Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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

我会尽量让这堂课尽可能有趣。

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

如果你喜欢太空，那你一定会喜欢这场演讲。

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

那么，呃，简单介绍一下我的背景——我会稍微讲讲Zip 2这家公司。

And uh and PayPal.

还有PayPal。

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

然后，呃，主要讲讲太空以及我们目前在太空领域所做的工作。

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

嗯，我最初是从加州出来，去斯坦福大学攻读能源物理学的。

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

实际上，我在1995年决定暂停学业，转而创办了Zip 2。

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

关于Zip 2，我会稍微讲讲当时具体的思考过程和发生的情况。

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

在1995年，互联网是否会成为一项巨大的商业事业，完全还看不清。

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.

事实上，我接触过的绝大多数风险投资家甚至都没听说过互联网——这在桑迪尔路（硅谷著名的风投聚集地）听起来很荒谬。