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

Perhaps most convincingly, it would be demoralizing for us to be up to our chins in failure all the time. But I know the real reason we're so conservative is that we just haven't assimilated the fact of 1000x variation in returns. We'll probably never be able to bring ourselves to take risks proportionate to the returns in this business. The best we can hope for is that when we interview a group and find ourselves thinking "they seem like good founders, but what are investors going to think of this crazy idea?" we'll continue to be able to say "who cares what investors think?" That's what we thought about Airbnb, and if we want to fund more Airbnbs we have to stay good at thinking it.

出处: https://paulgraham.com/swan.html
定位:Essay, additional excerpt 6 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

我们保守的真正原因,是还没真正接受回报可能差一千倍这个事实。这种巨大差异意味着,少数项目会赚回所有钱,但多数会失败。我们总是不自觉地回避风险,因为整天面对失败太打击人。但要想投中下一个 Airbnb,就得在听到疯狂想法时,继续问‘谁在乎投资人怎么想?’而不是被别人的看法吓退。具体做法是:在评估项目时,先别管其他投资人怎么看,重点看创始人是否靠谱、想法是否足够颠覆。哪怕看起来不靠谱,也要敢于下注。

上下文

Paul Graham 是 Y Combinator 联合创始人,他在《黑天鹅农场》中讨论早期投资中极端回报分布的现象。

今日一问

你最近是否因为担心别人看法,而放弃了一个看似疯狂但可能很有价值的机会?

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