Walter Driver is a longtime social gaming entrepreneur whose company, Scopely, works with independent gaming studios to co-develop, distribute, market, and monetize multiplayer games. Prior to Scopely, Walter founded and served as CEO of O Negative Media, where he developed social network gaming applications. Before that, he co-founded Ignition Interactive, one of the first developers of third party applications on the Facebook platform.

    In 2012, Driver was recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Shapers, and in 2013 he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Brown University. After he attended Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, we picked his brain about his accomplishments, technology, and the surprising thing he learned in school that has helped him as an entrepreneur.

    1. What business or technology person do you admire most? Why?

    My father, Walter Driver Jr. He's had a very successful career in law and now finance and showed me that doing everything the right way all the time pays unforeseeable dividends over time -- shortcuts rarely take you where you want to end up.

    2. What other companies do you admire? Why?

    Valve and Vice are two companies I think are very cool -- they have an identity that means something to people who work there.

    3. What technology sector excites you most?

    I'm pretty thrilled to be coming of age at the advent of the smartphone era. Having a connected device in the hands of billions of people is going to create fundamentally new opportunities that are just beginning to take shape yet and are easily taken for granted in the U.S.

    4. Is business school necessary for entrepreneurs?

    I've never had any formal business education, so I honestly don't know how useful it is, but it's definitely not a requirement. From my perspective, most people who start companies do it because they either a) are wired that way and can't imagine doing anything else, b) they have a unique insight into a particular market, or c) there's a problem they are insanely passionate about solving. Business school seems like a more useful training ground for being an executive than an entrepreneur.

    5. What is the best advice you ever received?

    Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in the short-term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long-term.

    沃尔特•德奈弗是一位社交游戏创业者，他的公司Scopely与独立游戏工作室合作开发、发行和销售多人游戏。在Scopely之前，沃尔塔还创办过O Negative Media公司，并担任CEO，在此期间开发了社交网络游戏应用。在那之前， 他与人合作创办的Ignition Interactive公司，是首批在Facebook平台上开发第三方应用的开发者之一。

    2012年，德奈弗被世界经济论坛（World Economic Forum）评为 “全球青年领袖”（Young Global Shapers），2013年，他又荣获安永年度企业家奖（Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year）。他拥有布朗大学（Brown University）英语文学文科学士学位。出席完《财富》杂志（Fortune）举办的“科技头脑风暴大会”（Brainstorm Tech）之后，他与我们分享了自己的成就，他对科技的态度，以及学校教给他的那些有助于创业的技能。

    1. 你最崇拜的商界或科技界人物是哪位？为什么？

    我的父亲小沃尔特•德奈弗。不论是在法律行业，还是在当下的金融行业，他的事业都非常成功。他让我明白，只要始终以正确的方式去做每一件事情，最终必将获得出人意料的回报——走捷径几乎不可能让你实现最终的目标。

    2. 你还崇拜其他哪些公司？为什么？

    我认为维尔福软件公司（Valve）和《Vice》杂志都很酷——它们都有自己的个性，这种个性对他们的员工意义重大。

    3. 最让你兴奋的科技行业是什么？

    智能手机时代的来临令我非常兴奋。数十亿人人手一部联网设备肯定会从根本上带来许多新的商机。不过，这些商机目前只是初露端倪，而且在美国很容易被人们当成理所当然的事情。

    4. 企业家必须读商学院吗？

    我从来没有接受过正规的商学院教育，所以坦白地说，我并不知道读商学院是否有用，但这绝对不是一个必要条件。从我的角度来看，大多数创业者之所以创业，要么是天性使然，想象不出还能做其他什么事情，要么是他们对某个特定市场有着独特的见解，又或者他们对解决某个问题充满了疯狂的激情。商学院或许更适合高管，而不是创业者。

    5. 你获得过的最好建议是什么？

    大多数人都会高估自己短期内的成绩，而低估长期的成就。

    6. What is your greatest achievement?

    The friends I've made. Life wouldn't be very much fun without them.

    7. What was the most important thing you learned in school?

    I studied creative writing in college. I was writing poetry when most of the folks that are now my peers were writing code. How to create a narrative was the most valuable thing I learned in school -- it's how humans make sense of the world.

    8. What is one goal that you would like to accomplish during your lifetime?

    My aspiration is that everyone who works at Scopely to view it as one of the highlights of their professional career.

    9. What was the last book you read?

    Spent by Geoffrey Miller. Any entrepreneur doing something consumer-facing should read it. It's a very interesting take on the real reasons we buy the things we buy.

    10. What is one unique or quirky habit that you have?

    I don't eat any condiments. No sauces of any kind. People ask what kind of diet I'm on, but no, I'm just weird like that.

    6. 你最大的成就是什么？

    我结交的这帮朋友们。如果没有了他们，我的生活将黯然失色。

    7. 你在学校学到的最重要的东西是什么？

    我在大学里学的是创意写作。当我现在的同行们正在忙着写代码的时候，我在写诗。如何创作故事是学校教给我的最宝贵的东西——这也是人类感知世界的方式。

    8. 你终生追求的人生目标是什么？

    我的愿望是，在Scopely工作的所有人都能把这段经历视为自己职业生涯中的一个闪光点。

    9. 你最近读过的一本书是什么？

    杰弗雷•米勒的《花钱》（Spent）。所有直接面对消费者的创业者都应该读一读这本书。它用一种有意思的方式解读了我们花钱买东西的真实理由。

    10. 你有什么独特的习惯或癖好？

    我不吃任何调味品。不吃任何酱料。有人问我是不是在搞什么食疗，其实不是这么回事。我就是这样一个怪人。（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