盖文·贝尔森怎么能宣称'魔笛手'是他的呢 How can Gavin Belson claim that he owns Pied Piper?
这整个诉讼就是胡闹 是吧 I mean, this whole lawsuit is insane, right?
那我问问你 理奇 Well, let me ask you something, Richie--
我需要你实话实说 And I need you to be totally straight with me--
'魔笛手'和你在'互利'工作时 Was Pied Piper related in any way
所负责的项目有任何关系吗 to what you were doing when you were working at Hooli?
没有 一点关系都没有 No. No, not at all.
我当时的任务是对手机短信业务的质量把关 I was doing quality assurance for mobile messaging.
和压缩一点关系都没有 It had nothing to do with compression.
他们那时甚至都没有压缩部门 They didn't even have a Compression Division at that time.
那你在'互利'工作时是否在工作时间 And did you work on Pied Piper on Hooli time
或使用'互利'的设备进行过 or use Hooli equipment to develop it in any way
'魔笛手'的开发 理奇 at any time, Richie?
没有 也没有 No, and no.
很好 顺便说一句 Great. And by the way,
坚持你的说法 你自己也要相信这个说法 Always tell me that... and tell yourself that.
因为只要你自己相信 陪审团也就信了 Because if you believe it, a jury will, too.
我的确相信 因为这是事实 Oh, I--I do believe it. It's the truth.
太好了 这一句甚至比刚才更真实可信 Great. That one was even better than the other one.
我喜欢 一个字都不要改 I love it. Always say it exactly like that.
好吧 这个 Yeah, okay. Look...
我们能赢 对吧 we're going to win this, right?
理奇 如果你刚才告诉我的是真话 Richie, if what you just told me is the truth--
如果你说谎了也千万别告诉我 and don't tell me if you lied--
盖文什么证据都没有 Gavin's got nothing here.
这是典型的恐吓诉讼 This is a classic intimidation lawsuit
目的就是绊住你 好让'纽核力'尽早上市 designed to freeze you until after Nucleus comes to market.
里面这些破词都用烂了 It's got all the usual boiler played nonsense,
"违约" "不当得利" "breach of contract," "unjust enrichment,"
还"违约雇用"了 "breach of non-solicitation"
一位名叫唐纳德·邓恩的仁兄 in the hiring of someone named Donald Dunn.
贾里德 我们叫他贾里德 Jared. We call him Jared.
通过改名来躲官司 高明 不过无关紧要 Changing his name to get out of it--clever but irrelevant,
因为我们关心的只有知识产权的归属问题 because all we care about are the intellectual-property claims.
我们也一定会赢 And we will win this...
-很好 -但我们得请律师武装起来 -Good. -But we're going to have to lawyer up.
什么意思 你不就是我们的律师吗 What do you mean? Aren't you our lawyer?
我不是诉讼律师 那才是你需要的 I'm not a litigator. That's what you need.
请别的律师 真的吗 Another lawyer? Really?
是律师"们"理奇 这一点你可马虎不得 Lawyers, Richie. You don't want to mess around here.
你一个年轻创业者 还背着知识产权诉讼 A young start-up with an ip lawsuit hanging over its head?
我可不想和这样的人组队 I wouldn't want to be a part of that team.
可是你已经是我们队的一员了啊 Well, but you are a part of that team.
我要跟的队伍是走上正规的队伍 I'm part of the team that team is on.
好吧 但听起来要花很多钱 Yeah. It's--it just sounds really expensive.
你不是刚刚被这份风投协议射了一脸的钱吗 Says the guy who just got bukkaked with fat term sheets.
做生意就是这样 理奇 Welcome to the business, Richie.
你看 不管融资到了什么份上 Look, wherever we're at with your funding,
律师费肯定会被写进合同里的 legal fees will be worked into the deal.
有'拉维加'撑你 不用愁钱 You've got Raviga. You're covered.
放心吧 Relax.
"我们撤资" 什么意思 "我们撤资" "We're out"? What do you mean, "we're out"?
结合上下文难道意思还不明显吗 Was it not clear from the context?
我们'拉维加'不再对'魔笛手'注资 We at Raviga are out of the business of funding Pied Piper,
至少跟'互利'的官司出结果之前不行 at least while the Hooli lawsuit remains unresolved.
那诉讼完全就是无理取闹 That suit is total nonsense.
"无理取闹"不能量化 莫妮卡 Nonsense is not a quantifiable metric, Monica.
风险可以 Risk is.
投资任何刚起步的公司风险都很大 Funding any early-stage company is a high-risk proposition,
但这种不确定性和有法律争议的 but compound that uncertainty with a legal cloud
知识产权结合起来综合考虑 就不可接受了 over the company's intellectual property, and it's untenable.
这仅仅是投资风险而已 还有法律风险 And that is just the financial risk. There is also a legal risk.
我们可能会被卷进与盖文·贝尔森的诉讼中 We could become embroiled in Gavin Belson's lawsuit
罪名是协助与教唆 for aiding and abetting.
而且对公司而言还有政治上的风险 And there is a political risk... for the firm,
作为公司新掌门的我更是有风险 but especially for me as its new leader.
