Max Hodak
① 他说过的话
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如果你每周都能学到一件事，而有一个竞争对手每个月才学到一件事，那他们永远不会有影响力。
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if you can learn one thing every week and there’s a competitor that’s learning a thing every month, they will never matter.
—— Max Hodak · [18:59]
速度决定成败，而速度由基础设施决定。
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So speed determines success and failure and speed is determined by infrastructure.
—— Max Hodak · [19:29]
我经常看到由顶级背景的科学家和工程师创立的公司，却半途夭折，因为当你的工作是组织管理时，这种执行很难贯彻下去。
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I see companies founded by just like stellar pedigree scientists and engineers all the time that die on the vine because this execution is tough to follow through when your job is to organize.
—— Max Hodak · [19:43]
这些深科技公司失败的原因很少是因为技术行不通。
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It’s uncommon that these deep tech companies fail because the technology doesn’t work.
—— Max Hodak · [19:54]
这主要不是因为我们更聪明，而是这样的基础设施——速度就是这样建立起来的。
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It is mostly not that we are smarter, it is infrastructure like this, that is the, like how speed is built.
—— Max Hodak · [06:10]
因此，实验是免费的。
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Therefore, experiments are free.
—— Max Hodak · [07:07]
按我的经验，最好的公司来自可以被描述为「圈子」的东西。
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The best companies, in my experience, come from what might be characterized as scenes.
—— Max Hodak · [09:12]
没有正确答案，但错误的答案肯定是：公司里没有一个你非常虔诚地坚持去做的事情。
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There is no right answer, but a wrong answer for sure is not having something that you do very religiously as a company.
—— Max Hodak · [10:16]
而如果你把任何一小群员工或任何一个人放在中间作为瓶颈，他们绝对会成为整个组织其余部分的瓶颈。
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And if you place any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.
—— Max Hodak · [11:59]
你是否擅长让世界变成你希望它成为的样子？
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And are you effective at causing the world to look like you wish it were?
—— Max Hodak · [13:20]
根据我的经验，这是一个非常具有破坏性的流程，它往往不会浮现出那些你还不知道的问题，它只会强化你已经知道但尚未采取行动的事情，因为你知道那个问题存在，但是开除人很难，所以人们会拖延，这基本上就是在强化你已经知道的事情。
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Based on my experiences, this is a very disruptive process that doesn’t tend to surface issues that you don’t already know about but haven’t acted on because you knew that thing was there, but firing people is hard, and so people drag their feet on it, and this is kind of reinforcing things you already knew.
—— Max Hodak · [16:03]
作为创业公司创始人，更难的教训之一，我认为真正难以应对的事情之一，就是你无法把你的判断委托给别人。
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And one of the harder lessons as a startup founder, one of the harder things I think to really deal with is the fact that you cannot delegate your judgment.
—— Max Hodak · [20:32]
你可能让自己陷入麻烦，而行动空间总是比看起来要大。
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You can get yourself into trouble, and the action space is always larger than it appears.
—— Max Hodak · [22:09]
公司如何做采购、会计、招聘、绩效评估、预算、安全和质量，就是这家公司的操作系统。
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How the company does purchasing and accounting and recruiting and performance reviews and budgeting and safety and quality is the operating system of the company.
—— Max Hodak · [24:00]
如果没有一个清晰可见的竞技比赛，很难知道自己是否卓越。
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It is tough to know if you’re exceptional without having some legible competitive game.
—— Max Hodak · [27:26]
如果人工智能探索的终点是超级智能机器，我认为脑机接口探索的终点是有意识的机器。
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If the end of the artificial intelligence quest is super intelligent machines, I think the end of the BCI quest is conscious machines.
—— Max Hodak · [31:28]
所以我们发现它们是团队的乘数，而不是替代品。
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And so we found them to be a multiplier for the team, not a replacement.
—— Max Hodak · [35:48]
我的意思是，我们确实需要对一些东西放松监管，但我认为 AI 和监管的结合比人们想象的更匹配。
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I mean, we definitely need to deregulate some things, but I think that the combination of AI and regulation is a better fit than people think.
—— Max Hodak · [37:26]
市面上有 ERP 系统，但没有哪家公司爱他们的 ERP 系统。
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There are ERP systems out there, but there’s no company that loves their ERP system.
—— Max Hodak · [37:49]
其中一件事是，确实有一些想法值得用 5000 万美元或 0 美元来资助，但不值得用 500 万美元。
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And one of the things, like there are definitely some ideas that are worth funding with 0, but not $5 million.
—— Max Hodak · [43:49]
感觉上，公司就像在不断地缓慢死于一种金钱癌症，我们每隔几年靠融资把它打到缓解期，但它最终会回来，我想让这种感觉结束。
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It feels like, I mean, the company is kind of constantly dying slowly of this money cancer that we can beat into remission every couple of years with the fundraising, but then it eventually comes back and I want that feeling to be over.
—— Max Hodak · [45:17]
我是说，我认为，除了「速度是成功的基础，而基础设施决定你的速度」之外，很重要的一点是要认识到：不存在通用原则。
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I mean, I think if other than speed being the basis of success and infrastructure determines your speed, it is important to appreciate that there are no general principles.
—— Max Hodak · [46:15]
就像在人类历史的绝大部分时间里，如果你是一个聪明的 20 岁年轻人，有了一个让自己的社会变得更好的想法，你把它讲给有钱人听，反应会是：你应该去关心收成。
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Like for the vast majority of human history, if you were a smart 20 year old that like had an idea to like make your society better and you raise this to the people with capital, the reaction was like, you should pay attention to the harvest.
—— Max Hodak · [46:47]
你打开脑深部刺激器，患者在大约 10 秒内从无法端起一杯水变成能够写连笔字。
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You turn on a deep brain stimulator and a patient goes from not being able to hold a cup of water to being able to write cursive in like 10 seconds.
—— Max Hodak · [41:20]
但即使原则上你也无法换一个新大脑。
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You cannot even in principle get a new brain.
—— Max Hodak · [42:06]
我是说，生意其实就是一个用来形容「和人交谈并做事」的花哨词。
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I mean, business is just like a fancy word for talking to people and doing things.
—— Max Hodak · [50:23]
你无法分享军事力量或经济力量，但你可以分享让盲人重见光明或让癌症病人重获生命的力量。
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You can’t share military power or economic power, but you can share the power of restoring sight to the blind or of giving life to the cancer patient.
—— Max Hodak · [55:40]
如果你能每周学到一件事,而有一个竞争对手每月才学到一件事,他们就永远无关紧要了。
指向原始笔记的链接
if you can learn one thing every week and there’s a competitor that’s learning a thing every month, they will never matter.
—— Max Hodak · [18:59]
你不能委托你的判断。
指向原始笔记的链接
you cannot delegate your judgment.
—— Max Hodak · [20:38]
绝对有一些想法值得用 5000 万美元或 0 美元资助,但不值得 500 万美元。
指向原始笔记的链接
there are definitely some ideas that are worth funding with 0, but not $5 million.
—— Max Hodak · [43:53]
我认为在短期内,BCI 真的只是一个长寿的故事。
指向原始笔记的链接
I think in the near term, BCI is really a longevity story.
—— Max Hodak · [40:27]
如果人工智能探索的终点是超级智能机器,我认为脑机接口探索的终点是有意识的机器。
指向原始笔记的链接
If the end of the artificial intelligence quest is super intelligent machines, I think the end of the BCI quest is conscious machines.
—— Max Hodak · [31:28]
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