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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Sam Altman explains how to come up with a great startup idea”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: wave, startup, companies, cluster, somebody. Deze video bevat 43 zinnen en 616 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:21. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 184 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 14 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| startup zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | opstart, opstarting |
| cluster zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklʌstɚ/ | tros |
| solve werkwoord | /sɒlv/ | oplossen |
| fusion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfjuː.ʒən/ | fusie, samensmelting |
| percentage zelfstandig naamwoord | /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ | percentage |
| founder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | stichter, grondlegger |
| resource zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | bron, hulpbron |
| shore zelfstandig naamwoord | /ʃɔɹ/ | kust, oever |
| conviction zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈvɪkʃən/ | overtuiging |
| technological bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/ | technologisch |
| surf werkwoord | /sɝf/ | surfen |
| clone zelfstandig naamwoord | /kloʊn/ | kloon |
| disastrous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/ | rampzalig, catastrofaal |
| surfboard zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɝfˌbɔɹd/ | surfplank |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, gonna, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: solve /sɒlv/, percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/, surfboard /ˈsɝfˌbɔɹd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als startup, cluster, solve.
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