• 那就说说你都认识哪些VC，或者有哪些VC可以提供投资的。 -Pilsung- ♂ 给 Pilsung 发送悄悄话 (603 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:31:00

• 钱不是一切，创业也不是一切，犯不着那么猴急 -whaled- ♂ 给 whaled 发送悄悄话 (65 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:34:37

• 他为啥要浪费钱？2年10万就能搞定的事，为啥要多花钱 -mjnew- ♂ 给 mjnew 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:17:35

• 紫檀只会盯着钱，他这个项目不是钱的事，而是提供的强大的network，那是千金难买的资源。 -windyLL- ♀ 给 windyLL 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:24:32

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