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By Taylor Lorenz
泰勒·洛伦兹(Taylor Lorenz)
For young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry — or any industry, really — has become far more difficult during the pandemic. In-person networking events and club meetings are on hold, there aren’t many online hubs for informal connection, and the investors and founders whose buy-in can make or break a product are harder to reach.
对于年轻人而言，在大流行期间，闯入残酷的科技行业(或实际上是任何行业)变得更加困难。 面对面的社交活动和俱乐部会议被暂停，没有用于非正式联系的在线枢纽，而且买入能够制造或破坏产品的投资者和创始人也很难达到。
In late July, Emma Salinas, a 20-year-old designer and engineer in San Francisco, and her friend Carson Poole, 21, a founder of an artificial intelligence startup, decided it was time to do something about it. Salinas set up a server on the messaging platform Discord called Gen Z Mafia (riffing on the PayPal Mafia, a set of early employees at the company who went on to become industry leaders) to communicate and connect with other young people seeking to break into the industry.
7月下旬，现年20岁的旧金山设计师兼工程师Emma Salinas和她的朋友，21岁的人工智能初创公司创始人Carson Poole决定是时候对此做些事情了。 Salinas在Discord消息传递平台上建立了一个名为Gen Z Mafia的服务器(对PayPal Mafia进行了收购，这是该公司的一批早期员工，后来成为行业领导者)，以便与寻求闯入该行业的其他年轻人进行沟通和联系行业。
Within weeks, hundreds of people had joined, including high school students, college-age founders and young employees at major tech companies. Together, the server’s members are collaborating, networking and building products that they hope will shape the future.
在几周内，数百人加入了会议，包括高中生，大学时代的创始人和大型科技公司的年轻员工。 服务器的成员在一起，正在协作，联网和构建他们希望将塑造未来的产品。
Long Tran, 17, built a tool to help protect people from harassment on Twitter. Snigdha Roy, 16, is attempting to use machine learning to create an AI therapist. Several Gen Z Mafia members built vibes.fyi, an online bulletin board that spreads positivity. Cloakview.ai is an effort to build technology to outsmart Clearview AI’s facial recognition system. It is in development.
17岁的Long Tran建立了一种工具，可帮助保护人们免受Twitter上的骚扰。 16岁的Snigdha Roy正在尝试使用机器学习来创建AI治疗师。 Z族黑手党的几位成员建立了vibes.fyi ，这是一个传播积极信息的在线公告板。 Cloakview.ai致力于构建超越Clearview AI面部识别系统的技术。 它正在开发中。
“One thing we can all agree on is a willingness to get out there and build things,” said Justin Zheng, 19, one of the founders of the group. “Yeah, we build some meme products, but we also build mission-driven things. We want to build a more positive internet, things that help people.”
该组织的创始人之一，现年19岁的贾斯汀·郑说：“我们所有人都可以同意的一件事就是愿意在那里建立起来。” “是的，我们制造了一些模因产品，但我们还制造了任务驱动型产品。 我们希望建立一个更积极的互联网，帮助人们。”
“Yeah, we build some meme products, but we also build mission-driven things,” said Justin Zheng, 19. “We want to build a more positive internet, things that help people.” Photo: Jason Henry for The New York Times 19岁的贾斯汀·郑(Justin Zheng)说：“是的，我们开发了一些模因产品，但我们还开发了任务驱动型产品。我们希望构建更积极的互联网，以帮助人们。” 照片：《纽约时报》的杰森·亨利(Jason Henry)The group was founded as a kind of counterpoint to the Silicon Valley establishment, which its members say is exclusive, elitist and riddled with systemic problems including sexism, ageism and racism. Rather than reinforcing norms and kowtowing to the most prominent and outspoken venture capitalists on Twitter, Gen Z Mafia members have tried to cultivate an environment that feels inclusive and aligned with their values.
该组织的成立是为了对抗硅谷的建立，该组织的成员称该组织是排他性的，精英主义的，充满系统性问题，包括性别歧视，年龄歧视和种族主义。 Z族黑手党成员并没有加强规范，不愿与Twitter上最杰出和直言不讳的风险投资家见面，而是试图营造一种包容并符合其价值观的环境。
Several partners and limited partners at old-school funds — whom Mafia members refer to jokingly as “daddies” — are on the server, but their access to most of the content is restricted. Anyone over the age of 24 is placed into a group called Daddy Gang and limited to only a few channels.
黑手党成员开玩笑地说，老式基金的几个合伙人和有限合伙人在服务器上，但是他们对大多数内容的访问受到限制。 任何24岁以上的人都会被归入名为Daddy Gang的组，并且仅限于少数几个频道。
“We wanted to provide an intimate space where people could send memes and be themselves and not be scared to say something because the VCs are there,” said Sudarshan Sridharan, 20, a founder of the group. “They’ve got a lot of money, though, and we want them to give it to people in the group.”
