????此外，大家覺得斯皮格爾什么時候可以去拿一個MBA呢？今年他23歲，和那些反戴棒球帽的鐵哥們住進(jìn)斯坦福的宿舍后，他們一直在想辦法迅速致富。從那時起，斯皮格爾就一直在為Snapchat而忙碌。他2012年畢業(yè)，在產(chǎn)品設(shè)計專業(yè)拿到了學(xué)位。要是再花兩年時間去讀研究生，那他差不多要到現(xiàn)在才能回到Snapchat。就算他上MBA夜校，Snapchat的發(fā)展勢頭也會嚴(yán)重受阻，而這種發(fā)展勢頭實際上就是Snapchat的全部實力所在。這家公司的產(chǎn)品也許代表著某種商業(yè)突破，但截至目前，它仍然給人一種曇花一現(xiàn)的感覺。對這樣的公司來說，時機(jī)就是一切。

????鑒于Snapchat目前的瘋狂氛圍，羅斯坦的觀點肯定沒人聽得進(jìn)去，而且明顯脫離實際。在那些炙手可熱的初創(chuàng)企業(yè)，CEO們并不關(guān)心那些煩人的案例分析，他們關(guān)心的只有自己的銀行賬戶和自我認(rèn)知，也許還有他們銷售的產(chǎn)品。1994年，芝加哥體育撰稿人里克?特蘭德曾在一篇臭名昭著的文章中說，如果在青少年時期參加過團(tuán)體體育項目，涅槃樂隊（Kurt Cobain）主唱科特?柯本就肯定不會自殺。羅斯坦的說辭跟特蘭德的文章略有相似之處。特蘭德也許說的對，但要是這樣的話，柯本也就永遠(yuǎn)不會成立涅槃樂隊了。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：Charlie

????And anyway, when was Spiegel supposed to have gotten this degree? He’s 23 years old, and has been working on Snapchat since he and his backward-ballcapped buddies were living in the dorms at Stanford and trying to come up with a get-rich-quick scheme. He graduated in 2012 with a degree in product design. Had he taken two years to earn a postgrad degree, he’d just be returning to Snapchat right around now. Even if he pursued his MBA at night at Bob’s Upstairs Business College, it would seriously stalled Snapchat’s momentum—and momentum is really all Snapchat has. The product might turn out to represent some kind of business breakthrough, but for now it tastes like the flavor of the month. Timing is everything with companies like this.

????Given the lunatic atmosphere of the startup scene at the moment, Rostan’s argument comes off as remarkably tin-eared and out of touch. CEOs of hot startups don’t care about your stinking case studies, they care only about their bank accounts, their egos and—maybe—the products they’re selling. Rostan’s plea is a little like when Chicago sportswriter Rick Telander infamously wrote in 1994 that, if only Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had participated in organized sports as a youth, he never would have killed himself. Which might be true, but he also never would have founded Nirvana.