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doubled every year, we have no debt, we have several marquee clients, our patent was issued, I have a wonderful partner whoamp。39。s been with me right from the beginning, and weamp。39。ve won more than 20 awards for the work that weamp。39。ve best of all, weamp。39。ve made a small dent a very small dent in the worldwide plastic pollution crisis. 但五年過去了,我可以興奮且自豪的告訴大家,我們的收入每年倍增,沒有外債,還有一些重要的客戶,專利申請也通過了。我有一個很棒的合伙人,他從最初就和我一起創(chuàng)業(yè),我們的工作已經(jīng)獲得了超過20個獎項。不過最好的是,我們緩解了。 微不足道地緩解了。 世界塑料污染危機(jī)。 And I am doing the most rewarding and meaningful work of my life right now. I can tell you thereamp。39。s lots of resources available to entrepreneurs of all ages, but what I really yearned for five years ago was to find other firsttime entrepreneurs who were my age. I wanted to connect with them. I had no role models, absolutely none. That 20something app developer from Silicon Valley was not my role model. 而我現(xiàn)在做著一生中 回報最為豐厚、最有意義的工作。我可以告訴大家,對各個年齡階段的 企業(yè)家,都有很多可利用的資源。但過去五年我最渴望的事情是找到其他與我同齡的,第一次創(chuàng)業(yè)的 企業(yè)家,我想和他們?nèi)〉寐?lián)系。那時我沒有可以參考的榜樣,完全沒有。硅谷那位20多歲的應(yīng)用程序開發(fā)者可不是我的榜樣。 Iamp。39。m sure he was very clever I want to do something about that, and I want all of us to do something about that. I want us to start talking more about people who donamp。39。t bee entrepreneurs until they are seniors. Talking about these bold men and women who are checking in when their peers, in essence, are checking out. And then connecting all these people across industries, across regions, across countries building a munity. 我確信他很聰明。所以,我想改變一下現(xiàn)狀,我希望所有人都可以有所行動。我希望我們可以更多的談?wù)?那些直到老年才成為企業(yè)家的人。多談?wù)撨@些勇敢的人,當(dāng)他們的同齡人退休時,他們才開始正式入行。然后,將所有這些跨行業(yè)、跨地區(qū)、跨國家的人聯(lián)合起來,組成一個社區(qū)。 You know, the Small Business Administra