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保罗·格雷厄姆:今天人们如何变富·第7则

保罗·格雷厄姆《《今天人们如何变富》》· How People Get Rich Now · 财富 · 投资 · 认知 · 决策

But there's no contradiction here; the startups that raise the most are the ones doing it by choice, in order to grow faster, not the ones doing it because they need the money to survive. There's nothing like not needing money to make people offer it to you. You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. But none of them seem to be. You can almost hear them saying "No, no, not that way." [ 9 ] IBM was created in 1911 by merging three companies, the most important of which was Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company, founded in 1896. In 1941 its revenues were $60 million. Hewlett-Packard's revenues in 1964 were $125 million.

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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 7 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

融资最多的创业公司是主动选择融资来加速增长,而不是因为缺钱活不下去。越不需要钱,别人越愿意给你钱。左翼一直为劳工对抗资本,如今劳工终于占上风,他们却高兴不起来,几乎在说“不,不是这条路”。这说明财富创造方式变了:过去靠继承和剥削,现在靠创造价值。创业者应专注把产品做好、让公司不缺钱,融资自然容易;别为生存而融资,那会显得绝望。

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保罗·格雷厄姆在《如今人们如何致富》中分析现代财富来源的转变,对比老牌公司与硅谷创业公司。

今日一问

你是在为生存而融资,还是在为加速增长而融资?

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