You hear these famous stories of Zuckerberg and his team going to VC's in their pajamas and showing up late and being kind of rude.

你听说过扎克伯格和他的团队穿着睡衣风险投资公，迟到和粗鲁的著名故事。

Increasingly, though, the venture-capital (vc) industry is showing an interest.

尽管如此，风险投资(Vc)行业也对这一领域表现出了越来越浓的兴趣。

That's where venture capital or VC comes in.

这就需要进行风险投资。

Others have been piling in, including Sea, a Singaporean tech conglomerate, Founders Fund, a prominent Silicon Valley venture-capital (VC) firm, and Tiger Global, an aggressive New York hedge fund that has recently been shaking up the VC world.

其他投资公纷纷涌入，包括新加坡科技集团Sea，硅谷著名风险投资公Founders Fund，以及最近撼动风投界的激进纽约对冲Tiger Global。

Thanks in part to new types of investor, such as hedge funds and corporations, ploughing more cash into the sector, last year was a bumper one for venture-capital (VC) deals.

部分原因是对冲和公等新型投资者向该行业投入了更多资，是风险投资交易的丰收之。

Now, not all of us will have to be in rural, or selling something, or we have to make a pitch to a VC.

现在，并不是我们所有人都必须在农村、卖东西或者向风投推销。

VC firms have to examine why they often reject pitches by minority entrepreneurs; a simple " just can't get excited about this" is no longer enough.

风险投资公必须研究为什么他们会常拒绝少数族裔的投资；一句简单的“就是对此不感兴趣”已不够了。

Nick Cooney is a partner of Lever VC, a U.S.-Asian investor focused on the new food companies.

尼克·库尼（Nick Cooney）是关注初创食品公的美国亚洲风险投资Lever VC的合伙人。

Founders Fund, the VC firm launched by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is backing a nuclear fuel start-up.

由亿万富翁投资者彼得·蒂尔创办的风险投资公 Founders Fund 正在支持一家核燃料初创公。

I have so many friends in VC from GSB.

我有很多来自 GSB 的创业投资朋友。

About one in 50 partners at venture-capital (vc) firms is black.

而在风险投资公，大约每50个合伙人中就有一个是黑人。

Andreessen Horowitz are Big Tech, they are Silicon Valley, massive VC funds.

安德森·霍洛维茨是大科技公，他们是硅谷，大规模的风险投资。

So you guys all just saw Reed sweat bullets in front of a board of VC investors, and quite frankly, in front of all of you guys.

所以，大家都亲眼目睹了里德在众多风险投资者面前汗如雨下的情景，坦率地说，他站在你们每个人的面前。

Yet amid the doom and gloom, venture-capital (vc) firms and entrepreneurs are already doing the thing they believe they do best: divining the future in their crystal balls.

然而尽管前途无望，风险投资公和企业家们已在做他们认为自己做的最好的事情：用水晶球预测未来。

We've all been in these really awful situations where we've just felt down in the dumps after we blew a big meeting because we were too nervous, we couldn't get that VC pitch made right.

我们都有过这种糟糕的历，在我们搞砸了一个大型会议后，我们感到情绪低落，因为我们太紧张了，我们无法正确地进行风险投资。

They should also broaden their professional networks beyond the usual lily-white crowd, argues Elliott Robinson of Bessemer Venture Partners, a big vc firm.

大型风险投资公Bessemer Venture Partners的艾略特·罗宾逊认为，他们应该扩大自己的专业网络，不再只是常见的白人群体。

And whether you're trying to pitch a VC, or you're working on issue with your spouse, or just trying to be playful again.

无论你是在找风险投资，还是在和你的搭档解决问题，或者只是想再玩一次。

But I'd never taken the time to understand what was motivating that VC to invest.

但我从来没有花时间了解是什么促使 VC 进行投资。

Later that year, they raised a further $7.1 million from VC firms.

同晚些时候，他们从风险投资公获得了额外的710万美元融资。

We're talking about him coming on the podcast, maybe breaking our VC rule.

我们正在讨论让他上播客的事，或许会打破我们的风投规则。