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Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Commencement Address
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Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Commencement Address

Harvard Commencement 2017


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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Visionary
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

Self-made billionaire and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is arguably the world’s most famous college dropout. Harvard University, America’s most prestigious institute of higher learning and Zuckerberg’s alma mater, invited him to return to the campus he once shunned to deliver a commencement address to the graduating class of 2017. Zuckerberg oozes self-confidence as he attempts to inspire his audience with unabashed idealism. getAbstract recommends his advice to neophytes setting out on their career paths and to anyone seeking a higher purpose.

Take-Aways

  • To solve the world’s challenges, all people must share a higher sense of purpose.
  • Alas, as technology abolishes jobs and community membership wanes, morale is low. But millennials can create a renewed sense of purpose in three ways.
  • First, identify generation-defining problems, such as climate change. Solutions to such issues unfold incrementally, but if you have a vision for a better world, broadcast it and rally others around the cause.

About the Speaker

Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook’s co-founder, CEO and chairman.


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    Y. P. 7 years ago
    Great speech!
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    V. M. 7 years ago
    Mark Zuckerberg, this is an obvious example of the fact that every person deserves and achieves only what he personally wants. Success in my opinion to Mark came only because he was purposefully going to his goal and found a free niche in the market offered a new competitive product which was not at that time