从公司内部到所有业界都在高度关注我 I'm being heavily scrutinized from both within and without.
我可不想让我在后彼得时代的第一项决策 I cannot have my first decision post-Peter
有一个如此麻烦的开端 be one with such dubious fundamentals.
就是单纯的决策而已 It's a rudimentary decision.
我该怎么跟他们说 How am I supposed to tell them this?
就我个人经验而言 你最好看着对方的眼睛 In my experience, it's best to look a person in the eye
以关怀和同情的姿态告知对方 and deliver the information with warmth and compassion.
好吧 Okay.
还有一个建议 One other suggestion--
告诉他们的时候穿得丑点 dress unattractively when you tell them.
我读过一个研究 他们越对你不感"性"趣 I read a study. The less sexual interest they feel for you,
这件事就会越顺利 虽然听起来怪 the less perturbing it will be. It sounds strange,
但结果很可信 but it's credible.
我建议穿米色 May I suggest the--the beige ensemble
也就是你周二穿来上班那套 in which you came to work... Tuesday?
'拉维加'的情况发生了一些变化 Things are just really different at Raviga,
我完全没参与作此决定 and I had nothing to do with the decision.
伙计们 我非常非常抱歉 Guys, I'm so, so sorry.
等等 所以对我们出价最高的公司 Wait, so the company that offered us the most
后来被理查德压价到最低 until Richard talked them into offering us the least
现在一分钱都不想出了 is now offering us nothing?
但你的歉意让事态变得没那么糟了 But the fact that you're so sorry makes it all better.
你们会没事的 你们一定能找到另一家 You guys will be fine. You'll find someone else.
我们不想找别家 莫妮卡 We don't want someone else, Monica.
我们之所以选择你们 The whole point of going with you guys
就是因为我们信任你们 was because we trust you guys.
-信任过 -我们依然持有5%的股权 -Trusted. -We still have our 5% stake,
劳里说我仍然可以进入董事会 And Laurie said that I can still sit on the board,
也就是说我依然可以参与各种会议 which means I can still come to meetings--
我能说一句吗 Can I say something here?
首先 莫妮卡 你那穿得超丑 First off, Monica, you're not fooling any of us for even a second
好让我们好受点的手段根本骗不了我们 with your dress-shitty-to-ease-the-pain routine.
这是典型的分手把戏 It's a classic chick break-up move,
而且这点你也不太在行 你看起来很美 and you're not very good at it either. You look great.
是啊 你很适合米色 Yeah, beige is a good color for you.
你是秋季肤色 You're a true Autumn.
其次 谁在乎呢 Secondly, who cares?
我们收到的世界顶级的风投公司 We have a three-foot stack of term sheets
发来的风投协议能摞到一米高 from the top VCs on the face of the planet.
虽然首选没成功 就像Jay-Z说的 So the top one fell out. As Jay-z says,
那就选下一个 on to the next one.
贾里德 我们的第二选择是谁 Jared, who's our next best offer?
综合考虑出价和名气的话 Uh, between the numbers and the reputation,
是科曼-布莱尔合资公司 that would be Coleman Blair Partners.
我去整理一下仪容 I'm gonna go put my face on.
给科曼-布莱尔打电话 Call Coleman Blair.
告诉他们今年圣诞老人提前来了 Tell them that Santa Claus is coming early this year,
而且带来了一大袋的魔笛手 and he's bringing a big bag of Pied Piper.
我准备不跟你告别就离开这里 Well, I'm going to leave this room without saying goodbye to you.
我觉得你一定可以凭你其中一张嘴脸走出去 I'm sure you can find your way out with one of your two faces.
我很抱歉 Sorry about that.
他们只是有点情绪化 The guys are just a little emotional.
不 我明白 No, I--I get it.
听着 我也许不该说 And look, I probably shouldn't say this,
但这里有很多优秀的风投公司 but there are a lot of really great VCs in town.
你们一定没问题的 You'll be fine.
-我只是 -只是什么 -I just... -Just what?
告诉他们你很激动 Just tell them that you're really excited
可以和他们合作 to be in business with them
然后尽快签署协议 and try to close quickly.
趁着你们还掌握些主动权 You know, while momentum is still on your side.
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这将让沙山路上的很多人伤心 Well, it's gonna break a lot of hearts on Sand Hill Road,
但恭喜你们 but congratulations.
我们决定和你们合作 We decided to go with you.
据我们所知你们选择了'拉维加' Uh, we were told that you were going with Raviga.
我很高兴地通知你 时过境迁 And I am happy to say that is no longer the case.
能与你们合作我们很激动 We're really excited to be in business with you guys.
我能问一下 是你们放弃了他们 Can I ask--did you walk away from them,
还是他们因为诉讼放弃了你们 or did they walk away from you because of the lawsuit?
我们认为那个诉讼简直是无稽之谈 Ah, that lawsuit we know to be frivolous.
是啊 Yeah.
这说明你们同意了吗 Is that a "Yes" folder?
不 No.
今天没有点心吃啊 So no pastries today, huh?
沃德欧泊基金
'拉维加'和'科曼-布莱尔合资公司' So both Raviga and Coleman Blair Partners
都因为诉讼放弃了投资 passed because of the lawsuit?
