乔布斯传 第212期:海盗弃船(2)

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　　事情发生后，乔布斯接到了里奇·佩奇悲愤的控诉电话，佩奇之前一直在设计大Mac的芯片组。

　　It was the latest in a series of conversations that Jobs was having with disgruntled Apple employees urging him to start a new company and rescue them.

　　乔布斯被解除管理职务后，不满的苹果员工曾陆续找他谈话，力劝他创办一家新企业来拯救他们。

　　Plans to do so began to jell over Labor² Day weekend, when Jobs spoke³ to Bud Tribble, the original Macintosh software chief,

　　劳工节的周末，创办新公司的计划开始酝酿。乔布斯同原麦金塔软件主管巴德·特里布尔谈话，

　　and floated the idea of starting a company to build a powerful but personal workstation.

　　并说出了自己的想法——创建一家公司，专门生产强大的个人工作站。

　　He also enlisted⁴ two other Macintosh division employees who had been talking about leaving,

　　他还联系到其他两位麦金塔部门员工，这两人一直都在考虑辞职。

　　the engineer George Crow and the controller Susan Barnes.

　　他们是工程师乔治·克罗和总监苏珊·巴恩斯。

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　　That left one key vacancy⁵ on the team: a person who could market the new product to universities.

　　新团队还有一个关键的职位空缺：一个可以向高校营销新产品的人。

　　The obvious candidate was Dan'l Lewin, who at Apple had organized a consortium of universities to buy Macintosh computers in bulk.

　　很明显，这一职位的合适人选是丹·卢因，卢因后来组织了一个高校联盟，向多家大学批量出售麦金塔电脑。

　　Besides missing two letters in his first name, Lewin had the chiseled⁶ good looks of Clark Kent and a Princetonian's polish.

　　丹·卢因的名字虽然比丹尼尔·卢因少了两个字母，但却拥有克拉克·肯特般轮廓鲜明的外貌、普林斯顿式的优雅。

　　He and Jobs shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis on Bob Dylan and charismatic leadership,

　　卢因和乔布斯有着共同的兴趣：卢因的大学毕业论文对鲍勃·迪伦和魅力型领导力进行了研究，

　　and Jobs knew something about both of those topics.

　　而乔布斯对这两个话题都有所了解。

　　Lewin's university consortium had been a godsend to the Macintosh group,

　　卢因的高校联盟对麦金塔团队来说是个天赐良机。

　　but he had become frustrated⁷ after Jobs left

　　但是，乔布斯离开后，卢因很泄气，

　　and Bill Campbell had reorganized marketing⁸ in a way that reduced the role of direct sales to universities.

　　比尔·坎贝尔也将营销部门进行了重组，降低了高校直销的重要性。

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