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Alexandr Wang 是 Scale AI 的创始人兼CEO,他在24岁时成为全球最年轻的白手起家亿万富翁。1997年出生于洛斯阿拉莫斯(造原子弹的地方)的他,MIT数学和计算机编程专业,中途辍学,于2016年与合作伙伴共同创办了 Scale AI。该公司专注于为人工智能提供数据标注服务,客户包括 OpenAI 和丰田等知名企业。
Wang 的影响力不仅限于科技领域,他还积极参与国家安全事务,认为人工智能是美国在全球竞争中的关键。通过他的领导,Scale AI 已迅速成长为行业的重要参与者,估值已达数十亿美元。
Alexandr Wang书写了一个年少成名的故事,选择创业时,你是否也有“All in”的勇气。 以下他在昨天的YC 校友聚会上分享了自己的经验。
在 YC 校友聚会上,我收到了很多来自新创始人的问题,关于如何建立一家成功的公司,但我意识到这些问题的答案其实都是相同的。那就是:At the YC Alumni Reunion, I got lots of questions from new founders about how to build a successful company, but realized that they all had the same answer. And it’s this:
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做到过头
DO TOO MUCH
作为一名领导者,你在乎的程度决定了公司其他人能在乎的上限。你需要做得更多,关心更多,尝试更多,超出合理的范围。这看起来像是做得过头了,但做到过头才是正确的量。As a leader, you are the upper bound for how much anyone in your company will care. You need to do more, care more, attempt more than would seem reasonable. It will seem like overkill. But too much is the right amount.
无论是在大事还是小事上,这都是真理。
人们所说的过度乐观,其实只是乐观。 人们所说的过度沟通,其实只是沟通。 人们所说的过度交付,其实只是交付。 人们所说的过度管理,其实只是管理。 人们所说的无情的优先级排序,其实只是优先级排序。
This is true in big and small ways.
What people say is overoptimism is just optimism. What people say is overcommunicating is just communicating. What people say is overdelivering is just delivering. What people say is micromanagement is just management. What people say is ruthless prioritization is just prioritization.
真正以这种方式生活可能会显得疯狂,但这没关系。没有乔布斯对细节的“强迫性”关注,就没有苹果。没有埃隆对执行的“狂热”追求,就没有 SpaceX 或特斯拉。我从未见过普通的努力能带来非凡的成果。Actually living this way will seem crazy, and that’s ok. There is no Apple without Jobs’s “obsessive” attention to detail. There is no SpaceX or Tesla without Elon’s “maniacal” drive for execution. I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results.
如果我们没有做到过头,Scale 今天就不会是现在的样子。If we had not done too much, Scale would not be the company it is today.
当 AI 在 2022 年真正开始起飞,“生成式 AI”成为热门话题时,Scale 在六个月内将我们的大部分团队转向为扩展大型语言模型生成数据的工作。When AI really started to take off in 2022 and “generative AI” became a thing, within 6 months Scale shifted the vast majority of our team to working on generating data for scaling LLMs.
大多数公司会经历几轮繁琐的计划周期,直到竞争对手开始威胁到他们时才采取行动。而在我们这里,变化是激烈而突然的——有些人可能会说是令人震惊或极端的。Most companies would go through quarters of bureaucratic planning cycles and only move after a competitor started eating their lunch. In our case, the change was drastic and abrupt — some might say jarring or extreme.
所谓反应过度其实只是正常反应。而事后看来,正是我们对 AI 发展的这种反应,使得 Scale 后来的发展路径成为可能,包括在过去一年中增长了四倍。What people might have reasonably described as overreacting was just reacting. And in hindsight, that reaction to developments in AI was what made Scale’s subsequent path possible, including growing 4X over the last year.
我们迄今为止所取得的成就,代表了每个人都在接受这种做到过头的文化的复合结果。Scale 会做那些传统公司不敢做的事情,因为对他们来说这太可怕或痛苦了,但别人不去做这种程度的努力,这是特性,而不是缺陷。What we’ve accomplished to date represents the compounded results of everybody embracing the culture of overdoing. Scale will do things incumbent companies wouldn’t, because it’s simply too scary or painful, but others not going to the same lengths is a feature not a bug.
创造一些有意义的东西是一件美丽的事情,但的确也是可怕和痛苦的。如果你没有做到过头,那你就是做得太少了。Creating something meaningful is a beautiful, and yes, scary and painful thing. And if you’re not overdoing it, you’re underdoing it.
同为YC校友的Arthur MacWaters (Co-founder@LegionHealth[1]-人工智能构建医疗保健的未来, prev. McKinsey, Princeton)这样评价这次聚会的感受!
@alexandr_wang 在 @ycombinator 校友重聚会上做了我认为最好的演讲
其他人已经做了很好的总结,我更多的是在思考他的品格——
Alex 拥有我最喜欢的几个品质:
坚定无疑( UNEQUIVOCAL. )。一旦决定了,就会全力以赴,百分之百地推进。
他对自己的想法极其清晰,所以无论是 @scale_AI 内部还是外部,都不会对他的方向产生任何混淆。
真诚坦率。
很高兴与你交谈,兄弟!🫡
左二 Wang,左三Arthur MacWaters
这会儿Musk也过来凑热闹。
需要注意的是,其实,对于普通人来说,找到值得做的事情是最难的。多数时候,仍然挣扎在“求生”阶段。
参考资料
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1843351104052146622
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