Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg has returned to the university to give graduates a commencement address.
His address was filled with calls for building a connected world “where every single person has a sense of purpose.”
In a wide-ranging speech that touched on climate change, charity, volunteering, education and universal basic income, the billionaire CEO of Facebook championed globalism and called fighting authoritarianism and nationalism “the struggle of our time”.
“I am honoured to be here with you today because, let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could,” Zuckerberg joked with the crowd.
“If I get through this speech today, it would be the first time I actually finished something here at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations!”
Zuckerberg then went on to add: “This is my story, too: a student in a dorm room, connecting one community at a time, and keeping at it until one day we connect the whole world. Change starts local. Even global changes start small – with people like us. In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more, whether we achieve our greatest opportunities comes down to this: your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.”