“我们希望提供一个私密的空间，人们可以发送模因并成为自己，而不要因为风险投资人而害怕说些什么，”该组织的创始人20岁的Sudarshan Sridharan说。 “不过，他们有很多钱，我们希望他们把钱捐给小组中的人。”
Sahil Lavingia, an entrepreneur turned investor, said he hopes to serve as a “cool uncle” for the next generation of tech leaders. “They can ask for help, but I’m not going to tell them how to live their life,” Lavingia, 28, said. “I’m a visitor in this space, and I’m not there to tell them what to do or how they should implement community in this new era.”
企业家转变为投资者的萨希尔·拉维尼亚(Sahil Lavingia)表示，他希望成为下一代技术领袖的“酷叔叔”。 “他们可以寻求帮助，但我不会告诉他们如何过生活，” 28岁的拉文尼亚说。 “我是这个领域的访客，我不在那里告诉他们在新时代应该做什么或应该如何实施社区。”
There is an application form to join, but the group’s founders say it’s a formality. “Gen Z Mafia is a very inclusive community,” Tran said, adding that the server’s users “have different political views, but we try not to stomp on each other.”
有一份申请表可以参加，但该小组的创始人说这是手续。 Tran说：“ Gen Z Mafia是一个非常包容的社区，并补充说该服务器的用户具有不同的政治见解，但我们尽量避免互相on脚。”
“One of the greatest parts of our group is how many ways we support each other,” said Johnny Dallas, 18, an engineer at Amazon. “We all beta each other’s products, upvote every Product Hunt post, teach each other our expertise and take any opportunity to use each other’s products.”
“我们团队中最重要的部分之一就是我们有多少相互支持的方式，”亚马逊工程师18岁的约翰尼·达拉斯说。 “我们都对彼此的产品进行Beta测试，在每个“产品搜索”帖子上进行评论，互相学习我们的专业知识，并抓住任何机会使用彼此的产品。”
Sudarshan Sridharan, 20, is a founder of the group. “We wanted to provide an intimate space where people could send memes and be themselves and not be scared to say something because the V.C.s are there,” he said. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times 20岁的Sudarshan Sridharan是该小组的创始人。 他说：“我们希望提供一个私密的空间，人们可以发送模因并成为自己，而不必害怕说些什么，因为风险投资家在那里。” 照片：《纽约时报》的卡洛斯·伯纳特(Carlos Bernate)The group has a laid-back, playful vibe. Its most senior members are known as “the Ministry of Building,” a play on a recent post by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen titled “It’s time to build.” Other channels include Unicorn Factory, for discussing big ideas and potential startup plans, and Hell Chat, for posting jokes. Members have also built spaces for different interests like Minecraft, memes, fashion, gaming, crypto and YouTube.
该小组有一个悠闲，有趣的氛围。 其最高级的成员被称为“建筑部”，这是风险投资家马克·安德森(Marc Andreessen)最近发表的一篇题为“现在是建造的时候”的戏。 其他渠道包括Unicorn Factory(用于讨论重要构想和潜在的创业计划)以及Hell Chat(用于发布笑话)。 成员还为Minecraft，模因，时尚，游戏，加密和YouTube等不同兴趣建立了空间。
Salinas said the group is seeking to recruit women and people from marginalized backgrounds who haven’t always been recognized by the Silicon Valley elite. “We’re looking for outsiders because they need this the most,” she said.
萨利纳斯(Salinas)表示，该组织正在寻求招募边缘化背景的妇女和人，这些人和人并不总是受到硅谷精英的认可。 她说：“我们正在寻找局外人，因为他们最需要这个。”
Brianne Kimmel, 32, the founder of Worklife VC and a member of the server, said she wasn’t surprised to see Gen Zers banding together to contend with an industry that they feel has misunderstood them.
32岁的布莱恩·金梅尔(Brianne Kimmel)是Worklife VC的创始人，并且是服务器的成员。她说，看到Z Z Gen齐心协力与他们认为误解了他们的行业抗衡，她并不感到惊讶。
“There’s an eagerness from VCs to claim they understand Gen Z, but I’ve not been impressed with any VC’s ability to listen or take Gen Z seriously,” Kimmel said. Their approach, she said, is “more about tracking macro trends and how Gen Z are consuming or creating media, and less about understanding why they’re actually creating what they’re creating.”
Kimmel说：“风险投资家渴望表达他们对Z代的理解，但是我对任何风险投资家认真聆听或认真对待Z代的能力并没有留下深刻的印象。” 她说，他们的方法“更多地是在追踪宏观趋势以及Z代人如何消费或创造媒体，而不是在理解他们为何真正创造自己所创造的东西。”
But building a new system means eschewing the tech establishment; some of the group’s leaders still hero-worship many of the industry’s powerful and divisive leaders, such as Elon Musk and Andreessen, a fact that some members take issue with.
