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保罗·格雷厄姆:亿万富翁如何建造·第3则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《亿万富翁如何建造》》· Billionaires Build · 投资 · 行动 · 决策 · 哲学
Who are your first users going to be, and how do you know they want this? If I had to decide whether to fund startups based on a single question, it would be "How do you know people want this?" The most convincing answer is "Because we and our friends want it." It's even better when this is followed by the news that you've already built a prototype, and even though it's very crude, your friends are using it, and it's spreading by word of mouth. If you can say that and you're not lying, the partners will switch from default no to default yes. Meaning you're in unless there's some other disqualifying flaw. That is a hard standard to meet, though. Airbnb didn't meet it. They had the first part. They had made something they themselves wanted. But it wasn't spreading.
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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 3 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
YC面试中,如果只能问一个问题,那就是“你怎么知道人们想要这个?”最有说服力的回答是“因为我们自己和朋友想要”。如果还能说已经做了粗糙原型,朋友在用,并且口口相传,那合伙人就会从默认拒绝转为默认接受,除非有其他致命缺陷。但这个标准很高,Airbnb就没达到:他们做了自己想要的东西,但当时并没有传播开来。所以,创业者要努力做出人们真正想要并愿意传播的产品。
上下文
保罗·格雷厄姆在《亿万富翁建造者》中,用Airbnb的例子说明YC面试中最关键的问题。
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