第一篇:扎克伯格的创业经历
扎克伯格的创业经历
扎克伯格的创始
一:基本情况
扎克伯格生于1984年,在美国纽约州长大。作为牙医和心理医 生的儿子,扎克伯格从小就受到了良好的教育,从小就是个电脑神童。10岁的时候他得到了第一台电脑,从此将大把的时间都花在了上面。高中时,他为学校设计了一款MP3播放机。之后,很多业内公司都向他抛来了橄榄枝,包括微软公司。但是扎克伯格却拒绝了年薪95万美元的工作机会,而选择去哈佛大学上学。在哈佛,主修心理学的他仍然痴迷电脑。在上哈佛的第二年,他侵入了学校的一个数据库,将学生的照片拿来用在自己设计的网站上,供同班同学评估彼此的吸引力。
黑客事件之后不久,扎克伯格 就和两位室友一起,用了一星期时间写网站程序,建立了一个为哈佛同学提供互相联系平台的网站,命名为 facebook 在2004年2月推出,即横扫整个哈佛校园。2004年年底,Facebook的注册人数已突破一百万 扎克伯格干脆从哈佛退学,全职营运网站。
二:扎克伯格创业经历
·Facebook(脸谱网)创始人,被人们冠以“盖茨第二”的美誉。哈佛大学计算机和心理学专业辍学生。
·Facebook是美国第二大社交网站,微软2.4亿美元赢得Facebook1.6%股份收购权。
facebook网站发展
facebook在2010年的注册用户已经超过了4亿,同时在线人数也超过了1亿,并且首次在2009年实现了正常运营,即不用再靠风险投资过日子,他扎克伯格的创业经历
通过网站的广告收入已经能够维持自己的开销。并且在这个时候股票在私股的交易中显示这家网络公司的市值已经有150亿美元。而扎克伯格明确表示最终肯定会上市,但是现在并不急于进行上市,在2010年福布斯公布的资产排行榜里,扎克以40亿美元成为了最年轻的入榜人。
从零到百亿Facebook Facebook发源于哈佛大学,是目前社会化网络和web2.0的风向标。这个网站目前全球排名第8位,微软公司刚刚宣布投资2.4亿美元以发展其广告事业。估值超过150亿美元。而Facebook开放平台的推出,更是让互联网业内认为它是最有可能和Google比肩的公司。Facebook创建于2004年2月。这样的高速增长和短短四年多取得的成就,成为当今互联网发展的一个奇迹。因为创建了社区网站Facebook,23岁的马克·扎克伯格 据说身家已超过30亿美元。近日,这位和微软总裁比尔·盖茨一样为创业而从哈佛退学的年轻CEO接受了美国CBS资深电视新闻女记者 的采访,谈了他自己,也谈了被认为将成为第二个Google的他的网站。
北京时间11月3日消息,如果把Facebook看成一个国家,那么它的人口数足以登上“世界第三大国”。
二十六岁、统领这个虚拟大国的扎克伯格成了全球风云人物:他是最年轻的亿万富豪,身价高达六十九亿美元;是英国首相卡麦隆一上任就要用视讯对谈,请益“管理众人之道”的重要企业领袖;他也是最近几本新书、一部新电影锁定的主角。
不少人都曾怀疑,这个一头棕色卷发、稚气未脱、上台讲话常常紧张到满身大汗的小伙子,为何能够创业成功?
