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Wait to have a good idea before you start a startup.
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If you start a startup without a good idea, and you just kind of cast around for one, You'll be under pressure to make something up, it won't work that well.
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The very best startups are all started because someone believes so passionately in an idea, and they believe that a startup is the best way to make that happen.
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One of the things that is really hard about good ideas is that original thought is really hard.
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Most people just copy somebody else's thoughts.
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Most people do what somebody else is doing.
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And This is disastrous because if you have one idea that starts to work, and you have 10 ,000 clones, that follow it?
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none of you are going to be successful, and the person that started first that you all copied is very likely to win.
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You know, in the year after Facebook started, there were well over a thousand social networks that started.
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in the year after Instagram started there were well over a thousand photo sharing apps that started
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But you want to do something that is new and different.
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You want to think of an idea that's not the same idea everybody else is working on.
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Um, Thank you.
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The year that I joined the board of Helion, which is a nuclear fusion company, Um, According to somebody's count,
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there were 10 ,000 photo startups of some sort or other started that year, and one nuclear fusion startup started.
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which seemed a little bit off to me.
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But I think most people just do what everybody else is doing right then.
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Noticing problems in your own life is certainly a good way to do this.
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It's not true that all successful startups are starting to solve a problem that the founders have themselves.
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but is a very high percentage.
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If you really go back and think about the transformational companies, most of them start with someone solving their own problem.
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And then there's this idea of a great wave.
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which is that another thing you notice if you go back and look at all the really successful companies
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is there was this massive wave of technology coming
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you could see it in the distance
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and you knew it was going to just like crash over the shore and through the city.
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and you got out there early on your surfboard.
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um So I think it's really hard to create a technology wave as a startup.
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That takes too much too many resources, you can't do that.
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But what you can do is notice that a wave is coming.
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and university students are particularly good at this.
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You can notice that a technological wave is coming, and while other people still think it's a toy are not gonna matter,
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you can really get conviction behind it and surf somebody else's wave.
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This, by the way, I think is the reason
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that great company - there tends to be these clusters in time when a lot of great companies started.
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So, you know, when the internet wave happened, in the mid to late 90s.
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You had a huge cluster of companies that are now very large, Amazon, Google, um, Yahoo, I guess.
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Others.
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And then when the mobile wave happened after the iPhone came out, 2007 -2008 you had this other big wave of Uber,
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Airbnb, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, in this short period of time right after this new wave started.
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And a really good question to ask is what is the wave that's starting right now
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and where is the cluster of companies, because we're about due for another one, where's that going to be?
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Sam Altman explains how to come up with a great startup idea”. Las palabras que más se repiten: wave, startup, companies, cluster, somebody. Este vídeo tiene 43 frases y 616 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:21. El hablante habla rápido, unas 184 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
startup sustantivo/ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/arranque
cluster sustantivo/ˈklʌstɚ/aglomeración, agrupamiento
solve verbo/sɒlv/resolver, solucionar
fusion sustantivo/ˈfjuː.ʒən/fusión
percentage sustantivo/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/porcentaje
founder sustantivo/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/fundador, fundadora
resource sustantivo/ɹɪˈzɔːs/recurso
shore sustantivo/ʃɔɹ/orilla, vera
conviction sustantivo/kənˈvɪkʃən/convicción
technological adjetivo/ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/tecnológico
surf verbo/sɝf/surfear
clone sustantivo/kloʊn/clon
disastrous adjetivo/dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/desastroso
passionately adverbio/ˈpæʃənətli/apasionadamente
surfboard sustantivo/ˈsɝfˌbɔɹd/tabla de surf, tabla hawaiana

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz
get out verbosalir

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, gonna, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: solve /sɒlv/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/, technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como startup, cluster, solve.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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