作者 | 王淮Harry编辑 | 胡艺缤Abby | 张硕何James图片来源 | 线性资本


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本文为线性资本创始人&CEO; 王淮Harry于上海美国商会的2019 AmCham Shanghai HR Conference大会上的发言原文。
王淮于会上发表了题为「The Merits of Investable Talents in the Tech Business」的主题分享，着重阐述了线性资本在看人逻辑上的思路。


01.创始人介绍
Harry was the first Chinese R&D; manager in Facebook and his occupational history consisted of the backend development for News Feed and Social Ads, the product development for Virtual Currency and the development for Payment Backend and Security. 
He used to serve as the CEO advisor in Dianping.com, Baixing.com, and CSDN. Besides, Harry was also the author of a bestseller, How Facebook was Engineered.
In addition to this, Harry owns Stanford's MS&E; degree and Zhejiang University's bachelor degree in computer science. 
Harry also is a Fellow of the third class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and Young Global Leader, Class of 2018, World Economic Forum.


02.演讲视频与原文

Harry WANG:
Thanks Tony for inviting me to share our thoughts on the talents chasing game.
Basically the script we have been playing is like this - you find a great talent doing what they love, and what you believe as well. 
You put in your money with fingers crossed and hope in 5-10 years, you get 20x back.  And most time you don’t. 
You get zero back if you are betting on the wrong talents or the wrong problems. Clearly it’s been a tough journey giving out money to the hands of the  supposedly right people.
We have had lessons of losing millions of dollars, but also made way more than that during the process.
I’d like to spend the next 20 minutes to try to answer some questions that I think are the most important during the capital chasing talents game.
Before that, let me quickly introduce Linear’s background so that you will see why we act the way we believe.
First and foremost, I would like to share with you of our key code:
What - 3P3C
And Credible - if given enough time, continuously practicing the above 5 merits will make you a credible person. And the whole capital-talent game is eventually a trust-based business. 
If you are perceived as a credible person with top skills, I would want to trust you with our money. I know you will try all means to make the impossible possible.


How to win them?
You cannot go to them and say that - I want to invest in you. Show what you are capable of and we are game.
No, you will scare them off.
In our process, talent sourcing predates deal sourcing. We want to make friends with these folks - potentially investable talents.  But not necessarily that we have to invest them.
We want to reach out to them well before they are thinking about running their own companies so that we have enough time to study them, learn from them and help them in many ways - with investment being just one way.
We want to be friends.
If we eventually invest, great for both of us. If we don’t invest but have learned some great science or technology know-how and have brought in some investor views to their worlds, also great.
We practice 「give first, to get second」 principle. We are fine with getting either an investment opportunity or a learning opportunity.
It’s a long journey and we need to plan it out in a long term fashion.
If you come with a transaction mentality, they will treat you as an opportunist and they will by nature be very careful about what information to share with you.
And without thorough and enough information of good quality, you won’t be able to make the right decision.
If you come with a long term mentality and being willing to practice 「give to get」, you will be treated as a friend.
A good friend at the same time a great talent will have a much higher probability to give you a great return. And life is much easier with friends.
Isn’t it?











王淮Harry




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