Many companies are founded on inspiration or imitation. But Mark Getty, a grandson of the billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, and Jonathan Klein, an investment banker who had been Getty's boss, started theirs with a checklist. Tired of crafting deals for others, the pair came up with strict criteria for their own dream business. It had to be global, operating in a fragmented industry ready for consolidation, and on the cusp of change. And the less risk the better. "We didn't want to fix something that was broken," says Klein.
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机译：许多公司都是建立在灵感或模仿之上的。但是，亿万富翁石油商保罗·盖蒂（J. Paul Getty）的孙子马克·盖蒂（Mark Getty）和曾是盖蒂（Getty）老板的投资银行家乔纳森·克莱因（Jonathan Klein）从清单开始。两人厌倦了为他人制定交易，为自己的梦想业务提出了严格的标准。它必须是全球性的，在一个零散的行业中运作，为整合做好准备，并处于变革的风口浪尖上。风险越小越好。克莱因说：“我们不想修复损坏的东西。”
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