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The thing that really changes the company isn’t the sales growth, though,
真正改變公司的不是銷售額，
it is the number of people.
而是員工人數。
This shows you the total here.
你可以在這表上看到。
We are now well over 15,000 employees.
我們現在有超過1.5萬名員工。
And yet, until we moved to Seattle we were about sixteen employees.
但是，在搬到西雅圖之前，我們差不多只有16個員工。
Then we got up to a little over 30 when Steve came.
我們的員工數目增加到30多人。
Then right after Steve Ballmer comes
在史蒂夫來了之后，
then you see these periods of 40 to 129，220— 476 increasing at a very rapid rate.
從40到129、220到476，增長非常迅速。
It is swell because you can have all these other product groups.
迅速膨脹是因為你可以擁有其他所有這些產品組。
You can sell around the world and you can do better product support.
你可以在全世界銷售產品并可以提供更好的支持。
You can lavish on the developers a great library.
可以斥巨資為開發人員建一座圖書館。
You can start a research group that is looking way out into the future.
可以組建一個前景規化研究團隊。
And your recruiting department can be the best at going out to all of those universities.
你的人力資源團隊可以找到大學里最好的畢業生。
So many excellent things that the energetic，smart people we hired empowered us to do.
所以，我們雇用的很多精力充沛且聰明的員工，可以幫助我們做許多優秀的事情。
But it does mean that I got to the point where I couldn’t look at all of the code,
但這也就意味著，我不再可以了解到一切，
which I had done in the early years.
像早先一樣。
At 100 people, I knew everybody.
100個人的時候，我認識所有的人。
I even knew their license plates when they came and went.
上下班時，我甚至可以認出他們的車牌。
I knew really what everyone was up to.
我知道每個人到底是做什么的。
By the time it got to 1,000 that was no longer the case.
員工數量達到1000 人的時候，事情就不是這樣了。
I was hiring the managers and knew all of the managers,
我雇用了管理人員，并且了解所有的管理層，
but there was a level of indirection.
這樣就有了間接的層級。
And, certainly, as you go up over 10,000 then there are several levels indirect.
當然，當人數增加到1萬的時候，間接的層級就更多了。
There are some products that you certainly know how they fit in if you are setting the overall strategy.
如果你做市場的整體戰略的話，你當然會知道一些產品應該是怎樣的。
Now electronic mail has been a huge phenomena for us.
現在，使用電子郵件已是普遍現象了。
And it keeps a little bit of a closer feel even if somebody’s office is in another building，
即使是跟在另外一棟辦公樓的人，
you’re always sending them messages.
你們也可以經常傳信息，讓人感覺很近。
Or, even if they’re off in another country it makes that easy.
或者，即使他們是在國外，你們溝通起來也很方便。
So, we are not as big as our size suggests,
所以，我們看起來并不像公司規模那樣大，
But, it certainly has a bit of a different feel than the small company.
但是感覺當然會有和小公司不一樣。
At the same time, has your culture changed?
同時，你的企業文化改變了嗎？
Or has it been pretty stable?
還是一直保持原有的？
Well, the culture, of course, varies by group.
嗯，企業文化，當然，不同的團隊有不同的文化。
The sales force has great sales people and have the same enthusiasm for software,
銷售團隊有很好的銷售人員，軟件團隊也很有工作熱情，
but their day-to-day activity and measurement is quite different.
但是他們每天的工作和衡量尺碼卻是不一樣的。
In the product groups it is pretty similar today.
現在，產品部門的文化都很相似。
The developers like writing great code.
開發人員喜歡編寫好的程序。
They like collaborating with the team,
他們喜歡與團隊合作，
they like getting things out every eighteen months.
喜歡每18個月都拿出成果。
They like watching the competition.
他們樂于看到競爭。
If somebody is very smart and contributing a lot, then it is fun.
如果有人很聰明并樂于奉獻，那么這里就會很有趣。
If they don’t match that kind of level of energy,
如果他們達不到那樣的精力水平，
then it is really not the right place for them.
那么這里并不適合他們。
It is an exciting thing.
這是一件令人興奮的事情。
It is still a little bit different.
但是也有不同于其他公司的地方。
People can’t come and talk to me everyday.
大家不能每天都來找我談話。
And so they have to look to their Business Unit Manager,
所以，他們要去找他們的部門經理，
which is how we have it setup.
這是我們建立的管理模式。
Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture,
當然，我們希望保持所有這些企業文化，
and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line,
保持大企業的優勢，有一條很廣泛的生產線，
with stability, worldwide presence, great support,
有穩定性，在全球有廣闊的市場，強大的支持，
and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.
同時也擁有小軟件公司的優勢。
Is there anything else you want to add?
還有什么其他的想補充的嗎？
I’d say that my job, throughout all this, has been, I think,
我想說，我的工作，通過這一切來看，
the most fun job I can imagine having.
我想是我可以想象到的最有趣的工作了。
And partly the people I’ve gotten to work with outside the company.
部分原因是與公司外部一些優秀人才的合作。
Certainly there are great people inside the company.
當然，公司里也有很多出色的人才。
And certainly, for at least a decade or that will just continue to be the case.
當然，在未來至少10年的時間里，都會是這樣。