但是建立新系统意味着避免建立技术机构。 该小组的一些领导人仍对英雄崇拜表示敬意，该行业的许多强大而分裂的领导人，例如埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)和安德森(Andreessen)，这一事实遭到一些成员的反对。
Gen Z Mafia has faced criticism for myriad missteps, many of them misogynistic in nature. Early on, members could award each other a digital currency called “wives.” “We took it down immediately, as soon as we realized,” Salinas said. “The only currency we have now is emojis.”
Z一代黑手党因无数的失误而受到批评，其中许多失误本质上是女性。 早期，成员可以互相奖励称为“妻子”的数字货币。 萨利纳斯说：“我们一意识到，便立即将其撤下。” “我们现在拥有的唯一货币是表情符号。”
“We’re looking for outsiders because they need this the most,” Ms. Salinas said. Photo: Jason Henry for The New York Times Salinas女士说：“我们正在寻找局外人，因为他们最需要此人。” 照片：《纽约时报》的杰森·亨利(Jason Henry)The group hosted a hackathon in August that many members saw as exclusionary of women. In response, the group designated six female judges and three male judges from underrepresented groups. Some members said that was not enough. Later in the month, a “purity test” application built within the group drew ire on Twitter. (The app was based on an old college survey meant to assess the participants’ supposed degree of innocence, especially in relationship to sex.)
该组织在八月份举办了一次黑客马拉松，许多成员认为这是对女性的排斥。 作为回应，该小组从人数不足的小组中任命了六名女法官和三名男法官。 一些成员说这还不够。 本月晚些时候，该小组内部构建的“纯度测试”应用程序在Twitter上引起了人们的关注。 (该应用程序基于一项古老的大学调查，旨在评估参与者的纯真程度，尤其是与性关系方面的纯正程度。)
Fiona Carty, 22, a designer in San Francisco and early member of Gen Z Mafia, said she was disappointed by sexist behavior and statements made by Sridharan on Twitter and elsewhere.
22岁的菲奥娜·卡蒂(Fiona Carty)是旧金山的设计师，也是Gen Z黑手党的早期成员。她对性别歧视行为以及Sridharan在Twitter和其他地方的言论感到失望。
“I’ve tried to give him a lot of empathy,” she said. “There’s things he’ll say that are not politically correct and inclusive.”
她说：“我试图给予他很多同情心。” “他会说一些在政治上不正确和包容的东西。”
Sridharan said: “I think we’re all learning and growing every day. I’m doing my best to try to become the best person I can be.”
Sridharan说：“我认为我们每天都在学习和成长。 我正在竭尽全力去努力成为最好的人。”
“We have a zero-tolerance policy toward noninclusive behavior,” Salinas said. “Anyone, including the founders, who doesn’t comply with that will be banned from the community.”
萨利纳斯说：“我们对非包容性行为实行零容忍政策。” “任何人，包括创始人在内，如果不遵守这一规定，将被禁止进入社区。”
Gen Z Mafia is part of a larger movement of young people looking to challenge the tech establishment. In June, a group called Eye Mouth Eye was responsible for a stunt product that leveraged exclusivity and hype culture around invite-only apps to get wealthy VCs to donate money to Black Lives Matter.
Z一代黑手党是希望挑战科技企业的年轻人群体的一部分。 6月，一个名为Eye Mouth Eye的小组负责一项特技产品，该产品利用了仅限邀请应用程序的排他性和炒作文化，以吸引有钱的VC向Black Lives Matter捐款。
“With Eye Mouth Eye, our core beliefs are we don’t do things for profit, we don’t try to grift off things and we put our energy toward projects for the greater good,” Carty said. “We’re not trying to take VC funding; we’re trying to use our skills to help people. I think Gen Z Mafia does do that to some degree. But Gen Z Mafia, they do worship the establishment.”
Carty说：“有了Eye Mouth Eye，我们的核心信念就是我们不为牟利而做事，我们不试图浪费时间，我们将精力投入更大的项目中来。” “我们并非试图获得风投资金； 我们正在尝试利用我们的技能来帮助人们。 我认为Z黑手党将在某种程度上做到这一点。 但是Z族黑手党确实崇拜这个机构。”
In the coming months, the group’s members plan to form a syndicate or angel fund to invest in community members’ projects. (Sridharan said the group hoped to raise money from tech investors and TikTok stars.) They view the server as an incubator for ideas and hope to see companies formed as a result of those discussions.
在接下来的几个月中，该小组的成员计划成立一个联合组织或天使基金，以投资社区成员的项目。 (Sridharan表示，该组织希望从技术投资者和TikTok明星那里筹集资金。)他们将服务器视为思想的孵化器，并希望看到这些讨论形成的公司。
“I can’t exactly explain why, but there’s some sort of energy that I see within Gen Z,” Salinas said. “I want other young people to know they’re not alone in wanting to build a lot of things and having these visions and dreams and wanting to change the world.”
萨利纳斯说：“我无法确切解释为什么，但是我在Z代中看到了某种能量。” “我希望其他年轻人知道他们并不孤单，他们想要建造很多东西，拥有这些愿景和梦想，并希望改变世界。”
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