晨讀英語美文60篇16 Ride the Internet Wave

[00:00.00]Ride the Internet Wave [00:04.41]“As a practical matter he had no past only a future. [00:09.77]That’s when he really came alive [00:12.19]when you got him on the subject [00:13.94]of what was going to happen next.” [00:15.79]So writes Michael Lewis of Jim Clark in his new bestseller [00:20.93]The New New Thing about the people [00:23.24]in the place of the future Silicon Valley. [00:25.74]The new new thing—it’s the thing to do these days: [00:30.00]come up with an idea，start an Internet company [00:33.74]and get filthy rich. [00:35.26]Even though Yale University junior Joshua Newman [00:39.40]doesn’t quite have Clark’s billions, [00:41.82]Lewis could have been writing about Newman. [00:44.02]This Internet wonder kid [00:46.30]has already launched two start-ups and he, [00:49.06]like Clark, comes alive when you get him talking [00:52.10]about the possibilities of the future. [00:53.97]Newman grew up in Palo Alto C.A., [00:57.68]the Internet Mecca of the world, [00:59.86]but he entered Yale with no business experience [01:02.83]and certainly no intention [01:04.69]of someday starting his own company. [01:06.76]“If you told my parents [01:08.74]then that I’d be doing something like this,” [01:10.69]Newman says, [01:11.68]“there would have been mild shock and incredulity.” [01:14.65]It was during his freshman year at Yale [01:17.25]that Newman met David Fischer, [01:19.46]then a junior and the two of them began playing around [01:23.17]with the idea of starting their own business. [01:25.03]Newman’s first start up with Fischer was Sharkbyte, [01:28.96]an Internet strategy and consulting site [01:31.80]that was recently acquired by Quantrum International. [01:34.77]While others hit Wall Street [01:36.94]or Capitol Hill for fancy summer internships Newman [01:40.98]devoted his past two summers to working feverishly [01:44.39]to hit the Internet jackpot- [01:45.82]and he plans to spend this upcoming summer [01:49.20]launching his newest company Paradigm Blue, [01:52.36]a venture capital site dealing with student-driven projects. [01:55.77]During the school year Newman [01:57.95]has the typical college student’s challenge [02:00.47]of juggling school and play. [02:02.65]But in Newman’s case play is running his company, [02:06.05]meeting prospective clients [02:08.34]and driving to New York City several times a week. [02:10.98]How many hours a week during the school year [02:13.48]does Newman devote to his non-academic work? [02:16.86]Newman doesn’t keep count- [02:19.39]he’s too afraid of the figure that he’d come up with. [02:21.67]During the summer months Newman did extensive traveling, [02:24.86]meeting with potential clients all over the country. [02:28.23]He has employed several college students in his company. [02:31.84]The summer has become a popular time [02:34.70]for students to get their feet wet in the business [02:37.42]and Newman has taken advantage of that. [02:40.06]For now, Newman is focused on launching Paradigm Blue. [02:44.21]His goal is for the site to raise $10 million by May 1st [02:48.91]at which time he and his partners [02:51.33]will close the fund and start their fun. [02:53.61]What comes next who knows? [02:56.14]But that’s what’s so fun about the new new thing.

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