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Now, this quickly, my day job sent me to work out of our Milan office for a few months,
很快，因為日常工作的緣故，我會有幾個月不在米蘭，
so I was like, what will I do?
有時候會迷惘，我要去做些啥??？
So I actually scheduled sleep on my calendar,
而實際上我忙著調(diào)整我的睡眠時間呢
and spent the 8-hour time difference on conference calls
把多出來的8個小時時差用在聯(lián)系
with material suppliers, manufacturers and potential customers.
那些供應商，制造商和潛在客源的電話會議上
And we found through this whole process, we found this great little manufacturer in Virginia,
在這過程中，我們找到了位于弗吉尼亞的這個偉大的小制造商，
and if his body language is any indication,
如果說他的肢體語言是想說明什么的話
that's the owner of what it's like
就是老板，那他的樣子就形象的再現(xiàn)了
for a manufacturer to work directly with a designer,
當制造商和設計師共事的時候，會是一副怎樣的場景
you've got to see what happens here.
正如你們現(xiàn)在所看到的這樣。
But G.S. Industries was fantastic.
不過G.S.工業(yè)公司實在是太棒了
They actually built three prototypes for us by hand.
他們?yōu)槲覀冏龀隽?個手工的模版
So now we have prototypes that can show that four people
我們現(xiàn)在有了模版，能容納四個人
can actually sleep securely and much more comfortably than a tent could ever provide.
還提升了睡覺的安全度和舒適度，這比帳篷可好多了
And they actually shipped them here to Texas for us.
他們還為我們把模版裝運到了德克薩斯州
Now, a funny thing started happening.
接著，有趣的情形出現(xiàn)了
Other people started to believe in what we were doing,
其他人開始認同我們的所作所為
and actually offered us hangar space, donated hangar space to us.
給我們提供或捐贈機庫以便工作
And then the Georgetown Airport Authority was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed.
喬治敦機場官方還愿意幫忙，竭盡所能滿足我們的任何需要。
So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with.
現(xiàn)在我們有了工作的地方，還有了制造的樣本
So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements,
接下來的一年內(nèi)，我們又和制造商商議了生產(chǎn)協(xié)議
been awarded one patent, filed our second patent,
申請到了我們的一個專利，接著又申請了第二個
talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA
和很多人交流，向聯(lián)邦應急管理局和他們的顧問展示產(chǎn)品樣本
and its consultants to rave reviews,
聯(lián)邦應急管理局的咨詢師給了很高的評價
and then started talking to some other people who requested information,
之后又開始答復一些前來咨詢的人
this little group called the United Nations.
聯(lián)合國的這群家伙
And on top of that,
正是在名單的最上端
now we have a whole plethora of other individuals that have come up
聯(lián)系我們的人實在是太多了
and started to talk to us from doing it for mining camps,
從礦區(qū)營地到移動青年旅舍
mobile youth hostels, right down to the World Cup and the Olympics.
甚至還有世界杯和奧運會
So, in closing, on this whole thing here
那么，在結(jié)束之前，我要說的是
is hopefully very soon we will not have to respond to these painful phone calls that we get
所幸我們很快就將不用再像原來一樣，在災難發(fā)生后，接到的令人痛心的電話
after disasters where we don't really have anything to sell or give you yet.
卻只能告訴他們我們現(xiàn)在還沒有現(xiàn)成的東西幫助你。
Hopefully very soon we will be there,
所幸我們很快就會達成目標
because we are destined, obsessed with making it real.
因為我們命中注定，而且執(zhí)著于把它變成實現(xiàn)
Thank you.
謝謝大家。
