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保罗·格雷厄姆《《黑天鹅式投资》》· Black Swan Farming · 领导 · 认知 · 行动 · 哲学

It also reminds you that the vast majority of ideas that seem bad are bad. The fact that the best ideas seem like bad ideas makes it even harder to recognize the big winners. It means the probability of a startup making it really big is not merely not a constant fraction of the probability that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have a disproportionately low probability of the latter. History tends to get rewritten by big successes, so that in retrospect it seems obvious they were going to make it big. For that reason one of my most valuable memories is how lame Facebook sounded to me when I first heard about it. A site for college students to waste time?

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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 4 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

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这也提醒你,绝大多数看起来坏的点子确实是坏的。最好的点子看起来像坏点子,这反而让识别大赢家更难。这意味着,创业公司成为大赢家的概率不仅不是成功概率的固定比例,而且那些高概率成为大赢家的公司,看起来成功概率反而异常低。历史常被巨大成功改写,事后看似乎显而易见。因此,我最宝贵的记忆之一是:第一次听说 Facebook 时觉得它很蹩脚——一个让大学生浪费时间的网站?

上下文

格雷厄姆用 Facebook 的例子说明,事后看显而易见的成功,事前往往显得荒谬。

今日一问

你最近是否因为一个想法“听起来不靠谱”而否定了它?有没有可能它正是黑天鹅?

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