“扎克伯格的视野非常、非常大,”《Fortune》资深科技记者寇派崔克观察,他很清楚Facebook未来要怎么发展,而且他虽然年轻,却有本事找到一群能力优异,又跟他志同道合的高手组成管理团队。扎克伯格的创业经历
人红是非多,十一月即将在台上映的新片《社交网战》,把扎克伯格描写成待人苛刻、工于心计的创业天才。“除了说这部电影是虚构的,我真的不晓得该怎么说,”他苦笑。
今年七月,扎克伯格与刚出版新书《Facebook效应》的寇派崔克共同参加加州计算机历史博物馆举行的一场对谈,以下是他的谈话整理:为了纪念Facebook用户突破五亿,我们搜集了过去这几年来,大家使用Facebook的各种真实体验。例如,丹麦的前总理利用Facebook,找到了一群慢跑的同好;还有一位康乃狄克州的市长在Facebook上发现,有个选民病急,需要换肾,他就捐出自己的一颗肾给对方。
我们有很多这种精彩感人的故事,但也有很多的故事很平凡,他们只想跟关心的好友家人保持联系,而Facebook就成了最方便的工具。
我们打造的是一个连结亲朋好友的平台。从前的人利用面对面的方式相互沟通,后来开始打电话连络,但始终缺乏一种理想的系统,让大家可以跟自己的好友、跟那些你很关心或很有兴趣的人,随时保持联系。
人类走向分享、开放、透明
Facebook让大家做到了这些,现在每个人都可以在Facebook上分享自己的讯息与意见。我一直认为,人们会愈来愈愿意与他人互动分享,整个世界也会走向开放与透明,这将是未来十到十五年最重大的社会趋势之一,我们希望能推动社会,往这个方向发展。
从公司创立开始,我们的团队对于Facebook的经营理念,都有很强的认同感与目的感,我们相信,只要让人们拥有分享、连结的工具,就会打开无限的可能;只要把平台做好,就会有其它人利用它来开发各种社交应用,创造出各种新体验。这种明确的目的感,给了我们前进的力量。扎克伯格的创业经历
网络世界不断快速演变,几乎每年都有新的东西出现。Google出现时,我还在念中学,搜寻引擎让你寻找任何想要的信息;Napster让你找到任何想听的歌;后来又有维基百科,让你找到任何想要的参考数据。
网络有各式各样的服务与应用。不过我认为,人最感兴趣的,还是其它人发生了什么事,这也正是Facebook为什么那么受欢迎的原因。
外界常把MySpace拿来跟我们做比较,问说:很多人喜欢MySpace是因为它又酷又好玩,所以要是有一天,Facebook不再那么酷的时候,怎么办?
Facebook不必酷,但要有用
我们的目标不是要做很酷的网站,而是要做有用的平台。酷眩的东西终究会褪流行,有用的东西却不会,它可能会延续很长一段时间。这就是我说的,Facebook的公用事业特质,我强调的就是要有用。
再过几年,将会有更多人使用社交网络,我们必须确保,Facebook是最好的一个。
我们有一千五百个员工,算是个小公司,目前只有四百个工程师在写程序,地球上没有任何一个组织只用四百人来帮五亿个用户写程序。我们还在成长,还有太多的创新要做,所以我总是担心,我们够不够快?我们最大的挑战,就是如何发展得更快。
很多人问我,Facebook发展到五亿用户的规模,我的角色是不是也要有所改变,不只做产品,也要向外沟通?
我还在学习如何当CEO.我十九岁创立Facebook时,什么也不懂,后来搬到加州,运气好遇到了一些人帮忙。但是一路上,该犯的错,我们差不多也都犯过。如果未来的五年还会像过去五年这么刺激的话,我们一定会遇上许多困难的决策,我必须花很多时间好好思考,如何做出正确的决定。
我认为,想要成功创业,必须掌握两大关键。扎克伯格的创业经历
第一是要有非常清楚的方向,知道自己想做什么,因为会有太多事情让你分心,如果没有明确的目的感,你就可能会走偏。我曾经看过苹果乔布斯的一段访问,他对想要创业的人提出的建议,就是你一定要真的热爱你所做的事。
第二,必须建立一个好团队。我花了非常多的时间在这上面,一定要找到能够处理横向扩张架构、最厉害的工程部主管;能够跟每个人沟通产品计划、最优秀的产品部主管;以及最顶尖的业务主管。这个团队的任何一个人都有本事管理整个公司,就算我哪天不见了,他们任何一个人都能搞定全公司的事。
外界形容我是亿万富翁,说我的公司价值二七○亿美元,谁在乎这些?以后我只想住在公司附近,天天走路上下班。我们最近刚搬到新的办公室,加州风景这么美,我要求助理帮我在公司附近找新公寓,她找了好几个礼拜,后来在我出差时打给我说,“我找到了一栋房子,我要租了!”我根本还没看过那地方,但我不在乎,反正我只想要走路回家睡觉,再走路到公司上班。这就是我。