无聊的诉讼 小事一桩 Frivolous suit. It's nothing.
那可不是小事 Well, it's not nothing.
听着 在我们开始唱衰对方之前 Look, before we start negging each other...
-唱衰 -把妹时会用到这个词 -Negging? -It's a term used in sexual manipulation.
大概用在这里不适合 Maybe not relevant here.
我们真的很期待和你们成为生意伙伴 We're really excited to be in business with you guys.
索森-格雷弗斯基金
其实我们对这起官司很乐观 We actually see this lawsuit as a positive.
我们会赢 而且这起官司也证明了 We will win, and it proves
我们有让别人想要起诉的资本 that we have something worth suing over.
但是'拉维加' '科尔曼·布莱尔合资' And yet Raviga, Coleman Blair Partners,
和'沃德欧泊基金'都拒绝了你们 and Wood Opal Fund have all passed.
我们真的很期待和你们成为生意伙伴 We're really excited to be in business with you guys.
你们清楚风投协议不具有法律效力吧 You know term sheets aren't legally binding documents, right?
是不具有法律效力 Of course not.
这只是大家都会遵守的协定 They're just guidelines that people follow,
当然 除非他们是娘炮 Unless, of course, they're pussies.
你们三天前在这里 You came in here three days ago.
态度傲慢 居高临下 言辞激烈 You were arrogant, condescending, and offensive.
现在你们过来 说我是娘炮 Now you come in here, you call me a pussy--
我没说你是娘炮 I did not call you a pussy.
我说不遵守风投协议的人是娘炮 I said that people who break term-sheet agreements are pussies,
而目前 还没人违约 and that hasn't happened... yet.
因此 目前 我也没说你是娘炮 Thus I haven't called you a pussy... yet.
这个完全由你决定 You're in control of the situation.
'互利'拥有无限资源可以用来打击你们 Hooli has the unlimited resources to hamstring you
等'纽核力'推向市场时 until Nucleus comes out, at which point,
他们将会成为市场标准 they will be the market standard,
而你们将变得无足轻重 and you will be irrelevant.
我们是来投资创新科技的 We're here to invest in innovation,
而不是用来付律师费 not lawyers,
所以让我跟你们说清楚 so let me be perfectly honest with you.
你们的行为 Your behavior
粗鲁 又幼稚... was boorish and juvenile...
你们粗鲁 低俗 毫无教养 You were rude, vulgar and uncouth.
你们令人不悦 无礼 天真 You were course, graceless and puerile.
猥琐 侮辱人 无知 Obscene, insulting and ignorant.
无知 Ignorant?
你骂我是屎堆出来的土逼 You called me a shit-riddled anal wasteland.
你骂我是鸡鸡不离口的集邮男 You called me a chode gargling fuck-toilet.
我们真的很期待和你们成为生意伙伴 We're really excited to be in business with you guys.
各位 我不愿让大家心慌 Uh, guys, I hate to panic you
但我非常确定现在很有这个必要 until I'm absolutely sure it's warranted,
理查德刚发来短信 我们被第七家拒绝了 But Richard just texted me. We got our seventh pass.
-操 -盖文·贝尔森操你妈 -Fuck. -Fuckin' Gavin Belson.
风投基金都不看好我们 All the VCs turned on us.
上次埃利希似乎用了些 Apparently, Erlich used some
相当侮辱人 跟阴道有关的比喻 pretty assertive vaginal metaphors last round,
所以现在情况不太妙 so it's been a bit of an uphill climb.
我觉得得再次降低我们的开销比率 I think we're going to have to crunch our burn-rate again.
即使算上从'科技博客'赢来的五万美金 Even with the $50,000 from TechCrunch,
我们也撑不了多久 we're not going to last very long.
等等 停 停 Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no.
理查德说过那笔钱是给我们几个分的 Richard said we were going to split that money, right?
-每人一万 -我想我们承担不起了 -$10,000 each? -I don't think we can afford to do that anymore.
操 Fuck!
我刚给表弟瓦基德的众筹网集资捐了五千刀 I just donated $5,000 to my cousin Wajeed's Kickstarter campaign.
他正在做一个叫做'哥们好'的应用 He's trying to get an app called... Bro off the ground.
-哥们好 -是一款消息应用 用来发送"哥们" -Bro? -It's a messaging app that lets you send the word "Bro"
给别的装了这款软件的人 to everyone else who has the app.
简直就是那个"你好"应用的翻版 So it's exactly like the "Yo" app.
对 不过原创性没那么高 Yes, but less original.
你为什么不取消你的信用卡 Why don't you just cancel your credit card?
这样众筹网就收不到你的钱 That way Kickstarter can't collect your pledge.
我是很想 但是他很尊敬我 Well, I would love to, but he looks up to me.
一直以来我都是我家族孩子辈的榜样 I was always like the cool cousin of the family.
明白我的意思吗 You know what I mean?
-等等 -所以我不能... -Wait. -So I can't...
你刚说你是同辈的榜样吗 Did you just say you were the cool cousin?
是的 Yeah.
麻烦解释一下 Please explain.
