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Startups are all consuming.
创业是很耗人的
If you start a start up, it will take over your life to a degree that you cannot imagine.
如果你开始创业，创业就会以你难以想象的程度占据你的生活
And if it succeeds, it will take over your life for a long time.
如果创业成功，很长一段时间你都得耗在该事业上
For several years, at the very least. Maybe a decade.
少则几年，可能十年
Maybe the rest of your working life.
甚至可能工作一辈子
So there's a real opportunity cost here,
有机会成本在里面
it may seem to you that Larry Page has an enviable life,
你可能羡慕Larry Page（谷歌创始人）的生活
but there are parts of it that are definitely unenviable.
但是有些地方是没什么可羡慕的
The way the world looks to him, is that he started running as fast as he could at age 25.
他的生活是这样的，他从25岁开始就全力奔跑
And he has not stopped to catch his breath since.
他来不及停下来喘口气
Every day, shit happens within the Google empire that only the emperor can deal with.
每天都有一些麻烦事困扰着谷歌帝国，只有“国王”出马才能解决
And he, as the emperor, has to deal with it.
Larry Page作为”国王”不得不出马
If he goes on vacation for even a week, a whole backlog of shit accumulates.
即使他才度假一周，麻烦事都能堆成山
And he has to bear this uncomplainingly, because, number one,as the company's daddy, he can never show fear or weakness.
他不得不毫无怨言地处理这些麻烦事，原因一是，作为公司的老大，他决不能显示出恐惧与软弱
And number two, if you're a billionaire,
原因二是，亿万富翁如果抱怨自己生活艰难的话
you get zero, actually less than zero sympathy if you complain about having a difficult life.
人们不会有一丁点的同情，甚至觉得他矫情
Which has this strange side effect
这是事业成功的一个副作用
that the difficulty of being a successful startup founder is concealed from almost everyone who's done it.
成为一名成功的创业者要经历很多苦难，而且无处倾诉，只能吞在肚里
People who win the hundred meters in the Olympics, like they walk up to them and they're going like, right.
奥林匹克百米冠军跑完后气喘吁吁
Larry Page is doing that too, but you never get to see it.
Larry Page也这样，但是我们却看不到
All right, where are we?
说到哪了？
Y Combinator has now funded several companies that could be called big successes.
YC孵化了一些异常成功的公司
And in every single case, the founders say the same thing, it never gets any easier.
其中每家公司的创始人都说自己从没有轻松过
The nature of the problems change.
不同的公司出现的问题不一样
So, you may be worrying about more glamorous problems
他们的问题可能更“高大上”一些
like construction delays in your new London offices,
例如，伦敦的新办公室交接延期了
rather than the broken air conditioner in your studio apartment.
你们的问题可能是，公寓型工作室的空调坏了
But the total volume of worry never decreases, if anything, it increases.
他们面临的问题的数目只增不减
Starting a successful startup is similar to having kids,
创立成功的公司和生孩子有相似之处
in that it's like a button you press, that changes your life irrevocably.
一旦按下“开始键”，你的生活彻底变了
And while it is, like, honestly the best thing in the world having kids.
诚然，有小宝贝是世上最美好的事情
If you take away one thing from this lecture, remember that.
如果你从该课只能学到一点的话，就是这一点
There are a lot of things that are easier to do after you, before you have kids, than after.
有很多事在有孩子前比较好办，有了后就不好办了
Many of which will make you a better parent, when you do have kids.
这些约束使你成为了更好的父母
And so, in rich countries, most people delay pushing the button for a while.
在发达国家，大部分人会推迟生孩子
And I'm sure you are all intimately familiar with that procedure.
你们懂得
