Before you know it, they're going to be talking about their financial situation and how you fit into it.
不可避免的,他们会说到自己的财务状况,以及你是否适合在他们公司出版作品
You know, my personal experience is that the agencies that I've been working for have actually been okay.
我曾经工作过的公司到现在都还不错。
It was Bear Sterns, whose headquarters is right next to Grand Central Station, if you go into New York.
贝尔斯登公司,这家公司的总部紧挨着大中央车站,你一到纽约就能看到
You guys are engineers. You are used to come to the office 10 am in the morning. No. Starting from today, you need to come 9 am in the morning and have a meeting with me."
作为工程师,你们习惯了,早上十点到办公室,但是从明天开始,早上九点你们就得到公司,然后开会“
You know, my experience with this is, when you go from having a small number to a really large number of people, if you don't a process, it becomes real chaos.
我的经验是,公司的员工由很少,增长到很多,如果没有一个程序,很容易乱套。
So Firm 2--if Firm 2 produces all the way up to here then any product produced by Firm 1 is going to push prices even lower.
如果公司2的产量一直增加到这里,那么公司1的每一件产品必须降价出售
And the cause of some thermodynamics have even been applied to economics, systems out of equilibrium, like big companies like Enron, you know, completely out of equilibrium, crash and burn.
热力学中的一些观点,甚至被应用到经济学中,非平衡态系统,比如像安永那样大公司,彻底偏离平衡态,最后破产了。
Did the world economic crisis that happened last year affect your company as well?
去年的世界经济危机也影响到你们公司了吗?
It seems to me that people go to college and then they join their firms and between age of 25 to 35, they learn a lot.
我发现人们上大学,之后进入公司,从25岁到35岁学了大量的东西。
It's eight thirty. I have to be at work at nine.
都八点半了。我必须九点钟到公司。
And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.
作为Facebook的领导者,马克始终坚持选人标准,从不手软,他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为,如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。
Earnings and dividends are different; earnings is the money that the company made in a given year.
收益和股利是不同的,收益是公司在某年赚到的钱
When I started this company back almost nine, ten years ago, I started to recruit talents, recruit engineers, and I wrote in the job description that requires five-plus years of related experience.
大约是9到10年前,公司成立初期,我们开始招聘人才,招聘工程师,职位介绍由我亲自执笔,要求具有五年以上的相关工作经验。
You can see how things are feeding through the system: it starts out in one thing, it goes to the insurance companies, and then it goes to the municipal governments.
你能看到事件是如何在系统里相互影响的,它开始于一件事,它涉及到了保险公司,然后又传递到地方政府
A public--a lot of companies don't want to be public because you can't keep secrets very well; you've got to regularly put those things up online and they're out there for everybody to see.
很多公司不愿意上市,因为这样就无法保守公司机密,你必须定期把公司信息公布到网上,让全世界都看得到
You used to get checks in the mail; now you go on a website and you'll see that your dividends are credited to your account, but money is growing in your account as companies pay out dividends.
你过去习惯于通过挂号信取得支票,现在你登陆网站,就能看到股利自动分发到你的账户,公司支付了股利,帐户中的金额就会增加
Mark Jacob was upset with--he had been an employee of Emulex and had access to inside information of the company.
马克·雅各布曾是Emulex的员工,可以接触到公司的内幕消息
Somebody else owned them, and discovered them, and demanded that they get paid, and ended up negotiating with the company, and we got a kicker.
其他人买了这些债券,发现了这个问题,然后要求偿付,到最后以和公司协商了事,然后我们得到了一个促销品。
Some of the folks that we hired very early on have gone on to great, important positions. One of the guys we hired a couple of years after starting is still on my executive team.
我们早期的员工中有一些,已经晋升到高层,很重要的位置上了,一个员工是,公司创建几年后招进来的,现在在主管团队。
Externality When I'm figuring out how much effort to contribute to this firm I don't take into account that other half of profits that goes to you.
外部性,当我计算要为公司付出多少时,我没考虑到利润的一半会归你所有
We keep all sorts of secrets in our company; we don't want to be filing all of our information all the time and to have it go right up on the website on standard forms so that everyone can easily process it.
我们希望保守公司的秘密,不愿意把公司信息归档,然后立刻以标准格式发布到网上,以便所有人浏览
Shortly after we decide to become a consumer brand, I realized that our technology was not as good.
公司转型后不久,我意识到我们的技术没有那么好。
Suppose Firm 2 has produced all of this quantity up to here.
假设公司2产量一直提高到这里
As we went from a company with $300 million to $3 billion to $60 billion, we had to put processes in place, for sure, to deal with the complexity of what we were trying to accomplish.
我们公司的资产由3亿美元,增加到30亿,600亿,所以我们应该有套程序,来处理这么复杂的情况,实现我们的目标。
Earnings are something that accountants have generated and they've been doing it all the way back to 1871-- it's a venerable concept; it's how much money the company made this year, if it's annual earnings.
收益是会计们算出来的,从1871年来一直如此,他们值得尊敬,年收益指的是公司这一年赚到的钱
They said, it's not going to work because you have to decide how much the house is insured for and then anybody--If you ever make a mistake and you insure it for too much, then the people who realize they've got one on the insurance company-- they've insured the house for more than it's worth-- they'll burn down their house and collect the money.
他们说,火险根本无法实施,因为你必须判断,这房子的保价是多少,一旦你出现了一些失误,保价评估得过高,那些意识到他们可能会从,保险公司赚利的人们-,即保险公司的保价高于房子的实际价值-,他们就会烧掉自己的房子来赚钱。
Today, if you read the newspapers tomorrow, you'll read--we're trying to do the same thing at Motorola and if you bother to read The Wall Street Journal tomorrow or maybe The Times, I don't know you'll see a little bit of what we're trying to do there.
在当今这个时代,如果你明天读报纸,你就会读到我们正在试图对摩托罗拉公司,做和我们刚才所说的同样的事情如果你们不嫌麻烦,读一读《华尔街日报》或者《时代周刊》,我也不知,道你想读什么,你会了解一些我们正在做的事情。
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