他永远地走了，他创办的公司还在

    帕瑞克越来越多地发现自己一个人在战斗。“最初很艰难，”他说。“我们过去经常讨论他和我怎样形成一种有益的张力。知道他不在身边，我不得不自我约束。他知道，这对我有一定的挑战性。他和我谈论这个问题，还尝试着传递他的乐观情绪，几乎感染了我。”

    在帕瑞克的引领下，Magoosh公司的现金流在2012年5月由负转正，他自己还额外募集了25万美元。“那一刻，我开始信心满满地相信，我们能够做一项特别的事业，”帕瑞克说。到了这时，两位合作伙伴只是偶尔进行一次电子邮件交流。

    7月份，李发布了一张照片。照片中，他躺在医院的病床上，用枕头支撑起身体。照片中的李裸露着胸膛，绿色的病号服被拉低至腰部，鼻子上插了一个氧气管，双腿被在白色绷带包裹着。大约一个月后，在8月8日那天，李在加州大学旧金山分校医学中心做完了第五次化疗，这次化疗持续了8个小时。他每天服用20片药丸，目的只是是为了抗击化疗的副作用。

    随后就再也没有任何消息。李陷入了沉默。此时距离他的确诊日期不到8个月。但在Facebook页面上看不到他的留言，也没有收到电子邮件。“我当时寻思着，好一阵子没有他的消息了，”帕瑞克说。“我开始变得紧张起来，但不敢多想。我还是定期给他发送一封电子邮件说，‘嘿，我想你。希望一切正在好转。’他不需要作出回应，因为我不想让他觉得自己背负着什么义务。”

    圣诞假期过去了。1月30日，与Magoosh团队共进晚餐时，帕瑞克收到李发来的一封电子邮件，他说他即将出院，病情看起来正在好转。2月21日，为了庆祝李35岁的生日，Magoosh团队拍摄了一段祝福视频，还发到了Facebook上。但当时李已经病得很重，甚至没有留言致谢。

    帕瑞克与李的最后一次谈话生在他于2013年3月4日去世前两周左右。李在电话上聊了整整一个小时。“他听起来思路清晰。他询问我整个团队的表现。这是一次非常好、非常积极的交谈。他告诉我两件事：他希望我持续专注于企业正确的层面，还希望我不要狭隘地思考问题。我当时万万没有预料到两周后发生的事情。”

    李去世后，帕瑞克与李的未婚妻温迪•林，以及普尔-莫埃齐一起创建了汉苏•李奖学金，以纪念他们的朋友。这项奖学金为加州大学伯克利分校哈斯商学院的MBA学生提供助学金和指导，帮助他们全职创业，而不是寻找实习机会——就像李和帕瑞克在2009年夏天所做的选择一样。

    帕瑞克领导下的Magoosh公司则在继续茁壮成长。Magoosh公司从来没有见过李的员工现已超过见过他的员工。这家公司依然在产生正现金流，最初的5人团队已扩充为13位全职员工，GRE备考服务已取得初步进展，GMAT备考产品的影响力与日俱增。这家备考平台目前拥有超过200段授课视频，1,000多段解疑视频（与考试相关的每个问题都有一个对应的视频）。Magoosh的客户来自150多个国家，70%的用户是美国本土考生。

    李留给公司的是一段刻骨铭心的回忆，以及一个借助亲密朋友转化为现实的愿景。“我每天都会想念他，”帕瑞克说。“我经常回想他对我说过的那些话。我仿佛还能看到他的一笑一颦，有时似乎还能听到他的声音。他说过的一些话已经深深留在我的脑海里，我把它作为驱使我不断推动企业发展的不竭动力。我知道他希望我不断前行。除此以外，我别无选择。但愿他从天国俯视人间时，会说上一句，‘这就是我想要的。’”（财富中文网）

    译者：叶寒

    Increasingly, Parikh found himself alone. "At first, it was hard," he says. "We always talked about how he and I had a good tension. Knowing that he wasn't around, I had to keep myself in check. He knew it was a bit of a challenge for me. He would talk to me about it and tried to share his optimism and almost infect me with his optimism."

    Parikh led Magoosh to a cash flow positive state by May 2012 and raised $250,000 of additional funding on his own. "At that point, I started to gain a lot of confidence that we can do something special here," says Parikh, whose only contact with his partner became an occasional email exchange.

    In July, Lee posted a photo of himself propped up with pillows in a hospital bed. He was bare-chested in the photo, his green hospital gown pulled down to his waist. There was an oxygen tube in his nose and his legs were wrapped in white bandages. A month later, on August 8, Lee had completed his fifth chemo cycle, an eight-hour procedure at UCSF. He was taking 20 pills a day just to combat the side effects of the chemo.

    Then, nothing. Lee fell silent. It was less than eight months since his diagnosis. But there were no more Facebook posts, no more emails. "I remember thinking I hadn't heard from him in awhile," says Parikh. "I started getting nervous but didn't want to. I would email periodically and say, 'Hey, I'm thinking of you. Hope things are getting better.' He didn't need to respond because I didn't want him to feel any obligation."

    The Christmas holiday passed, and on Jan. 30, while at a dinner with the Magoosh team, Parikh received an email from Lee saying he was returning from the hospital and that things were looking better. The Magoosh team filmed a celebratory video for Lee's 35th birthday on February 21 and posted it on Facebook. But Lee fell too ill to ever acknowledge it.

    In Parikh's last conversation with Lee, two weeks before he died on March 4, 2013, Parikh was on the phone for a full hour. "He sounded very coherent. He asked me how the team was doing. It was a very good, positive conservation. He told me two things: He wanted to make sure I would stay focused on the right aspects of the business, and he wanted me not to think too small. I never expected anything to happen over the next two weeks."

    After Lee's death, Parikh would work closely with Lee's fiancée, Wendy Lim, and Pour-Moezzi, to create the Hansoo Lee fellowship to honor their friend. The fellowship provides a stipend and mentorship to help Berkeley-Haas MBA students pursue entrepreneurial ventures full-time instead of pursuing an internship -- just as Lee and Parikh did during the summer of 2009.

    Magoosh continues to thrive under Parikh. There are now more employees at Magoosh who never met Lee than those who did. The company remains cash flow positive and has grown from a team of five to 13 full-time staffers, and it is making a big dent in the GRE space and starting to have a bigger impact in the GMAT prep world. The platform has more than 200 lesson videos and over 1,000 explanation videos, one for every test question. Magoosh boasts customers from more than 150 countries, with 70% of users based in the U.S.

    What remains of Lee are the memories and a legacy carried out by a friend. "I miss him every day," says Parikh. "I think about what he would say to me personally. I can see his mannerisms and sometimes hear his voice. There are some things he said that stick with me and I use them as fuel to just continue growing the business. I knew that what he wanted for me was to push forward. It didn't feel like there was another option, really. Hopefully, he is looking down and saying, 'This is what I wanted.'"