????沃爾特?德奈弗是一位社交游戲創業者，他的公司Scopely與獨立游戲工作室合作開發、發行和銷售多人游戲。在Scopely之前，沃爾塔還創辦過O Negative Media公司，并擔任CEO，在此期間開發了社交網絡游戲應用。在那之前， 他與人合作創辦的Ignition Interactive公司，是首批在Facebook平臺上開發第三方應用的開發者之一。

????2012年，德奈弗被世界經濟論壇（World Economic Forum）評為 “全球青年領袖”（Young Global Shapers），2013年，他又榮獲安永年度企業家獎（Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year）。他擁有布朗大學（Brown University）英語文學文科學士學位。出席完《財富》雜志（Fortune）舉辦的“科技頭腦風暴大會”（Brainstorm Tech）之后，他與我們分享了自己的成就，他對科技的態度，以及學校教給他的那些有助于創業的技能。

????1. 你最崇拜的商界或科技界人物是哪位？為什么？

????我的父親小沃爾特?德奈弗。不論是在法律行業，還是在當下的金融行業，他的事業都非常成功。他讓我明白，只要始終以正確的方式去做每一件事情，最終必將獲得出人意料的回報——走捷徑幾乎不可能讓你實現最終的目標。

????2. 你還崇拜其他哪些公司？為什么？

????我認為維爾福軟件公司（Valve）和《Vice》雜志都很酷——它們都有自己的個性，這種個性對他們的員工意義重大。

????3. 最讓你興奮的科技行業是什么？

????智能手機時代的來臨令我非常興奮。數十億人人手一部聯網設備肯定會從根本上帶來許多新的商機。不過，這些商機目前只是初露端倪，而且在美國很容易被人們當成理所當然的事情。

????4. 企業家必須讀商學院嗎？

????我從來沒有接受過正規的商學院教育，所以坦白地說，我并不知道讀商學院是否有用，但這絕對不是一個必要條件。從我的角度來看，大多數創業者之所以創業，要么是天性使然，想象不出還能做其他什么事情，要么是他們對某個特定市場有著獨特的見解，又或者他們對解決某個問題充滿了瘋狂的激情。商學院或許更適合高管，而不是創業者。

????5. 你獲得過的最好建議是什么？

????大多數人都會高估自己短期內的成績，而低估長期的成就。

????Walter Driver is a longtime social gaming entrepreneur whose company, Scopely, works with independent gaming studios to co-develop, distribute, market, and monetize multiplayer games. Prior to Scopely, Walter founded and served as CEO of O Negative Media, where he developed social network gaming applications. Before that, he co-founded Ignition Interactive, one of the first developers of third party applications on the Facebook platform.

????In 2012, Driver was recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Shapers, and in 2013 he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Brown University. After he attended Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, we picked his brain about his accomplishments, technology, and the surprising thing he learned in school that has helped him as an entrepreneur.

????1. What business or technology person do you admire most? Why?

????My father, Walter Driver Jr. He's had a very successful career in law and now finance and showed me that doing everything the right way all the time pays unforeseeable dividends over time -- shortcuts rarely take you where you want to end up.

????2. What other companies do you admire? Why?

????Valve and Vice are two companies I think are very cool -- they have an identity that means something to people who work there.

????3. What technology sector excites you most?

????I'm pretty thrilled to be coming of age at the advent of the smartphone era. Having a connected device in the hands of billions of people is going to create fundamentally new opportunities that are just beginning to take shape yet and are easily taken for granted in the U.S.

????4. Is business school necessary for entrepreneurs?

????I've never had any formal business education, so I honestly don't know how useful it is, but it's definitely not a requirement. From my perspective, most people who start companies do it because they either a) are wired that way and can't imagine doing anything else, b) they have a unique insight into a particular market, or c) there's a problem they are insanely passionate about solving. Business school seems like a more useful training ground for being an executive than an entrepreneur.

????5. What is the best advice you ever received?

????Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in the short-term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long-term.