Box聯合創始人:機會常常有,只愛有心人
????《財富》(Fortune)雜志舉辦的科技頭腦風暴大會(7月22日至24日于美國科羅拉多州阿斯彭召開)定期召集科技與創新領域最優秀和最聰明的思想家相聚一堂。每周,《財富》雜志都會重點推介一位大會嘉賓,分享他/她對于商業、科技和創業的真知灼見。本周,我們的嘉賓是Box聯合創始人兼CEO阿隆?列維。我們從教育、最崇拜的公司以及對年輕企業家的行業建議等方面提出了10個問題。他的回答如下。 ????你最近閱讀了哪些書? ????我最近讀了三本書:《杰克?韋爾奇自傳》(Jack: Straight from the Gut,史詩般的傳記)、《柔道策略》(Judo Strategy,如何擊敗競爭對手)、《終極企業家》(The Ultimate Entrepreneur ,關于擊敗競爭對手的傳奇故事)。 ????當前的就業市場非常嚴峻,對那些正在找工作的年輕人,你想說些什么? ????現在是創業的最佳時期,有大把的機會在等著你們。各行各業都面臨著來自新技術和新服務的巨大沖擊,后者以更直接、更簡單的方式為客戶帶來更高的價值。如果創業不行,來我們公司應聘吧,我們在招人。 ????如果不做現在的工作,你會做什么? ????我也許會從事3D打印,或許還會嘗試利用科技改變破爛不堪的醫療系統,最后,我可能會暫時呆在爸媽的地下室里。 ????你錯過的最佳機會是什么? ????科技界最棒的一點是,每隔幾年就一定會出現新的機遇。如果你發現了什么大的機遇,機會之門最多在幾年之后就會關閉;而如果你不幸錯過了什么好機會,永遠還有希望趕上下一波。我們要做的就是不斷地自我調整,以免錯過任何大好機會。 ????你從學校學到的最重要的東西是什么? ????學校太后知后覺了。我們大部分時間都在學習過去發生了什么,而很少花時間學習如何開創未來。結果導致學生們只會死記硬背,嚴重缺乏創新和變革世界的能力。我們的經濟每過10年就會大變樣,我們必須給學生更好的教育和訓練,讓他們能適應變化。 |
????Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortune will turn the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. This week, we asked Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie to answer 10 questions about his own education, the entrepreneurs he admires most, and industry advice for young entrepreneurs. His responses follow. ????What was the last book you read? ????My three most recent books are: Jack: Straight from the Gut (epic stories), Judo Strategy (how to kill the competition), The Ultimate Entrepreneur (epic stories on killing the competition). ????What would you say to a group of young people looking to enter the tough job market? ????Now is as good a time as any to start a company, and there's an infinite amount of opportunity in the world today. Every product category is facing significant disruption by?new technologies and services that bring better value to customers through more direct and simplified approaches. And if that doesn't work out, we're hiring. ????What would you do if you weren't working at your current job? ????Doing something with 3-D printing, attempting to change our broken health care system using technology, or living in my parents' basement. ????What was your biggest missed opportunity? ????The great thing about the technology market is new opportunities show up every couple of years, like clockwork. When you hit on something big, it only lasts for a couple of years max; and if you miss something big, you can always catch the next wave. Your job is to always be recorrecting so no opportunity is ever fully missed. ????What was the most important thing you learned in school? ????How backwards school is. We spend most of our time learning about what happened in the past, but so little time is spent teaching students how to build the future. This leads to people being great at rote memorization, but ill-prepared for creating progress and change in the world. We need to do a way better job at educating and training students for how drastically different our economy will look in just 10 years. |