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10
大最佳创业团队
10
best founding teams
Sun Microsystems
Sun
微系统
Founders: Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy,
Andy Bechtolsheim, and Bill Joy
创始人：维诺德
?科斯拉，斯科特?麦克尼利，安迪?贝托谢姆和比尔?乔伊
Named after the Stanford University
Network, Sun Microsystems became the
goliath of computer workstations in the
1990s, so much so it once used the
slogan,
shuttering of many
businesses that relied on Sun's technologies; the
company
ultimately was acquired by
Oracle for nearly $$7.3 billion. Its co-founders,
all
household names in tech, have had
rich second acts. Kholsa became a general
partner at Kleiner Perkins before
starting his own venture firm, Khosla
Ventures. Joy and Bechtolsheim are
investors (Bechtolsheim was one of the
earliest backers of Google), and
McNealy co-founded social-media polling
company Wayin.
以斯坦福大学网络
( Stanford
University Network)
命名的
Sun
微系统在
20
世
纪<
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90
年代成为计算机工作站领域的巨无霸。这家公司如日中天之际
曾经使用过
这样的口号：
“我们是互联网的连接者。”但随着互
联网热潮的退却，许多依靠
Sun
微系统技术的企业纷纷关门大
吉。这家公司最终被甲骨文
(Oracle)
以接近
73
亿美元的价格收购。作为高科技领域如雷贯耳的大人物，
Sun
微系统的几位
联合创始人都绽放出精彩纷呈的
第二春。科斯拉成为顶级风投公司凯鹏华盈
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(Kleiner Per
kins)
的普通合伙人，随后又创办了他自己的科斯拉风投公司
(Khosla Ventures)
。乔伊和贝托谢姆也成为知名投资者【贝托谢姆
是谷歌公司
(Google)
最早的支持者之一】，麦克尼利则
与他人合伙创办了社交媒体调查公
司
Wayin
。
Netscape
网景
Founders: Marc
Andreessen, James H. Clark
创始人：马克?安德森，詹姆斯?克拉克
Credit Andreessen and Clark for shaping
the modern-day web surfing
experience.
In 1994, they released Mosaic Netscape, or
Netscape Navigator,
the first widely
distributed Internet browser. Netscape was
acquired by AOL
in 1999 for $$10
billion. Clark went on to start Healtheon, which
later merged
with WebMD (WBMD), and he
was the star of Michael Lewis's The New New
Thing, a book about Silicon Valley.
Andreessen is co-founder of Andreessen
Horowitz and one of the Valley's most
sought-after advisers.
我们如今享受的上网体验在很大程度
上归功于安德森和克拉克。
1994
年，他们
< br>发布了史上第一款被广泛使用的互联网浏览器：马赛克导航者
(Mosaic <
/p>
Netscape)
或称网景导航者
(N
etscape Navigator)
。
1999
年，网景被美国在线
(AOL)
以
100
亿美元的价格收购。克拉克随后创办了永健公
司
(Healtheon)
，但
这家公
司后来与网络医生
(WebMD)
合并。
克拉克是迈克尔?刘易斯讲述硅谷故事
的经典著作《将世界甩在后面》
(The New New Thing)
大书特书的大明星。安
德森是顶级风投公司安德森霍洛维茨基金
(Andreessen Horo
witz)
的联合创始
人，也是硅谷最抢手的顾问之一。
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General
Motors
通用汽车公司
Founders: William Durant, Charles
Stewart Mott
创始人：威廉?杜兰特，查尔斯?斯图尔特?莫特
One of the largest automakers in the
world started little more than a century
ago with just the Buick brand in its
portfolio. Ironically, Durant, a leading
manufacturer of horse-drawn carriages
then, was dubious of early
automobiles
and their safety but saw a potential market for
improved models
and invested
aggressively. By 1910, General Motors (GM,Fortune
500) had
either acquired or started
Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Chevrolet and eventually
became so successful it led global auto
sales for 70 years until 2008.
这家全球最大的汽
车制造商创办于大约一个世纪前，最初仅有别克
(Buick)
这一
个品牌。
颇具讽刺意味的是，
当时
身为马车制造业领导者的杜兰特对早期的汽车
及其安全性半信半疑，
但在发现改进车型拥有一个巨大的潜在市场之后，
他骤然
加
大了投资力度。到
1910
年，通过开发或自创等方式，通用汽
车已经拥有了奥
兹莫比尔
(Oldsmobile)
、凯迪拉克
(Cadillac)
和雪佛兰
(Chevrolet)
等品牌，并最
终大获
成功——在
2008
年之前的
70
年里，
通用汽车的全球销量一直领先群雄。
Microsoft
微软
Founders:Bill Gates, Paul Allen
创始人：比尔?盖茨，保罗?艾伦
Personal computing arguably wouldn't be
the force it is today without Bill
Gates and Paul Allen, childhood friends
who founded Microsoft (MSFT,
Fortune
500) in 1975 after writing a programming language
for the Altair
8800 microcomputer.
Although Allen would depart eight years later,
alleging
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Gates tried
to dilute his equity, their work together has
yielded important PC
software like
Windows, the dominant desktop operating system,
even to this
day. Allen keeps his hand
in technology though his investing arm, Vulcan
Capital. Gates, who established the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
works with Warren Buffett to encourage
philanthropy, earlier this year said he
would step up his role at Microsoft at
the request of new CEO Satya Nadella.
