????現(xiàn)在是晚上11點(diǎn)，地點(diǎn)是在奧斯丁城區(qū),，我們坐在一輛不像校車的校車?yán)锩娑抵ψ樱盒＼囇b著深色的車窗,，車尾有一個(gè)吧臺(tái)，發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的護(hù)柵上綁著擴(kuò)音器,，墻上掛著九寸釘樂(lè)隊(duì)（Nine Inch Nails）海報(bào),，一個(gè)看上去和聽(tīng)上去都非常昂貴的系統(tǒng)大聲播放著電子樂(lè)whomm-whomm-whomping。車上坐了25個(gè)人,，大部分都抓著車頂?shù)姆鍪?，每次轉(zhuǎn)彎的時(shí)候都歪歪斜斜,。幾個(gè)女人在自顧自地跳著舞,。

????我們正在參加西南偏南音樂(lè)節(jié)（South by Southwest）。以前,，這個(gè)音樂(lè)節(jié)是為給一些不出名的樂(lè)隊(duì)提供與唱片公司簽約的機(jī)會(huì),。如今，它似乎完全演變成了科技界的盛宴,。Zappos.com公司CEO謝家華預(yù)定了派對(duì)巴士,。車上坐的都是謝家華的朋友：其中一位把來(lái)自?shī)W斯丁的創(chuàng)業(yè)家把上一家公司賣給了社交游戲公司Zynga，還有谷歌（Google）風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資基金的一位成員,；一位彼得?泰爾創(chuàng)始人基金會(huì)（Founders Fund）的合伙人,；還有一位女士，在拉斯維加斯城區(qū)附近創(chuàng)辦了一家烤辣味干酪玉米片的餐廳,，謝家華在其中投入了數(shù)百萬(wàn)資金用于餐廳重建,。車上還有一位20歲的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資人阿歷克斯?班納言：他是車上最年輕的一位，早已把自己介紹給大家認(rèn)識(shí),。聽(tīng)著刺激的音樂(lè),，我已經(jīng)不止一次聽(tīng)到他大喊：“太棒了！”

????班納言是世界上最年輕的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資人,。他目前在舊金山風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司Alsop Louie任職,，公司旗下管理著1.5億美元資金。此外,，他還是蘭登書屋（Random House）旗下皇冠出版社（Crown Business）最年輕的簽約作者,，可能也是唯一一位同時(shí)接到MTV（拍攝個(gè)人真人秀節(jié)目）和環(huán)球唱片公司（Interscope Records）一位唱作人邀請(qǐng)（擔(dān)任經(jīng)紀(jì)人），但都婉言謝絕的大學(xué)生,。

????斯圖爾特?奧爾索普表示,，之所以聘用班納言，是因?yàn)檫@個(gè)20歲的年輕人身上有一種比技術(shù)專業(yè)能力更重要的東西：積極活躍,。班納言跟奧爾索普和他的合伙人吉爾曼?雷講了他在《價(jià)格競(jìng)猜》（The Price Is Right ）中獲勝的經(jīng)歷（他贏得了3,2000美元獎(jiǎng)金,，包括一艘18英尺長(zhǎng)的帆船，一張臺(tái)球桌，還有一次零重力飛行之旅）,，盡管他從來(lái)沒(méi)有完整地看過(guò)哪怕一期節(jié)目,。他還講到了自己在派對(duì)上遇到的那些南加州大學(xué)（University of Southern California）的創(chuàng)業(yè)新人，還有他的圖書合約,。這位新生代作家從這份合約中獲得了高達(dá)六位數(shù)的天價(jià)預(yù)付款,。他說(shuō)，為了寫這本書,，他希望能采訪世界上最成功的那些人,，比如沃倫?巴菲特、比爾?克林頓,、比爾?蓋茨,、坎耶?韋斯特、馬克?扎克伯格等,，描寫一下當(dāng)他們?cè)谌松跗跓o(wú)人問(wèn)津的時(shí)候,，如何尋求突破。不過(guò),，人們倒是很愿意與班納言見(jiàn)面,。

????奧爾索普說(shuō)：“他的自信心令人難以置信?！眾W爾索普曾經(jīng)是一名記者【曾為《財(cái)富》雜志（Fortune）供稿】,，他的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人雷曾負(fù)責(zé)運(yùn)營(yíng)美國(guó)中情局（CIA）的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資基金。奧爾索普和雷都希望能有人替他們跟蹤洛杉磯的初創(chuàng)企業(yè),。班納言正是他們心目中的人選,，班納言被選中時(shí)還是南加州大學(xué)的大三學(xué)生。盡管還只是奧爾索普口中的“孩子”,，但班納言已經(jīng)承擔(dān)了巨大的責(zé)任?，F(xiàn)在他面臨著每一個(gè)新入行的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資人都需要面對(duì)的挑戰(zhàn)：完成投資任務(wù)。我在奧斯丁見(jiàn)到他時(shí),，他與Alsop Louie簽約已經(jīng)滿了一年,，仍然在尋找第一筆大買賣。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

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????It's 11 p.m. in downtown Austin, and we're driving in circles in a very un-school-bus-like school bus: blacked-out windows, a bar in the back, bullhorns strapped to the grille, Nine Inch Nails posters on the walls, dubstep whomm-whomm-whomping through what looks and sounds like an expensive, very loud sound system. There are 25 of us onboard. Most hang on to overhead straps, leaning into each turn. A group of women is dancing, somehow.

????We are at South by Southwest, a festival that used to be about undiscovered bands getting signed by record labels and is now seemingly wholly given over to Tech with a capital T. The party bus was booked by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com. All Hsieh's friends are aboard: There's an Austin entrepreneur who sold his last company to Zynga (ZNGA); a member of Google's venture capital fund; a partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund; and a woman who started a nachos restaurant near downtown Las Vegas, where Hsieh is sinking hundreds of millions of his own money into redevelopment. Also aboard: a 20-year-old venture capitalist named Alex Banayan. He's the youngest person on the bus by a decade, and he has already introduced himself to everyone. More than once, over the sonic assault I hear his voice shout, "That's awesome!"

????Banayan is the world's youngest venture capitalist. He works for the San Francisco firm Alsop Louie, which manages $150 million. He's also the youngest author signed at Crown Business, a Random House imprint, and probably the only college student in the world to have received offers from MTV (for his own reality-TV show) and from a singer-songwriter at Interscope Records (to manage him) and turned both down.

????Stewart Alsop says that he hired Banayan because he saw something in the 20-year-old that was, to him, more important than tech expertise: hustle. Banayan told Alsop and his partner, Gilman Louie, about how he won on The Price Is Right despite never having watched a full episode. (He earned $32,000 in prizes, including an 18-foot sailboat, a billiards table, and a zero-gravity plane trip.) He told them about all the budding University of Southern California entrepreneurs he was meeting at parties and, later, his book deal, for which the first-time author got a substantial six-figure advance. For the book, he told them, he hoped to interview some of the world's most successful people -- Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Mark Zuckerberg -- and write about how they broke through early in life when no one would take their meetings. People take Banayan's meetings.

????"He's incredibly self-confident," says Alsop, who used to be a journalist (and wrote forFortune) and whose co-founder, Louie, used to run the CIA's venture investment fund. Alsop and Louie wanted someone to track startups across L.A. for them. In Banayan, a USC junior, they had found their man. Banayan has been given an enormous amount of responsibility for someone Alsop still calls a "kid," and he now faces the challenge that greets every new VC: closing. A year after signing with Alsop Louie, when I met him in Austin, he was still searching for that first big deal.