TED英语演讲:66岁创业成功,如何做到
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TED英语演讲:66岁创业成功,如何做到
Paul Tasner先生尽管年逾古稀,但他是一位敢于挑战传统束缚的人,他在66岁高龄时创业成功,像他这样有经验、有人脉、有实力的人,创业成功率远高于年轻的创业者。他的胆识的气魄能给社会做出的贡献也不亚于年轻人。下面是本人为大家收集关于TED英语演讲:66岁创业成功,如何做到,欢迎借鉴参考。
66岁创业成功,如何做到? 演讲者:Paul Tasner I'd like to take you back about seven years in my life. Friday afternoon, a few days before Christmas 20xx. I was the director of operations at a consumer products company in San Francisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was fired, along with several others. 我想带你们回到我大约7年前的生活。那是20xx年圣诞节前几天一个周五的下午,当时的我是旧金山 一家消费品公司的运营总监。我被叫进一个正在进行的会议。我发现这场会议是我的离职面谈。和其他的几个人一样,我被解雇了。 I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn't completely unexpected. I signed a stack of papers,gathered my personal effects, and left to join my wife who was waiting for me at a nearby restaurant,completely unaware. Fast-forward several hours, we both got really silly drunk. 那时我64岁。这并不完全出乎我的意料。我签了一堆的文件,收拾了一下自己的东西,就去找我的妻子了,她在附近的一个小饭店里等我,但对此毫不知
情。几个小时很快过去了,我们都喝得伶仃大醉。
So, 40 plus years of continuous employment for a variety of companies, large and small, was over. I had a good a network, a good reputation -- I thought I'd be just fine. I was an engineer in manufacturing and packaging. I had a good background. Retirement was, like for so many people, simply not an option for me.So I turned to consulting for the next couple of years without any passion whatsoever. 就这样,40多年在各个公司间颠沛流离的职业生涯结束了。我拥有很好的朋友圈,人缘也不错我以为这没什么大不了的。我曾经是个工作于制造业和包装业的工程师。我有很好的从业背景,跟很多人一样,退休对我来说,也算不上是一种选择。于是在接下来的几年中我一直做着咨询工作,却没有什么激情。 And then an idea began to take root, born from my concern for our environment. I wanted to build my own business, designing and manufacturing biodegradable packaging from waste -- paper, agricultural, even textile waste -- replacing the toxic, disposable plastic packaging to which we've all become addicted. 然而后来因为我对环境的关心,我产生了一个新的想法。我想要建立自己的公司,从废物中设计并生产 能进行生物降解的包装,用以废纸、作物,甚至是纺织废料为原料所制造的包装,取代那些人类越来越依赖的,有毒的一次性塑料包装。
This is called clean technology, and it felt really meaningful to me. A venture that could help to reduce the billions of pounds of single-use
plastic packaging dumped each year and polluting our land, our rivers and our oceans, and left for future generations to resolve -- our grandchildren, my grandchildren. 这被称作清洁技术。它对我而言意义非凡。这家公司每年能帮助减少数十亿磅污染我们的土地、河流和海洋的一次性塑料包装,它们也会给我们的子孙后代造成困扰—— 我们的孙辈,我的孙辈。
And so now at the age of 66, with 40 years of experience, I became an entrepreneur for the very first time.Thank you. But there's more. 现在我66岁,有着40年的工作经验,第一次成为了一名企业家。谢谢。但不仅如此。
Lots of issues to deal with: manufacturing, outsourcing, job creation, patents, partnerships, funding -- these are all typical issues for a start-up, but hardly typical for me. And a word about funding. I live and work in San Francisco. And if you're looking for funding, you are typically going to compete with some very young peoplefrom the high-tech industry, and it can be very discouraging and intimidating. I have shoes older than most of these people. 很多事情有待解决: 生产,外包,招聘,专利,合伙人,资金—— 这些都是创业者面临的典型问题,但对我而言并非如此。顺带说下资金。我在旧金山