可
以说，如果没有比尔?盖茨和保罗?艾伦，也就不会有个人电脑的今天。
1975
年，这对儿时的好友为
Altair 8800
微机写了一组编程语言，随后携手创办了微
软公司（
Micr
osoft
）。尽管艾伦在
8
年后以
盖茨试图稀释他的股权为由离开
了微软，
但他们一起创造了一些
意义重大的个人电脑软件，
比如直至今天依然占
据主宰地位的桌
面操作系统
Windows
。不过，艾伦依然在通过他的投资公
司火
神资本
(Vulcan Capital)
继续投身科技领域。
盖茨建立了比尔和梅琳达?盖茨基金
会
(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
，这些年来一直与沃伦?巴菲特一道倡
导慈善事业。但他在今年早些
时候表示，应新任
CEO
萨蒂亚?纳德拉的请求，他
将加强他在微软扮演的角色。
PayPal
贝宝
Founders:Elon
Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, and
Ken Howery
创始人：埃伦?穆斯克，彼得?泰尔，马克斯?列夫琴，卢克?
诺塞克和肯?霍威利
Musk, Thiel,
Levchin, Nosek, and Howery launched the Internet-
based
payment service in 1998, which
rapidly expanded after users made it their
payment method of choice on eBay(EBAY,
Fortune 500). No surprise then
that
eBay acquired the startup for $$1.5 billion, which
proved a wise move, as
PayPal remains
the fastest-growing business inside the company.
Meanwhile,
there's a reason early
PayPal alum earned the name
one,
dreamed up and runs Tesla (TSLA), the disruptive
electronic car
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company,
while Thiel largely became a startup investor,
channeling funds into
businesses like
Facebook.
1998
年，穆斯克、泰尔、列夫琴、诺
塞克和肯?霍威利等人联手创办了这家互联
网支付服务商。在
eBay
用户将其作为默认支付方式之后，贝宝（
eBay
）开始
急剧扩张。意料之中的是，
eBay
随后斥资
15
亿美元收购了这家初创公司。这
笔收购后来被证明是明智之举，
因为贝宝现在仍然是
eBay
公司内部增长最快的
业务。同时，贝宝的早期毕业生赢得“贝宝黑帮”这一绰号也是有原因的：穆斯
克曾经梦想发明一种革命性的电动汽车，随后就真的创办了特斯拉汽车公司
(Tesl
a)
；
泰尔基本上变为一位初创企业投资者，
< br>Facebook
就是他的经典投资案
例之一。
Ubisoft
育碧
Founders:Yves
Guillemot, Claude Guillemot, Michel Guillemot,
Gé
rard
Guillemot, and
Christian Guillemot
创始人：伊夫?吉尔莫特，克劳德?吉尔莫
特，米歇尔?吉尔莫特，热拉尔?吉尔莫
特和克里斯蒂安?吉尔莫特
In 1986, the Guillemot brothers
established this videogame publisher from a
small village in France. Inking deals
with distributors like Electronic Arts (EA),
Ubisoft soon expanded beyond its native
country to the U.S. and U.K. Now
Ubisoft has 29 development studios
across 19 countries and ranks third
behind Activision Blizzard and EA as
the third-largest independent games
publisher in the world, with popular
franchises like Just Dance, Prince of
Persia, and Assassin's Creed. All five
brothers remain involved with Ubisoft on
an everyday basis. For instance, Yves
remains as CEO, and Claude serves as
executive vice president of operations.
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1986
< br>年，吉尔莫特兄弟在法国一个小村庄创办了这家视频游戏发行商。育碧公
司（
Ubisoft
）与美国艺电
(
Electronic Arts)
等分销商达成交易后，很快就冲出
< br>发源地，扩张至美国和英国。现在，育碧在
19
个国家拥
有研发工作室，在《恰
恰舞》
(Just Dance)
，
《波斯王子》
(Prince of Pe
rsia)
和
《刺客信条》
(Assa
ssin's
Creed)
等备受欢迎的视频游戏推动下，这
家公司业已成为仅次于动视暴雪
(Activision Blizzard
）
和美国艺电的全球第三大独立游戏发行商。
吉尔
莫特五兄
弟现在依然参与育碧的日常运营工作。例如，伊夫仍然担任
CEO
，克劳德目前
担任执行副总裁。
Facebook
脸谱网
Founders:Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin
Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, and Chris Hughes
创
始人：马克?扎克伯格，达斯汀?莫斯科维茨，爱德华多?萨维林，安德鲁?麦科
勒姆和
克里斯?休斯
Over 1 billion global
users have Zuckerberg and crew to thank for
redefining
friendship in the digital
age. The product of a Harvard version of Hot or
Not in
2004,
web solution
for keeping tabs on and communicating with
classmates, friends,
and eventually,
family. So much so that Facebook(FB, Fortune 500)
is the
second-most popular Internet
site in the world. Friction among the founders
became the basis of an Oscar-winning
movie; in reality the founders have used
their wealth to fund other projects.
Hughes bought The New Republic
magazine; Moskowitz founded Asana, a
management software company;
McCollom
is an entrepreneur in residence; and Saverin, who
renounced his
U.S. citizenship, invests
in startups.
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