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保罗·格雷厄姆：如何创造财富·第4则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《如何创造财富》》· How to Make Wealth · 投资 · 成长 · 行动 · 领导
Starting or joining a startup is thus as close as most people can get to saying to one's boss, I want to work ten times as hard, so please pay me ten times as much. There are two differences: you're not saying it to your boss, but directly to the customers (for whom your boss is only a proxy after all), and you're not doing it individually, but along with a small group of other ambitious people. It will, ordinarily, be a group. Except in a few unusual kinds of work, like acting or writing books, you can't be a company of one person. And the people you work with had better be good, because it's their work that yours is going to be averaged with. A big company is like a giant galley driven by a thousand rowers. Two things keep the speed of the galley down.
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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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加入或创办初创公司，相当于对老板说：我愿意付出十倍努力，请付我十倍报酬。区别在于，你直接对客户说（老板只是中间人），而且不是单干，是和一小群有野心的人一起干。除了演戏、写书等少数工作，你没法一个人成公司。所以队友必须靠谱，因为你的工作成果会和他们的平均。大公司像千人划的巨船，速度被拖慢：一是划桨的人太多，协调成本高；二是每个人只出一点点力，难以衡量。初创公司小，反而能快。
上下文
格雷厄姆解释初创公司为何能放大个人努力，并强调小团队协作的重要性。
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你现在的团队是“千人划大船”还是“小艇快划”？你能怎么减少协调损耗？
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