风投公司是金字塔型的，在顶端有像Sequoia和Kleiner Perkins这样的名人，但是其下有许许多多你听都没听到过的家伙，其共同点就是他们的一块钱就是值一块钱。

VCs form a pyramid. At the top are famous ones like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, but beneath those are a huge number you've never heard of.

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但是他们听到的不是斧子——只是一条灌木一直绑在一颗干枯的树上，风把它吹的一动一动的。

But it was not an axe they heard — only a branch which still hung on a withered tree, and was moved up and down by the wind.

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没有一丝的风，从打开的窗户里，我能听到有一群老光棍在路灯下下棋，他们互相咒骂嘲笑对方的臭棋。

There was not a trace of a breeze. Through the open window, I could hear a chess party, a group of old bachelors under a street lamp, laughingly cursing one another's moves on the chessboard.

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