双语新闻：Zuora创始人兼CEO 成功三分靠自身七分靠环境

2014-07-08 15:39:25来源：可可英语

　　公司的发展有不同的阶段。现在我们有大约350 人。我要说，收入第一次达到1000万美元以及员工人数第一次达到150人左右是公司的摸索阶段。产品的市场在哪里?你的价值主张是什么?怎样定价?怎么销售产品?如何才能让顾客使用它?我们的下一个重大里程碑是收入达到1亿美元。在这样的体量和规模之下，公司才会真正进入和人有关的阶段。怎样让别人进入你的公司?那些认为自己能在你的公司里获得最充分成长和发展的高端人才在哪里?你如何让他们同心协力?怎样让他们更独立地工作?

　　We have this phrase in the company: We have one CEO, but we have 350 “ZEOs.” We like putting “z” in front of everything. But how do you have 350 ZEOs who feel empowered, and point them all in the same direction? That’s one of the big challenges of our scale. We hope we can continue on a track to keep doubling every 12 to 18 months. We want to be 1,000 people in the near future. But how do we put in a structure to have us all work together so that we don’t cave in on ourselves? That’s the biggest challenge we have right now.

　　我们的公司处在这样一个阶段：我们有一名CEO，但有350名ZEO。我们喜欢在所有的东西前面都加一个“z”。但你怎么才能让这350名ZEO都觉得充满动力，同时引导他们朝着同一个方向迈进呢?这是在当前规模下我们面临的最大挑战之一。我们希望自己能保持每12-18个月规模翻番的速度。我们想在短期内拥有1000名员工。但我们要建立怎样的机制才能让所有人都携手努力，以免功亏一篑呢?这就是目前我们面临的最大挑战。

　　7. If you could have done anything differently in your career, what would it have been?

　　7. 如果你的职业生涯中有件事可以重头来过，它会是什么?

　　I do a lot of international travel now, and I always thought it would be good to work overseas for a couple of years. I had a couple of opportunities to do so in my career, and for various reasons, usually personal ones, I didn’t choose to take it. But I think in today’s world, where the world is much smaller, technology is spreading much faster, and you have to have an international perspective. I just did this trip through Asia, and their use of mobile phones and mobile apps actually exceeds what we have here, even in our Silicon Valley bubble. So I would encourage people today to move around internationally. Try to work in different places because I think you need perspective going forward as opposed to have a U.S.-centric view of the world.

　　现在我总是往国外跑，而且我总觉得在国外工作一、两年挺好。在我的职业生涯中有几次出国工作的机会，但我都放弃了。原因有很多，通常都和个人有关。但我觉得，现在的世界已经小了很多，科技传播的速度也快了很多，一个人必须具有国际化的眼界。我刚刚从亚洲出差回来。在那里，人们对手机和移动应用的使用实际上已经超过了美国，甚至超过了硅谷泡沫时期的美国。因此，我想鼓励现在的人们到国外去。试着在不同的地方工作，因为我觉得今后人们看世界的角度不应该再以美国为中心。

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