夜雨聆风@pmarca 说得对。 当一家公司提高生产力后，它不会止步不前。它会拓展客户群，进军新市场，开发新产品。生产力提升赋予你优势，而优势会让你想要做得更多，而不是更少。 历史上没有哪个 CEO 像他这样看待这个问题。x.com/5943622/status…
我一直在使用 Perplexity Computer，它让我意识到任何人都可以把自己的想法变成现实。“十亿美元创业大赛”正是奖励这种精神，谁能用这款电脑打造出一个完整的企业，就有机会赢得高达 100 万美元的奖金！
做你喜欢的事，和你爱的人在一起。 绝对巅峰。
@RamaswmySridhar
says the answer is compound growth—a lesson he learned working on the search ads team at Google: “Eric Schmidt made us write a ‘$100B revenue plan’ in 2007 or 2008. We all thought this was the funniest thing ever. The idea that one company could make $100B sounded preposterous.” “We took it an objective to increase revenue made per 1,000 queries by 5% every quarter. Every single quarter during my time there, we took that as the objective.” “I tell our team, ‘We’re a great company. We want to be an iconic company.’”Snowflake 实现 1 万亿美元营收目标的计划： CEO @RamaswmySridhar 表示，答案是复利增长——这是他在谷歌搜索广告团队工作时学到的经验： “2007年或2008年，埃里克·施密特让我们写一份‘1000亿美元营收计划’。我们都觉得这简直太搞笑了。一家公司能赚到1000亿美元，这听起来简直荒谬至极。” “我们设定的目标是每个季度将每千次查询的收入提高 5%。在我任职期间，每个季度我们都以此为目标。” “我告诉我们的团队，‘我们是一家很棒的公司。我们想成为一家标志性公司。’”
CEO of Blackstone Stephen Schwarzman offers a surprising confession: The man who built a $1 trillion firm never made it past basic math.
黑石集团首席执行官史蒂芬·施瓦茨曼做出了一个令人惊讶的坦白：这位打造了万亿美元公司的传奇人物，数学基础却一直很薄弱。
"Don't think when you go into finance, it's just about numbers. I didn't even make it, you know, to calculus."
“别以为进入金融行业就只是跟数字打交道。我连微积分都没学过。”
When asked how someone with such limited math skills became so successful, Schwarzman's answer cuts straight to the point:
当被问及数学能力如此有限的人是如何取得如此成功的，施瓦茨曼的回答直截了当：
"Because finance is not about math. It's really figuring out what makes sense."
“因为金融不是数学，而是真正弄清楚什么才是合理的。”
Most people assume finance is a numbers game, where the best investors simply out-math the room.
大多数人认为金融是一场数字游戏，最优秀的投资者只需在数学上胜过其他人即可。
Schwarzman disagrees entirely.
施瓦茨曼完全不同意。
He continues:
他继续说道：
"If a company's going to grow, why? It's not the numbers that come from it. It's the why. Why is that happening? Is that going to continue to happen? Is it going to get better or is it going to get worse?"
“如果一家公司要发展壮大，原因是什么？关键不在于最终的数字，而在于背后的原因。为什么会发生这种情况？这种情况会持续下去吗？情况会好转还是会恶化？”
For Schwarzman, the real edge in finance is judgment — the ability to look beyond the numbers and understand the story behind them:
对于施瓦茨曼来说，金融领域的真正优势在于判断力——能够透过数字看到背后的故事：
"This isn't a financial skill per se. It's judgment. It involves understanding in a general sense. It's figuring out what seems reasonable."
“这本身并不是一项金融技能，而是一种判断力，需要对事物有基本的了解，需要判断什么是合理的。”
Schwarzman built one of the most powerful investment firms in history not by out-calculating everyone, but by out-thinking them.
施瓦茨曼打造了历史上最强大的投资公司之一，不是靠算计胜过所有人，而是靠思维胜过所有人。
确实如此。我记得在我第一次见到埃隆时，他说：“做一些有损自尊的事情，因为有损自尊的事情对生意有好处。” 他指的是要确保我们在会议上讨论我们所有失败的地方。
one of the most remarkable things about
@pmarca
and@bhorowitz
is how they just constantly share everything they learn about the world online freely i've lost count of the number of the times they'll mention something to me as interesting, then a year later the world pivots around it i've gotten much better at listening after working with them@pmarca 和 @bhorowitz 最令人瞩目的特点之一就是他们不断地、免费地在网上分享他们了解到的所有关于世界的信息。 我已经数不清有多少次他们跟我说某件事很有趣，然后一年后，全世界都围绕着它运转了。 和他们一起工作后，我的倾听能力大大提高了。
