Highlights from Day39
2019-04-23 本文已影响0人
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Almost half a millennium later, when an angel investor offered $250,000 to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to bankroll Apple in 1977, it came with an ultimatum: Wozniak would have to leave Hewlett-Packard. He refused. “I still intended to be at that company forever,” Wozniak reflects. “My psychological block was really that I didn’t want to start a company. Because I was just afraid,” he admits. Wozniak changed his mind only after being encouraged by Jobs, multiple friends, and his own parents.
1.bankroll:对…提供资金,融资,to provide the money that someone needs for a business, a plan etc.是投资的非正式说法。
例句:software company bankrolled by the Samsung Group 一家由三星集团提供资金的软件公司
2.it come with…:这个短语可以用来表示条件伴随,正如本段中的“天使投资人决定投资,但有一个条件是…”
造句:She agreed to divorce him, it came with several financial conditions.
3.psychological block:心理障碍。
造句:After he witnessed his mother getting abused, he had a heavy psychological block.