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????他曾經效力于谷歌，后來又拒絕了Facebook扎克伯格的工作邀請，最終決定自立門戶。他認為，在學校最重要的是要學會自主思考。他還說，讀商學院對創業不僅沒幫助，反而還是個阻礙。

????《財富》雜志舉辦的科技頭腦風暴大會（7月22日至24日在美國科羅拉多州阿斯彭召開）定期召集科技創新領域最優秀和最聰明的思想家相聚一堂。每周，《財富》雜志都會重點推介一位大會嘉賓，分享他/她對于商業、科技和創業的真知灼見。本周，我們代表年輕企業家向Keas創始人兼首席技術官亞當?博斯沃思就工作之余的生活、最崇拜的公司以及行業建議提出了10個問題。他的回答如下。

你獲得過的最好建議是什么？

????不明白就要問。我在微軟（Microsoft）工作時，每次有什么搞不懂的，我就會說：“我就是個來自佛蒙特鄉下的無知小子，我搞不懂這東西”，而經過異常多時間才搞清楚，有些東西本身就有問題。

????我離開微軟時，他們給我買了個域名“來自維蒙特農村的鄉下小子”作為我離職的禮物。當我進入醫療領域（這促使我創立Keas），我一直在問有關美國醫療體系的傻問題。直到有一天，我意識到這些問題并不傻。這個體系完全沒道理。它事實上在最大程度地鼓勵每個人生病，然后病得越來越重，甚至差一點沒命。這是個什么樣的“醫保體系”啊？

你最近看的一本書是什么？

????《鹽、糖和脂肪》（Salt, Sugar, Fat）。它講述了食品行業的內幕。一方面，他們讓食品越來越誘人，越來越有害人體，但另一方，他們卻掩蓋了工業食品給人們健康帶來的重大威脅，做法跟煙草行業過去的所作所為如出一轍，讀來令人不寒而栗。

當前就業市場非常嚴峻，對于即將進入這個市場的年輕人，你想說些什么？

????學了什么并不重要。你是什么樣的人很重要。歸根結底，聰明的公司會雇傭、提拔和獎勵擁有以下五種素質的員工：

????1.聰明才智

????2.工作勤奮且精力充沛

????3.講究實效

????4.出色的團隊合作能力

????5.持續不斷學習和應用新技能的能力。

????選一份你喜歡的工作，一份你認為具有挑戰性、能讓你與眾不同的工作，別擔心錢的問題（等到你35-40歲時還有很多的時間去賺錢），只需證明你擁有這5項素質。我招聘這樣的人加入Keas。我不擔心他們是否擁有計算機科學學歷，或者是否有健康行業的背景。我擔心的是他們是否具備上述五項素質。

????你錯過的最佳機會是什么？

????2007年，馬克?扎克伯格給了我一個非常棒的工作機會，我拒絕了，但這是一個有意錯過的機會。我當時很想看看，對于美國越來越糟糕的健康習慣這一大難題，我能做點什么，后來我決定創立Keas。

您在學校學到的最重要的東西是什么？

????自主思考。

????Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortune turns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. This week, we asked Keas Founder and CTO Adam Bosworth to answer 10 questions about life outside of work, the company he admires most, and industry advice for young entrepreneurs. His responses follow.

What is the best advice you ever received?

????If you don't understand something, ask. At Microsoft, whenever I didn't understand something I'd say, "I'm just a simple country boy from Vermont and I don't understand this" and an extraordinary amount of the time that turned out to be because it didn't make sense.

????When I left Microsoft they gave me simplecountryboyfromvermont.com as a going away present. When I got into health, which led to Keas, I kept asking dumb questions about our healthcare system until I realized that they weren't dumb. The system just didn't make sense. It literally provided the maximum incentives for getting everyone sick and then keeping them as sick as possible short of dying. How is that a "healthcare system"?

What was the last book you read?

????Salt, Sugar, Fat - Horrifying read about how the food industry has worked, much like the tobacco industry did before, to hide the huge health costs of their food while making it more and more addictive and more and more damaging to us.

What would you say to a group of young people looking to enter the tough job market?

????It doesn't matter what you know. It matters who you are. At the end of the day, smart companies hire, promote, and reward employees who demonstrate five qualities:

????1. Intelligence

????2. Hard work and energy

????3. Pragmatism

????4. Excellent teamwork

????5. The ability to constantly learn new skills and apply everything they've ever learned.

????Pick any job you love that you think will challenge you and let you make a difference, don't worry at all about the money (plenty of time for that in your late 30's) and just prove that you have these five qualities. I hire people like this into Keas. I don't worry if they have CS degrees or a background in health. I worry about these five qualities.

What was your biggest missed opportunity?

????I turned down an extraordinary offer from Mark Zuckerberg in 2007 but it was a conscious missed opportunity. I wanted to see if I could make a dent in the huge problem that our ever-worsening health habits are for our country and decided to start Keas instead.???

What was the most important thing you learned in school?

????To think for myself.