我们还小的时候 取得好成绩的是我 Well, when we were kids, I was the one getting good grades,
会为将来做规划的人是我 I was the one who was planning for my future.
我会给老师送礼物 因为他们太辛苦了 I would bring gifts for my teachers, 'cause they worked so hard.
都很值得别人学习 You know, cool stuff.
而他总是惹麻烦 He was always getting in trouble,
他被抓到在工具房抽鸦片 he got caught smoking opium in the tool shed,
他把我叔叔的摩托车撞坏了 he crashed my uncle's motorbike.
你觉得自己比较酷吗 And you think you're the cool one?
对 巴基斯坦的酷法跟这里不一样 Yeah, it's different in Pakistan.
我从没去过 但我敢肯定不是这回事 I've never been, but I know it isn't.
找到了 '哥们儿好' Oh, here it is--"Bro to Bro
是一款单比特聊天软件 is a one-bit communication messenger,
以最快的方式传递心声 the fastest way to speak your mind.
只要你心里想着的是"哥们儿" As long as what's on your mind is the word "Bro".
他还没完成筹款目标 Well, he's still shy of his goal.
如果他达不成目标 所有的捐赠都不必兑现 If he doesn't get there, none of the pledges get collected.
我知道说这种话很过分 I feel horrible for what I'm about to say,
但我真的很希望他失败 but I really hope he fails.
这是你说的第一句很酷的话 That is the first cool thing you've ever said.
你知道吗 钱可能不会是问题 You know what? This may not be an issue.
理查德和埃利希正前往他们的最后一站 Richard and Erlich are heading into their last stop.
我相信埃利希能拿出外交手段搞定这事 I trust Erlich can be diplomatic and pull it off.
几天前 我来到这里 A few days ago, I came in here,
做了一些我不该做的行为 and I did some things and said some things that I should not have.
我们还想开诚布公地说 Also we would like to be open about the fact that
'魔笛手'现在深陷一起复杂的法律诉讼之中 Pied Piper is involved in a complicated legal matter
这可能会影响我们的估值 that could affect our potential value.
我们要说的是 我们愿意 And that being said, we are open
根据这些重新修改我们的注资条款 to renegotiating the funding terms to reflect that.
但最重要的是 我想感谢你 But most of all, I want to thank you.
感谢你 Thank you
允许我今天走进这里 for allowing me to come in here today
放低姿态向你道歉 and be vulnerable and to apologize.
巴赫曼先生 Mr. Bachman,
我今天叫你们过来 I didn't have you come all the way back here today
可不是为了让你向我道歉 just to apologize to me.
请叫我埃利希 所以 不是为了道歉 Uh, please, it's Erlich. And... you didn't?
当然不是 我让你们回来 Of course not. I--I asked you back
是因为三天前我就坐在这里 because three days ago I sat right here,
看着你把蛋蛋放在这张珍贵的 and I watched you put your testes on this reclaimed
巴西杨槐木桌子上 Brazilian koa wood table,
而现在你要坐在那里 and now you're going to sit there
看着我对你做一遍同样的鸟事 and you're going to watch me do the same goddamn thing to you.
-什么 什么 -轮到我了 -What? What? -My turn.
-不 这是你的桌子 -对 是我的桌子 -No--but it's your table! -Yes, it is my table.
-我去 -神啊 -Oh, man. -Good God!
请不要这么做 Please don't do that.
我认为你应该取消你的众筹项目 I think you should cancel your Kickstarter campaign.
-什么 -听着 我喜欢你的想法 -Whoa, what? -Listen, I love your idea.
-你知道我喜欢'哥们好'对吧 -哥们儿好 -You know I do, right, Bro? -Yeah. Bro?
哥们儿好 能把哥们儿这个词 Bro? Like, it lets you send the word "Bro"
发给所有用这个软件的人 to anyone else that has the app.
我知道 你已经跟我解释过无数遍了 I know what it is. You've explained it to me so many times.
我喜欢它 可是你要知道 不是我说的 I love it, but you know, I'm not saying--
是其他人说了很不好听的话 other people are, like, saying horrible stuff.
我支持你 而那些人说什么 You know, I'm supporting you, and they're saying, like,
他拿不到投资 所以只能去众筹平台 "Oh, he couldn't get funding, so he had to go to Kickstarter
像募捐一样找陌生人要钱 like some charity case collecting money from strangers,
就跟街边坐在地上吃垃圾的乞丐一样 like a street beggar who sits on the ground, eats trash."
真的吗 Really?
对 Yeah.
我告诉你个秘密 Look, just between us,
我本来就想要取消筹款了 I was thinking about canceling, anyways,
因为我们离目标实在太远 because we're way, way under our goal.
真的吗 真的吗 Really? Really?
低得有点丢人 Like, embarrassingly low.
你知道吗 You know what?
-这真是很惨 -确实很惨 -That sucks. -It does really suck.
但我觉得就该这么做 But I think it's the right thing to do.
你说得对 Well, you're right, we're...
因为你不想听别人的坏话 'Cause you don't want bad word of mouth
抹杀这么好的主意 to kill such a great idea.
对啊 就像你的软件那样 Yeah, like with what happened to your app. Yeah.
