NEL MINDSET 16: FACEBOOK FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS – HARVARD COMMENCEMENT 2017 (1)

SUB

Dr. Mark Zuckerberg

I love this place. Thank you all for coming out in the rain, the pouring rain. We’re gonna make this worth it for you president Faust Board of overseers faculty, friends, alumni, proud parents, members of the ad board and graduate of the greatest university in the world.

I am honored to be here with you today because let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech today it’ll be the first time I actually finished something here at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations.

Now I’m an unlikely speaker today, not just because I dropped out but because we’re technically in the same generation, we walk this yard less than a decade apart, we studied the same ideas and slept through the same act 10 lectures, we may have taken different roads to get here, especially if you came all the way from the quad but today I want to share what I’ve learned about our generation and the world we’re all building together.

But first this is the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories. How many of you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you got that email telling you you got into Harvard?

[Applause]

I was playing I was playing the video games civilization and I ran downstairs and got my dad and for some reason his first reaction was to video me opening the email that could have been a really really sad video but I swear getting into Harvard is the thing my parents are most proud of me for.

My mom is nodding, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Look guys it’s tough to beat this you’ll see when you get out there. How many of you remember your first lecture here at Harvard? mine was computer science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis Harry

[Applause]

I was running late for class so I thrown a t-shirt and I didn’t realize until afterwards as I put it on inside out and backwards my tag was sticking out the front. I couldn’t figure out why no one in class would talk to me, except for this one guy K X Gen he just went with it we started doing our problem sets together and now he runs a big part of Facebook and that class of 2017 is why you should be nice to people

[Laughter]

But my best memory from Harvard is meeting Priscilla. I had just launched this prank website Facemash and the ad board wanted to see me. Everyone thought I was going to get kicked out, my parents drove up here to help me pack my stuff, my friends threw me a going-away party who does that as luck would have it Priscilla was at that party with her friends and we met in line for the bathroom in the pfoho bell tower and then what must be one of the all-time most romantic lines, I turned her and said “I’m getting kicked out in three days so we need to go on to date quickly”.

Actually any of you graduating today can use that line.

I’m getting kicked out today we need to go on a date fast. I didn’t end up getting kicked out. I did that to myself, Priscilla and I started dating and you know that movie made it seem like Facemash was so important to starting Facebook it wasn’t but without Facemash, I never would have met Priscilla and Priscilla is the most important person in my life, so you could still say it was the most important thing I built in my time here

[Applause]

We have all started lifelong friendships here and some of us even families. That’s why I’m so grateful to this place. Thanks Harvard.

Today I want to talk about purpose but I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose we’re Millennials, we try to do that instinctively. Instead I’m here to tell you that finding your purpose isn’t enough. The challenge for our generation is to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

One of my favorite stories is when JFK went to go visit the NASA Space Center and he saw janitor holding a broom and he asked him what he was doing and the janitor replied Mr. President “I’m helping put a man on the moon’’.

Purpose is that feeling that you are a part of something bigger than yourself, that you are needed and that you have something better ahead to work for.

Purpose is what creates true happiness and you are graduating at a time when this is especially important. When our parents graduated that sense of purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community. But today technology and automation are eliminating many jobs. Membership and a lot of communities has been declining and a lot of people are feeling disconnected and depressed and are trying to fill a void in their lives.

As I’ve traveled around I’ve sat with children and juvenile detention and opioid addicts who told me that maybe their lives would have turned out differently if they just had something to do. And after school program or somewhere to go. I’ve met factory workers who know their old jobs aren’t coming back and we’re just trying to find their path ahead for our society to keep moving forward. We have a generational challenge, to not only create new jobs but create a renewed sense of purpose.

I remember thatnight I launched Facebook from that little dorm in Kirkland house. I went to Doakes with my friend KS. And I remember telling him clearly that I was excited to help connect the Harvard community but one day someone would connect the whole world.

The thing is it never even occurred to me that that someone might be us. We were just college kids we didn’t know anything about that. There were all these great big technology companies with all these resources and I just assumed one of them would do it. But this idea was so clear to us that all people want to connect so we just kept working on it, day after day after day, and I know that a lot of you are going to have your own stories just like this. A change in the world that seems so clear that you are sure someone else is going to do it. But they’re not you will but it’s not enough to have that purpose yourself, you also have to create a sense of purpose for others.

And I found that out the hard way you see my hope was never to build a company. I wanted to have an impact. And as all these people started joining us. I just assumed that that’s what they wanted to do too, so I never took the time to explain what it was that I hoped we’d build.

A couple years in, some big companies wanted to buy us, I didn’t want to sell. I wanted to see if we could connect more people and we were building the first version of newsfeed at the time and I thought if we could just launch this it could change how we all learn about the world. Nearly everyone else wanted to sell without a sense of higher purpose this was their startup dream come true, and it tore our company apart.

After one particularly tense argument, one of my closest advisors told me if I didn’t agree to sell the company right now. I would regret that decision for the rest of my life. Relationships were so afraid that within a year or so every single person on our management team was gone. That was my hardest time meeting Facebook. I believed in what we were doing but I felt alone and worse. It was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong an imposter a 22 year old kid who had no idea how things actually worked. Now years later, I understand it that is how things work when there’s no sense of higher purpose, so it’s up to all of us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.

DAY 1

But first, this is the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories. How many of you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you got that email telling you you got into Harvard?

[Applause]

Do the popcorn game (pronunciation)
What was Mark Zuckerberg doing when he got an email telling he got into Havard?
What’s about you? What were you doing when you got into university?

[Applause]

[Laughter]

What’s happening in the first lecture of Mark Zuckerberg?
Do you remember the first lecture in your university? How do you feel at that time?

Homework:

Listen to the video at least 5 times
Practice pronunciation and prepare part 2

DAY 2

Do the popcorn game (pronunciation)
What’s the best memory from Havard of Mark Zuckerberg?
Why did Mark get kicked out?

Actually any of you graduating today can use that line.

[Applause]

When did Mark meet Priscilla? Where? What did he say to her?

We have all started lifelong friendships here and some of us even families. That’s why I’m so grateful to this place. Thanks Harvard.

Purpose is that feeling that you are a part of something bigger than yourself, that you are needed and that you have something better ahead to work for.

What did he want to talk in his speech?
What’s your purpose? What do you do, right now to keep your dream alive?

Homework:

Listen to the video at least 5 times
Practice pronunciation and prepare part 3

DAY 3

I remember that night I launched Facebook from that little dorm in Kirkland house. I went to Doakes with my friend KS. And I remember telling him clearly that I was excited to help connect the Harvard community but one day someone would connect the whole world.

Do the popcorn game (pronunciation)
How is the technology and automation impact to our life?
What was Facebook born? At first, what did he want to do?

Now years later, I understand it that is how things work when there’s no sense of higher purpose, so it’s up to all of us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.

What’s happen to Facebook a couple of years later? What’s the thing that keeps Mark stay with his company?
“Sense of high purpose” How do you understand this?

Homework:

Listen to the video at least 5 times
Practice pronunciation and prepare next lesson

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