????《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前創業者、現硅谷風投公司Greylock Partners的一般合伙人約瑟夫?安薩尼利就工作之余的生活、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？

????我父親會記筆記，給我寫信，在信末附上“Ad astra, per aspera”這樣的拉丁文箴言，意思是：“穿過苦難才能看見星空”。這是對創業企業的概括。

你最近讀過的一本書是什么？

????《英勇之路：二戰意大利、納粹以及激勵了整整一個國家的自行車手的真實故事》(Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation)，作者是艾麗和安德斯?麥肯農夫婦，記載了1938年環法自行車賽（Tour de France）最年輕冠軍車手基諾?巴特利的故事。

????除了從事自行車運動，巴特利還在二戰期間保護了一個猶太家庭免遭納粹的迫害。二戰期間進行的100英里訓練騎行期間，他在法西斯和納粹警察的眼皮子底下偷偷傳遞虛假身份證件。因為這些人都知道他是一位自行車冠軍，不會逮捕他。他是一位真正的英雄。

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？

????想明白自己喜歡做什么，找到干這個可以賺錢的方式。即便再難，抓住機會，別追錯了夢想，或者撿了芝麻丟了西瓜。

錯過的最佳機會是什么？

????多年前，亞馬遜(Amazon)的杰夫?貝佐斯面試過我。當時亞馬遜只有幾百個員工，我真沒想到這樣一家書籍零售網站最終會變成今天的科技巨擘。希望杰夫能原諒我。

你在學校學到的最重要的東西是什么？

????正如比爾?考斯比有一次開玩笑的那樣，我不是優等生畢業。我能畢業真是謝天謝地。

????雖然沒有獲得好成績，我還是學會了如何思考問題，解決問題，我懂得人的重要性。我遇到了一些非常出色的人，我們一起做了好幾家創業公司，包括我的第一家創業公司Trio Development。這家軟件公司已經被蘋果公司(Apple)收購。

????Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortuneturns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. This week, we asked former entrepreneur and current Greylock Partners general partner Joseph Ansanelli 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?

????My father would write notes and letters to me and often end with the phrase "Ad astra, per aspera," which translates as: "To the stars, through difficulty." That's the startup narrative in a nutshell.

What was the last book you read?

????Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili and Andres McConnon. It chronicles the story of Gino Bartali, the youngest rider to win the Tour de France in 1938.

????Beyond cycling, Bartali sheltered a Jewish family during World War II to protect them from the Nazis. And while on 100-mile training rides during the war, he smuggled counterfeit identity documents past Fascist and Nazi police because they all knew him as a cycling hero and would not arrest him. He was a true hero.

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

????Figure out what you love to do, and find a way to get paid doing it. Even though it's tough, take chances, and don't get caught up in chasing other people's dreams or going after the latest shiny penny.

What was your biggest missed opportunity?

????I interviewed with Jeff Bezos when Amazon (AMZN) had just a couple hundred employees but did not see how an online book seller could eventually become the technology juggernaut it is today. I hope Jeff can forgive me.

What was the most important thing you learned in school?

????As Bill Cosby once joked, I did not graduate magna cum laude or summa cum laude. I graduated "thank you, lordy."

????Despite not getting good grades, what I did learn was how to think and reason through hard problems, and I learned the importance of people. I met some amazing people that I worked with on several startups, including my first startup, Trio Development, a software company that Apple (AAPL) acquired.