你什么意思 我的软件怎么了 What do you mean, what happened to my app?
所有人都在说它很差 Everybody started talking about how bad it was
所以最终你放弃了 and you ended up giving up.
我没放弃 我辞职去"魔笛手"了 I didn't give up. I left to go work on Pied Piper.
你的意思是 如果没有"魔笛手" So you're saying, then, that if Pied Piper didn't happen,
你还是会继续搞你的软件吗 you would still be working on your app?
即使那些人全都对它嗤之以鼻 Even though all those people just shit, like, all over--
几乎所有人 like all of them.
你说的是谁 谁看不起它
我们的表兄弟 塔布 法鲁克 埃姆兰还有那些人
还有我搞上的那个女孩
那帮人有过什么成就吗 没有
我搞上的那女孩参加过奥运会
人们都是傻逼 站在一旁对认真做事的人冷嘲热讽
你真这么想吗
没错 就是这样 去他们妈的
知道吗 你说的没错 You know what? You're right, you're right.
所以你很酷 That's what makes you so cool,
你有骨气说出这种话 that you have the fucking backbone to say that.
去他们妈的 Fuck those people. Yeah,
让他们滚一边去 Fuck 'em all.
-去他们的 -去他们的 -Fuck those people. -Fuck them.
我不会取消众筹竞选的 去他们的 I'm not going to cancel my kickstarter campaign. Fuck 'em.
等等 先等一下 Wait, hold on one second.
知道吗 你说的没错 去他们的 Yeah, no, you know what? You're right. Fuck them.
我不会取消 我要办一场 I'm not going to cancel it, and I'm going to throw
盛大的众筹聚会 a huge kickstarter party.
把我认识的人都请来 I'm gonna invite everyone that I know,
让哥们儿火起来 and we're going to put Bro over the top.
各位 他真是最酷的表兄 Everybody, this guy is the coolest cousin!
多谢你的五千块 Thank you for the $5,000, eh?
至少我还知道剃了毛 At least I have the common decency to shave mine.
在你当众亮出来之前吗 Before you pull them out in public?
所以你是在抱怨那人不够得体 So you're complaining about the guy's sense of decorum?
没错 这是个社会 Absolutely. We live in a society.
难以置信我们被搞得这么惨 I can't believe we are this fucked.
各位 刚刚发生了一件有趣的事 Guys, something interesting just happened.
我出于好奇下载了瓦基德的哥们儿软件 So I downloaded Wajeed's bro app out of curiosity
发现很有意思 And found it very sticky.
我之前从没觉得自己是谁的哥们儿 I've never felt like I was anyone's bro before.
唯一一群叫过我哥们儿的人是要打我的小混混 The only people who have used that term with me were assailants,
但我开始哥们儿别人 成为别人的哥们儿了 but, um, I started bro'ing people and getting bro'ed back.
真是我的噩梦 This is my nightmare.
突然之间 我有了各种各样的哥们 And all of a sudden, I'm bros with all kinds of people,
包括一个布兰斯科姆投资公司的人 including a guy from 'Branscomb Ventures.'
布兰斯科姆 那可是家大公司 Branscomb? That's a solid shop.
没错 我们哥们儿来哥们儿去 Yes. So we bro'ed about this and that,
然后他听说我在"魔笛手"工作 and then when he heard I worked at Pied Piper,
变得很兴奋 赞了三次我发的"哥们儿" he got excited, he triple-liked my "Bro,"
还想见我们 and asked about meeting us.
他知道诉讼的事吗 Okay, but does he know about the lawsuit?
我告诉他了 你们也知道他们怎么说 Yeah, I told him. I mean, you know what they say,
-"哥们无秘密" -没人那么说 -"Bros disclose." -No one says that.
等等 布兰斯科姆不是已经有压缩项目了吗 Wait, doesn't Branscomb already have its own compression play?
是啊 但显然那项目不怎么样 Yeah, but not a good one, apparently.
他们想跟我们所有人见面 包括工程师 I mean, they want to sit down with all of us, engineers included.
只有第二或第三次见面时才会这么做 That only happens in a second or third meeting.
技术背景调查 这是好事 Technical due diligence. That's good.
好吧 贾里德 你怎么回复的 Okay, Jared, what--what did you tell him?
我想等一会再回复他 Um, I was waiting a bit to "Bro" him back,
好让我显得不那么迫切 so that I don't seem over-eager.
哥们儿会去 快哥们儿回去 Bro him back! Bro him back.
哥们儿他 Bro him.
我们还没完 各位 We're not dead yet, guys.
去睡觉吧 我的哥们儿们 Well, get some sleep, my bros.
我会安排会面 I'll set the meeting, and, um,
然后再在你们之后给自己找个女人玩 then I'll go find some hoes to prioritize behind you.
你是想说"重友轻色"吗 Are you trying to say "Bros before hoes"?
虽然性别歧视 但重点是友情 It's sexist, but it's about friendship.
发散法是基于一种全新的概率模型 Middle-out is based on a completely new probabilistic model.
布兰斯科姆投资公司
即使是在域优化的算法中 It finds long-range structure that's hidden
它也能找出隐藏的远程结构 even to domain-optimized algorithms.
