[ti:People Work, Make Connections at Silicon Valley Café] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]Coupa Café is a restaurant where, over the years, Apple's Steve Jobs, [00:06.64]Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sergey Brin have been seen. [00:14.44]The cafe is in Palo Alto, California. [00:19.20]Palo Alto is at the heart of Silicon Valley, [00:24.12]home to some of the world's largest technology companies [00:28.64]and some of the smallest startups. [00:32.48]Coupa Café is where many people buy coffee and make business plans. [00:39.56]The owner of the café is Jean Paul Coupal. [00:44.52]He started the café with his mother and his sister in 2004. [00:51.68]The Coupa logo was seen on a cup in the 2010 movie The Social Network, [00:59.00]about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. [01:03.88]The café serves Venezuelan coffee and a few Venezuelan dishes. [01:11.28]Because the café is in Silicon Valley, [01:14.68]it has tried some of the latest inventions in technology. [01:20.08]In 2013, Coupa Café started accepting Bitcoins, [01:25.94]a digital payment system outside of traditional banks. [01:31.08]"We want to be part of the technology," Coupal said. [01:36.28]The café is also a place for people to hold meetings. [01:41.04]"I remember seeing Mark Zuckerberg sitting here and having meetings," [01:47.84]said Eric Sokol, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University. [01:57.60]Sokol said he had many professional opportunities come about at Coupa Café. [02:04.92]Sometimes other people would overhear a conversation he was having. [02:10.96]Currently he is an advisor to a health care related startup [02:16.36]and a new investment fund. [02:19.24]Both opportunities came when he was at the café. [02:24.84]Because the café lets customers stay all day, [02:29.08]many people do work there. [02:32.28]"A lot of the startups in the area come [02:35.12]and they like to work at Coupa, coding all day," Coupal said. [02:42.28]"We've seen a lot of products that got developed at Coupa." [02:47.28]The café also attracts students from colleges nearby like Stanford University. [02:57.60]Katie Kennedy is a student from a local community college. [03:03.12]She said she knew that opportunities could come from chance encounters at the café. [03:10.68]"I am currently teaching myself JavaScript here at Coupa right now. [03:15.08]If someone happened to look over my shoulder and saw what I was doing, [03:18.80]I would definitely not say no to any help." [03:22.44]Currently there are eight Coupa Cafés. [03:26.88]All were hand painted by Coupal's mother and sister. [03:32.02]"The food's good, the coffee's good," Sokol said. [03:37.00]"It just has the right atmosphere, the right mix of people. [03:42.08]It's got an energy about it, I guess." [03:46.28]I'm Mario Ritter. [03:48.00]And I'm Olivia Liu. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM