Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

I'll try to make this as interesting as possible.

我會盡量讓這堂課儘可能有趣。

If you like space, you'll like this talk.

如果你喜歡太空，那你一定會喜歡這場演講。

So, uh, my background—uh, in brief—I'll talk a little bit about Zip 2.

那麼，呃，簡單介紹一下我的背景——我會稍微講講Zip 2這家公司。

And uh and PayPal.

還有PayPal。

Uh, and then uh mostly about space and what we're doing in space.

然後，呃，主要講講太空以及我們目前在太空領域所做的工作。

Um, so I originally came out of California to do energy physics at Stanford.

嗯，我最初是從加州出來，去斯坦福大學攻讀能源物理學的。

Actually, um, and ended up putting this on hold in '95 to start Zip 2.

實際上，我在1995年決定暫停學業，轉而創辦了Zip 2。

Um, and Zip 2—I'll tell you a little bit about the thought process of exactly what happened there.

關於Zip 2，我會稍微講講當時具體的思考過程和發生的情況。

Um, in '95, it wasn't at all clear that the internet was going to be a big commercial thing.

在1995年，網際網路是否會成為一項巨大的商業事業，完全還看不清。

In fact, most of the venture capitalists that I talked to hadn't even heard of the internet—which sounds bizarre—on Sand Hill Road.

事實上，我接觸過的絕大多數風險投資家甚至都沒聽說過網際網路——這在桑迪爾路（矽谷著名的風投聚集地）聽起來很荒謬。