????“史蒂夫?喬布斯曾對我說，如果你對試圖達到的目標沒有一個清晰的思路，就絕不要參加某個會議，也不要打電話。紅杉資本公司（Sequoia Capital）的創始人唐?瓦倫丁告誡我要信任自己的直覺，這樣就不會陷入傳統思維，也不會試圖取悅別人。”

????“但我曾經獲得過的最好的建議來自比爾?迪得斯，這位《每日電訊報》（Daily Telegraph ）的編輯可是艦隊街（Fleet Street，英國幾家報館的總部均設于此）響當當的功勛人物。大學畢業前，我一直向往著在倫敦新聞界工作。我去辦公室拜訪比爾那天，天下著雨。他說，要是他處于我那樣的境地，他就會去美國。這番話改變了我的人生軌跡。從此以后，我就下定了去美國的決心。那個時候，我甚至無法從地圖上找出加利福尼亞州，對于那種被稱為風險資本的東西，我當然一無所知。現在，我已經在硅谷工作了30個年頭了。沒有任何地方能夠跟這里相媲美。我這樣說絲毫沒有對英國不滿的意思，我只是在回味生活在美國的種種美妙之處而已。”

邁克爾?莫里茨簡介

年齡：57歲

工作經歷：紅杉資本公司執行合伙人；目前任商務社交網站LinkedIn、獨木舟（Kayak）和綠點公司（Green Dot）的董事；谷歌（Google）、雅虎（Yahoo）和貝寶公司（PayPal）的前董事；還曾經當過記者和作家。

主要成就：硅谷具有傳奇色彩的交易撮合者，曾支持紅杉資本投資雅虎、谷歌、貝寶、美捷步網站（ Zappos.com）和其他一大批公司；早期曾在《時代》周刊【Time，歸《財富》雜志（Fortune）母公司所有】擔任專門報道硅谷的記者；1984年撰寫著作《小王國：蘋果電腦不為人知的故事》（The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer）。

????譯者：任文科

????"Steve Jobs told me that you should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without having a clear idea of what you're trying to achieve. And Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia Capital, told me to trust my instincts, which lets you avoid getting dragged into conventional thinking and trying to please others.

????"But the best advice I ever got came from Bill Deedes, who was editor of the Daily Telegraph and a grand old figure of Fleet Street. Prior to leaving college, my heart was set on working on Fleet Street. I went to see Bill one rainy day in his office. He said if he were in my shoes, he would go to America. That adjusted my compass. After that, I was hell-bent on going. At that point I would barely have been able to pick California off a map, and I certainly had no idea about anything called venture capital. I've worked for the past 30 years in Silicon Valley. There is nothing that comes close to this place. That's not an indictment of Britain, just a reflection on the wonderful benefits of living in America."

Michael Moritz

Age: 57

Job Experience: Sequoia Capital managing partner; current board member at LinkedIn (LNKD), Kayak, and Green Dot (GDOT); former board member at Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500), and PayPal; former journalist and author

Claim to Fame: Legendary Silicon Valley dealmaker who backed investments for Sequoia in Yahoo, Google, PayPal, Zappos.com, and many others; correspondent for Time (owned by the parent of Fortune's publisher) early in his career, covering Silicon Valley; wrote 1984 book The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer