埃里克采访中英对比翻译剖析.docVIP

For today’s class session, Reid Hoffman interviewed our special guest, Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet (and formerly the chairman and CEO of Google). You can see the video of the class?here. 在今天节目中，雷德·霍夫曼采访了特别来宾，Alphabet公司的主席，Eric Schmidt（谷歌前主席兼CEO）。可以在此观看采访视频。 Q: You had a substantive career before Google, both at Sun and Novell. What did you learn that helped at Google. A: I went to visit my old boss at Xerox PARC, Bob Taylor. He was the person who funded the ARPANET and defined the personal computer.?As a young manager, the rule is that you absorb everything.?My first experience at Sun colored the next 30 years of development. The next 5 years are when you’ll learn all the little things about leadership. Sun was tumultuous and political. Companies can reorganize prematurely, become religious. There was a meeting where we realized we could not match the cost of PCs. That was the signal that we needed to change. I went to Novell under the mistaken goal of being a CEO. I didn’t do the due diligence, and if I had, I wouldn’t have gone. Our basic goal was to get out with our professional reputations intact and not end up in jail. The books were cooked, and people were frauds. But it turns out you can overcome that, and the skills I developed helped at Google. I understood the rule of cash, so we did everything we could to manage for revenue, and the rest is history. 问：去谷歌工作之前，你在Sun和Novell公司任职多年，这两段职业经验中什么对你在谷歌的工作有帮助？ 答：我在施乐帕克研究中心拜访了我以前的老板， Bob Taylor。他为阿帕网提供资金，并定义了个人电脑。作为一位年轻的管理者，规则就是需要吸收一切。我首次在Sun的工作经历丰富了我未来30年的发展。未来的5年则是学习管理方面所有的细节。Sun公司很吵闹，又分派别。公司过早地重组，变得具有宗教性。在一次会议中，我们意识到个人电脑的利润还不够成本费，这就是我们需要改变的信号。 去Novell时，我一心想成为CEO。那时我没有做到该做的努力，并且，如果做到了，就不会去Novell。我们基本的目标是，靠专业的声誉完好无损地走向发展，而不是在监狱里结束职业生涯。那些书上说的都是骗人的，人们是骗子。但最后能够克服这个困难，在这里学到的技巧对我在谷歌的工作有帮助。 我了解到了资金的重要性，所以我们做任何能做的去争取资金，剩下的就只是过去。 Q: Is there anything you’d tell your younger self? A: Do things sooner and make fewer mistakes. The question is, what causes me not to make those decisions quickly. Some people are quic