抱歉 是不是有点太深奥了 I'm sorry, is--is this too in the weeds?
完全没有 讲的越深越好 Not at all. Take us into the weeds.
不如你们听听我们的营销战略吧 Wouldn't you rather hear our go-to-market strategy?
你之前提到过 You mentioned something earlier about
以另一种压缩算法为基础 从中间设计堆栈 stacking middle-out on top of another compression algorithm.
那该怎么做 How does that even work?
你没法对一个已经 I mean, you can't compress
压缩到最小熵的东西再进行压缩 something that's already compressed to entropy.
对吧 Right?
这种展示会上 Uh, I don't really get too
还真没几个人会向我提问 many of those questions in meetings like these.
不过 如果我现场展示的话可能更容易理解 But, uh, it's actually easier if I--if I show you.
-行吗 -没问题 -May I? -Absolutely.
行 好的 那就来吧 Okay, great. Here--here I go.
从中间堆栈其实是可行的 Stacking middle-out is actually very real.
-咱们... -你要尿尿吗 贾里德 -Let's take---Do you have to pee, Jared?
-因为 我想尿尿 -所以当我们简化... -Because I have to pee. -So, when you unpack...
我很想去尿尿 I would love to pee.
到符号层面时 down to the symbolic level.
这样 当我们从中间入栈时 There. When you stack middle-out...
-他们这是在窃取咱们的点子吧 -绝对是 -They're brain-raping us, right? -They definitely are.
该死 你在这等着 Shit. All right, wait here.
你要干什么什么 What are you doing?
我不是说了我不想尿尿吗 怎么了 I told you I didn't have to go pee. What is happening?
那些家伙绝对不会投资我们 咱们得马上走 Those guys are never going to fund us. We need to leave now.
你在说什么 现在形势一片大好 What are you talking about? This is going great.
那些风投人绝对 I mean, VCs are never
不会对中间堆栈的原理感兴趣 interested in how middle-out actually works.
他们当然感兴趣 因为他们想窃取这个想法 Of course they're interested, because they want to steal it.
这是典型的窃取 This is a classic brain-rape.
-什么 -我们在互利经常这么干 -What? -We did it at Hooli all the time.
我们会安排和其他公司开研讨会 We'd schedule meetings with companies,
让他们来解释自己的技术 so they'd explain their technology,
然后我们把他们的点子用在我们的产品上 then we'd use their ideas in our products.
-就像Yelp那样 -没错 -Like what happened to Yelp. -Yes.
这就好像有人和你说想跟你去观鸟 It's like when somebody says they want to go birding with you,
但其实只想把你一个人带到树林里 but really they just want to get you alone in the woods,
这样他们就能把你的望远镜抢走 so they can take your binoculars.
这些人不是在做什么技术背景调查 Look, those guys aren't doing technical due diligence.
他们甚至不是顾问 他们是压缩算法公司的 They're not even consultants. They're a compression company.
上帝啊 其中一个还戴着牙套呢 One of them has braces, for fuck's sake.
-牙套啊 -妈的 -Braces! -Shit.
迪尼希和吉尔弗约尔还在里面 Dinesh and Gilfoyle are still in there.
中间堆栈不会受到 Middle-out doesn't restrict itself to
H.264的二维网格或者是 H.264's two-dimensional grid
时限模式的限制 or time-bound patterns at all.
太棒了 太厉害了 This is great. Great.
他们一般不让我们 You know, they usually don't
展示这种东西 我知道为什么 bring us to these things, and I think I know why.
因为全场都会为我们倾倒 It's 'cause we steal the show.
你们真是帮了大忙 You guys are really helpful.
散场了 会议结束 咱们走 All right, shut it down. Meeting over. We're out of here.
不准再拍照了 混蛋 No more pictures, assholes.
-我可以给你发... -这个为什么不动 -I could email you... -Why is this not coming off?
不 你谁都不准发 No, you're not emailing anybody.
该死 贾里德 Damn it, Jared.
我还把你当兄弟 之前还把你当兄弟 We were bros. We were bros.
公牛台球酒吧
我只想谢谢大家 Yo, yo, yo, just want to thank everyone
来参加这场为哥们举办的众筹派对 for coming out to this Kickstarter party for bro,
哥们儿通
单比特聊天软件
投资者 424 已筹得 45115 目标 50000 还剩1小时
这个应用让你只言片语即可 The app that proves that you can change the world
改变世界 in just one word!
其实 只能传个片语 Actually, it's just half a word.
我知道 太有效了 I know. It's so efficient.
如你们所见 我们离目标只差5000元了 As you can see, we're just $5,000 away from our goal.
但咱们还剩整整一小时 But we got a whole hour left, people.
还不快点发挥哥们之爱的威力 So let's get those "Bronations" Going.
捐赠可真是件有趣的事 Donations are funny, right?
人们为什么宁愿把钱给哥们儿通 I mean, why would anybody donate to something like Bro
而不捐给庇护所或者希望工程呢 and not a homeless shelter or schools?
还有癌症 还没有治愈方法呢 Cancer? That's still out there.
谁都有可能得 Any of us could have it.
