Cancel Me If You Can(书名，意为“有种就封杀我”). By Dave Portnoy. Gallery Books; 320 pages; $32.99
《有种就封杀我》，作者戴夫·波特诺伊。Gallery Books出版；320页；售价32.99美元。
IT IS A well-trodden path(老路，常见做法): a young man, frustrated with life as an office drone(办公室螺丝钉，单调工作的职员), decides he wants to be his own boss. When he was in his mid-20s, Dave Portnoy came up with(想出，提出) three business ideas: selling used furniture, connecting ambitious high-school athletes with college coaches and setting up a newspaper focused on gambling and sport. He settled on(选定，决定) the third option and the first issue of Barstool Sports hit the streets of Boston, where Mr Portnoy lived, in August 2003. Its motto(座右铭，口号) was: “By the common man, for the common man”.
这是一条老路：一个年轻人厌倦了办公室螺丝钉的生活，决定自己做老板。二十多岁时，戴夫·波特诺伊想到了三个商业点子：卖二手家具、为有抱负的高中运动员联系大学教练、创办一份专注于赌博和体育的报纸。他选择了第三个，2003年8月，第一期《Barstool Sports》在波特诺伊居住的波士顿街头问世。它的口号是：“来自普通人，为了普通人”。
It has made its founder uncommonly(异常地，非常) wealthy. In 2020 Mr Portnoy made $178m when his investors sold Barstool Sports at a valuation(估值，估价) of $650m. (By then it was no longer a newspaper but a digital media brand with podcasts and merchandise.) He has bought the most expensive home ever sold in his home state of Massachusetts: a compound(庄园，大院) on Nantucket, for $42m. The cover of his boastfully(自夸地，炫耀地) titled book shows him in sunglasses, smoking a cigar in his swimming pool. How did he achieve the American frat boy’s dream(兄弟会男孩的梦想)?
这让其创始人变得异常富有。2020年，波特诺伊的投资者以6.5亿美元的估值出售Barstool Sports，他从中赚得1.78亿美元。（那时它已不再是报纸，而是一个拥有播客和周边商品的数字媒体品牌。）他在家乡马萨诸塞州买下了有史以来最贵的住宅：楠塔基特岛上一处价值4200万美元的庄园。他那本自吹自擂的书封面上，他戴着墨镜，在游泳池里抽着雪茄。他是如何实现美国兄弟会男孩的梦想的？