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Okay, the second part of how to hire.
好的，第二個部分就是如何雇傭
Um, try not to.
盡量不要雇傭人
So one of the weird things that you'll notice if
如果你開一家公司
you start a company is that everyone asks you how many employees you have.
你會注意到一件奇怪的事情，那就是每個人都會問你你有多少員工
And this is the metric people use to sort of judge how real your start up is and how cool you are.
這是人們用來評判你的事業(yè)有多大以及你有多了不起的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)
Um, and if you say you have a high number of employees, they're really impressed.
如果你說你有許多員工，他們就會認(rèn)為你很厲害
And if you say you have a low number of employees
如果你說你的員工很少
then, then you sound like sort of this little joke.
那么你就太失敗了
Um, but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees and you should be proud of how few employees you can have.
但實際上員工太多也不好，你應(yīng)該為你盡可能少的員工感到驕傲
Lots of employees ends up with things like a high burn rate,
許多員工最后會造成嚴(yán)重?fù)p耗
meaning that you're losing a lot of money every month, complexity, tension, slow decision making.
也就是說你每個月會支出許多錢，造成協(xié)調(diào)復(fù)雜，關(guān)系緊張，決策速度慢…
The list goes on but it's nothing good.
還有其他壞處，沒有一個好處
So you want to, you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small number of employees.
所以你要為少量的員工也能把工作做好感到自豪
Um, many of the best YC companies have had
YC孵化的許多優(yōu)秀的公司
phenomenally small number of employees for the first year, sometimes none besides the founders.
在第一年都只擁有很少的員工，有些公司除了合伙人就沒有其他人了
Um, they really try to stay small as long as they possibly can.
他們的確盡可能地把自己的員工規(guī)模縮到最小
At the beginning, you should only hire when you have the desperate need to.
最開始，你應(yīng)該只雇傭你最需要的人
Later you need to learn how to hire fast to scale up the company.
之后你要學(xué)習(xí)如何快速雇傭，擴大公司規(guī)模
But in the early days uh, the goal should be not to hire, not too higher.
但在早期，你的目標(biāo)應(yīng)該是不要雇傭太多的人
And one of the reasons this is so bad is that the cost of getting a early hire wrong is really high.
招人太多不利的一個原因是早期招到“坑爹貨”所帶來的影響真的很大
Um, in fact a lot of the companies that I have been
實際上我曾孵化過一些公司
very involved with that have had a very bad first hire in the first three or
它們都因在早期的雇傭中，開始雇的兩三個人都不好
so employees never recover from it.
而最終沒法恢復(fù)元氣
It just kills the company.
因此而關(guān)門
Um, Airbnb spent five months interviewing their first employee before they hired someone.
在雇傭第一個員工前，愛本卜花了5個月的時間對其進行面試
And in their first year they only hired two people.
在他們的第一年，他們只雇了兩個人
Um, before they hired a single person they,
在雇傭一個人之前
they wrote down a list of the cultural values that they wanted any Airbnb employee to have.
他們列出了他們想要的任何一名愛本卜員工應(yīng)有的文化價值觀
One of those was that you had to bleed Airbnb.
其中一個就是必須為愛本卜流血奮斗
And if you didn't sort of agree to that they just wouldn't hire you.
如果你不同意這一點，他們就不會雇傭你
Um, as an example of how intense Brian Chesky is, he's there being CEO.
一個關(guān)于布賴恩·切斯科執(zhí)著的例子是，他現(xiàn)在是CEO
Um, he used to ask people before he hired them at Airbnb,
他在雇傭員工之前常問他們
if they would take the job if they got a medical diagnosis that they got one year left to live.
如果診斷他們的生命只剩下一年的時間，那么他們是否還會接受這份工作
Um, he wanted them to be that committed.
他想要員工全心全意投入
Later he decided that, that was like a little too crazy.
后來他意識到這有點太瘋狂了
Um, and I think he relaxed it to ten years.
他好像把時間放寬到10年
But last I heard, he still asks that question.
但最近我聽說，他仍然在問這個問題
Um, but like, you know, these hires really matter.
但這樣雇人的確有作用
These people are what go on to define your company.
這些人是繼續(xù)定義你公司的人
And so you need people that believe in it almost as much as you do.
因此你需要和你一樣相信公司的人
And it sounds like a crazy thing to ask,
他問的問題聽起來有些瘋狂
but he's gotten this culture of extremely dedicated people.
但他的確俘獲了一群非常專注的員工
Um, that come together when the company faces a crisis.
當(dāng)公司面臨危機時，大家眾志成城
Uh, and when the company faced a big crisis early on,
之前公司面臨一次大危機
everyone in the company lived in the office,
公司的每位員工住在辦公室
and they shipped product everyday until the crisis was over.
他們每天銷售產(chǎn)品，直到他們度過危機
One of the remarkable observations about Airbnb is if you talk to any of the first, say 40 or 50 employees,
關(guān)于愛本卜的一個典型現(xiàn)象是，如果你和最先進入公司的40或50個員工談話
they all feel like they're a part of the founding of the company.
他們都覺得他們是公司的“開山人”
Uh, and this is really hard to get right and this is really rare.
這真的很難做到，很罕見
Um, but by having an extremely high bar and hiring slowly and making sure everyone believes in the mission,
但只要門檻高，雇傭速度慢，并確保每個人都視工作為使命
you can get that.
就可以做到