只是给你们点念想 Food for thought...
很多人也缺这个 which a lot of people also don't have.
享受派对吧 伙计们 Have a great party, guys.
你们想捐就捐 You could donate if you want,
但他这软件在地球另一边根本卖不出去 but he's throwing away half the world's market.
你知道普通话里"哥们儿"是什么意思吗 You know what "Bro" means in mandarin?
是指"菊花" It means "Asshole."
你知道葡萄牙语里"哥们儿"指什么吗 You know what "Bro" means in Portuguese?
"强奸犯" "Rapist."
按照拉脱维亚语 翻译过来大意是 In Latvian, it roughly translates to
"斩首弥赛亚的人" "One who beheads the Messiah."
芬兰语里 "哥们儿"指"婴儿勃起" In Finnish, "Bro" means "A baby's erection."
乌尔都语里 "哥们儿"是 In Urdu, "Bro" is actually short for...
"男人用的假老二"的简称 which means "A dildo for a man."
男用假老二 A man's dildo.
指"大便晦暗" "Fecal eclipse."
翻译不出精髓 It loses something in translation.
英语里没有相应的单词 但他们语言里有 We don't have a word for it. They do.
就是"哥们儿" It's "Bro."
你知道纳瓦荷语里"哥们儿"是什么意思吗 You know what "Bro" means in Navajo?
一个天天傻乐的呆子 A really joyful person with mental disabilities.
好了 还有不到一分钟 伙计们 All right, less than a minute to go, people.
只差两千美元 And we're just two grand away.
来吧 伙计们 敞开你们的钱包 Come on, you can do it, come on.
我就是这个意思 That's that I'm talking about!
"吉尔弗约尔_路西弗"捐出500美元 $500 from "Gilfoyle-underscore-luci4."
你在哪 哥们儿 Where you at, bro?
不论是哪位 都是我的好哥们儿 Wherever you're at, you're my bro.
看来我来得正是时候 哥们儿 Looks like I got here just in time, bro.
你他妈为什么那么做 What the fuck did you do that for?
你知道现在是什么状况吗 Do you know how this works?
如果你让他凑够资金 我们两个就都欠他钱 If you put him over the edge, we both owe him money?
但你欠的比我多 But you have to pay a lot more.
还剩30秒 30 seconds left!
我用很小的代价就能增加你的痛苦 I'm effectively leveraging your misery.
有人吗 任何人 Somebody! Anybody!
可以将我比作整你界的沃伦·巴菲特 I'm like the Warren Buffett of fucking with you.
-还差1100美元 来吧 伙计们 -你个混蛋 -$1100! Come on, bros. -You're a dick.
还差1100美元 我应该能凑得出来 Only $1100 left. I might be good for that.
-吉尔弗约尔 拜托 -这么着吧 -Gilfoyle, please. -I'll tell you what.
你付我五百美元 我就不加钱 You pay me $500, and I won't pledge anymore.
你出500刀 就能少付5000刀 For 500 bucks, you save $5,000.
我一个子都不会给你 I'm not giving you a dime.
-九 八 七 -好吧 我要加钱 -Nine, eight, seven... -Okay, I'm pledging.
不行 别动 给我500 No. Stop. 500. It costs 500.
-让我 -住手 给我500 -Let me---Stop it. 500.
-好 我给 -三 二 -Okay. -Three, two...
无所谓的 反正他也凑不够 It doesn't matter. It's not like he's going to make his--
筹得资金
今天本项目成功筹得资金
什么鬼 What the fuck?
太好了 我们成功了 是谁出的钱 Yes, yes, yes! We did it! Who was it?
事情本不该这样发展的 That's not how that was supposed to go.
美嘉 美嘉 我爱你 我的好美嘉 Mika! Mika, I love you, you Mika!
那位个子挺高的亚洲女是谁 Who is that... tall Asian woman?
正跟瓦基德有一腿的女人 Some woman that Wajeed is fucking.
她参加过奥运会 She was in the Olympics.
看来他真是牛逼表哥 He really is the cool cousin.
算上我们从'科技博客'创业展会赢来的五万 Even with the 50 grand we got at TechCrunch,
我们也就只能撑几周 we've only got a few weeks
然后就一败涂地了 left of runway before we crash and burn.
理查德 如果这能让你好受点 Richard, if it makes you feel any better,
我让布兰斯科姆那家伙也尝了下被耍的滋味 I put that Branscomb guy in his place.
我把他从"哥们好"里拉黑了 I dropped him from Bro,
但拉黑之前发了个愤怒的"哥们" but not before I sent one final angry "Bro."
你什么意思 你把他们惹火了 What do you mean? You can make them angry?
你能通过发"哥们儿"表达出愤怒吗 You can make "Bros" angry?
是他先把我惹毛了 Well, he made this bro angry.
但严格来说 我发的那个"哥们儿" But technically, no, the "Bro" I sent was identical
跟我之前发的很多"哥们儿"都一样 to the previous "Bros" I sent,
但他应该能从当时的情形感受到我的愤怒 but I think he'll infer the anger from context.
是罗恩打来的 我得接下 This is Ron on the phone. I gotta take it.
好的 Yeah, okay.
-罗恩 -理奇 -Hello, ron. -Hey, Richie.
我马上得去参加身心疗程了 I gotta bounce on over to my mind-body thing,
但之前想先告诉你这个好消息 but I just wanted to give you the good news.
我给你找到了一个顶尖的诉讼律师 I got you a top-shelf litigator.
对 这个我们得谈谈 Yeah, uh, we should probably discuss that.
你怕他们要价太高吗 别怕 You're gonna sweat me about the cost, right? Don't.
我替你狠狠砍了价 他们的价钱便宜了不少 I hammered them on their fee. They're going to bring it way down.
好吧 那要多少 Okay, so how much?
整个诉讼程序就收你 This whole thing is going to cost you
200万 最多250万 2, 2.5 million tops.
-什么 -我知道 就像白送似的 -What? -I know, right. It's like it's free.
告诉过你的 我价有所值 I told you, I pay for myself.
我需要你 So I'm going to need you
明天早上十点去他们办公室 to head on down to their offices tomorrow at 10:00 am.
甩给他们八万美元定金 You slap an 80k retainer on them,
就万事俱备了 and we are good to go.
该死 Oh, shit.
我得接个电话 所以 I--okay, I actually have another call, so...
我就不占用你的嘴了 I'll get out of your pubes.
我会把你的简介发给你明天要见的那帮人 I'm emailing you intros to the guys you're meeting tomorrow.
回聊 Later.
喂 Hello?
你好 Oh, uh, hello.
对 Yes, uh-huh.
当然 就我一个人吗 Sure, just me?
好 几点 Okay, what time?
你好 Hello.
理查德 多谢你赴约 Richard. Thanks for coming.
我们这是在干什么 理查德 What are we doing, Richard?
又是诉讼又是请律师的 Lawsuits and lawyers?
你又被城里所有的风投基金扫地出门了 You out there getting rejected by every VC in town?
你我都不想看到这个局面 Neither of us want this,
但也许我们能一起找到解决方案 but maybe together we can find a way out.
是啊 很简单 撤诉就行 Yeah, easy--drop the lawsuit.
你知道我不可能那么做 You know I can't do that.
'魔笛手'并不是从你那偷的 I didn't steal Pied Piper from you,
你心里清楚 and you know it.
那就看法庭最终怎么判了 Well, that's up to the courts to decide.
在判决之前 你只能停滞不前 And until they do, you're frozen.
同时我最好的程序员会加班加点工作 Meanwhile, my best engineers are working around the clock
开发出一个远超你的发散算法 to get me a middle-out algorithm that surpasses yours.
到了一月我们开发成功后 就推向市场 And in January when we have it and we come to market,
到时你就不是停滞不前了 是彻底玩完 you won't just be frozen, you'll be dead.
你已经出了你的王牌 理查德 你输了 You played your best hand, Richard, and you lost.
这只是生意 所以 It's just business. So...
不如你趁现在还有机会 wouldn't you rather get something
靠着'魔笛手'捞上一笔 out of Pied Piper while you still can?
让我来收购你 Let me acquire you.
什么 没门 你说笑吧 What? No way. Are you kidding me?
我们一开始就该这么做 We should have just done this the first time.
我知道你考虑过 简直再合适不过 I know you thought about it. It's the perfect fit.
你得到我的设施资源 我得到你的压缩速度 You get my infrastructure, I get your speed,
而且我现在就能拿到 而不是再等一两个月 and I get it today rather than in a month or two.
怎么会有损失 What's the downside?
损失就是我辛苦打造的一切 The downside is that everything I'm building
会归你那个庞大无情的企业所有 becomes the property of your giant, soulless corporation.
那你觉得你到底打造了什么 And what exactly do you think you're building?
你在那到处求投资为了雇人 You're out there trying to get funding so you can hire people,
扩大规模 推出产品 然后首次公开募股 scale up, roll out a product, IPO,
并最终成为一家上市的什么 and eventually become a publicly-traded what?
企业 Corporation.
我们的公司不一样 We would be different.
明白了 我猜当'魔笛手' I see. I suppose once
成为一家资产上亿的公司时 Pied Piper is a billion-dollar company,
你会主动对你的竞争者施以援手 you'll seek out your competitors and help them.
得了吧 让我们面对现实 Please. Let's face it.
'互利'不就是 What is Hooli if not the
'魔笛手'所能达到的最高目标吗 best possible future version of Pied Piper?
你以为你打造的公司能有所不同吗 你错了 You think you're building something different? No.
你现在打造的一切 You're building something
跟我已经打造过的一模一样 that's exactly the same as what I've already built,
除了领头人是你不是我 except with you instead of me,
但这已经没有未来了 理查德 but that's not possible now, Richard.
你知道未来在哪里吗 But you know what is?
我们可以一起创造未来 你我携手 We could build something together, you and me.
一个伟大的 这个世界所需要的未来 Something great. Something the world needs now.
听着 我并没必要这么做 Look, I don't have to do this.
我只是想做我应做的 I'm just trying to do the right thing here.
你怎么说 So what do you say?
你想知道我怎么说 You want to know what I say?
我的答案就是 OK. Here's what I say...