我真的希望,任何人在报导或介绍Facebook的故事时,至少一定要把真相弄清楚。例如,我就很感谢你投入这么多时间,访问了业界几十位知情人士,即使我不见得同意你书里的所有内容,但我接受这是认真的新闻报导。
然而除了你的书,另一本描写我们的书却是由一个小说家执笔,然后拍成电影。当初我没有接受他的采访,是因为我们从一开始就知道,他要写的是虚构的故事。
《社交网战》是虚构的电影
他告诉我们,“我最想做的,是写出一个最有趣的故事。”所以我不想参与其中,免得明明不是真的,却被说成是来自“我们跟扎克伯格的访谈”。那部电影就是根据这本书,除了说它是虚构的,我真的不晓得该怎么说。
你知道吗?电影里饰演我的那个男主角,他的表哥就在我们公司,而且是Facebook动态消息的首席设计师,我每个礼拜都要跟他碰面开会,讨论新设计。他很棒,是真的有两把刷子。扎克伯格的创业经历
我大概不会去看这部电影,他们说我是为了追女生才创立Facebook,但事 实上,我从成立Facebook之前,直到今天,都跟同一个女孩交往.三:成功经验
志向
志向,或者说对个人成就的目标是一个人成功的基础。人们希望获得成功、认同感、尊重、金钱、权力和名誉。如果你相信电影《社交网络》中所说的,那么扎克伯格开发Facebook的初衷是为了女孩。不过,成功总是相对的。随着年龄的增长,扎克伯格对成功的定义也在变化。
志向并不需要总是挂在嘴边。当文克莱沃斯兄弟雇佣扎克伯格为他们开发社交网站时,扎克伯格从未说过想要开发自己的网站。当文克莱沃斯兄弟知道扎克伯格的志向后,已经为时太晚。
洞察力
设计的问题使得MySpace用户可以对个人页面进行随意订制。不过这带来了一个混乱的环境,而用户更喜爱Facebook清爽的界面。
Facebook并没有想出任何“革命性”的理念。如果说Facebook有何成就,那么就是扎克伯格等人发现了所有人的需求,而不仅是部分用户的需求。在Facebook获得发展之前,人们在网上寻找他人很困难。然而,这样的功能已经很自然地存在。这样的发展是一种“进化”。需要指出的是,Facebook的大部分成功并不是全新的,而是在现有技术基础上的扩展和改进。
一些批评者认为,扎克伯格缺乏领袖魅力。实际上,领袖魅力是洞察力的一部分,这样的能力帮助你说服其他人接受你的看法。不过,领袖魅力本身并非成功的必备要素,而是一个加速器或催化剂。对扎克伯格而言,Facebook快速增长本身已成为他展现个人魅力的方式。扎克伯格的创业经历
执行力
如果去了解Facebook推出初期的功能,那么可以发现功能非常简单。在用户数增长的过程中,Facebook也在不断增加新功能。这就像是在3万英尺的高空更换飞机引擎而不出现问题。Beacon和对隐私设置的调整是Facebook的失误,但这样的失误并未影响Facebook的发展。
决心
美国前总统柯立芝曾说过:“世界上没有什么可以替代毅力。才华不能,许多不成功的人都不缺才华。天赋不能,没有获得回报的天才比比皆是。教育不能,世界上有着太多受过良好教育的弃儿。毅力和决心是无所不能的。‘努力前进’的口号已经解决并将继续解决人类面临的问题。”
1995年,史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)也表示:“我相信,区别成功创业者和不成功创业者的一半因素在于是否坚持不懈。”
在扎克伯格的经历中,决心、动力和毅力是最重要的因素。他抢在被文克莱沃斯兄弟知晓之前不知疲倦地编写代码,将Facebook推广至其他大学,应对了MySpace的竞争,解决了与文克莱沃斯兄弟之间的法律纠纷,并试图探索如何利用用户隐私。
运气
在体育界和商业界,运气是最好的朋友。扎克伯格见到西恩·帕克(Sean Parker)几乎完全是靠运气,而帕克为他引荐了皮特·希尔。而没有希尔的帮助和第一笔投资,扎克伯格可能现在已经不是CEO。不过运气同样来自努力。
时机
谷歌并非第一个搜索引擎服务,YouTube不是第一个视频分享网站,而Facebook毫无疑问也不是第一个社交网站。在Facebook之前,被人们了解的社交网站就包括Geocities、Tripod、Friendster、Tribe Networks和MySpace。扎克伯格的创业经历
扎克伯格很好地把握了时机。他拖延了文克莱沃斯兄弟的项目,在哈佛大学率先推出Facebook并推广至其他高校,在适当的时刻将公司迁往加州,拒绝了维亚康姆和雅虎的收购,并完成了与微软的合作交易。
外界将Facebook的IPO与谷歌IPO进行比较是可以理解的。不过,谷歌推动了互联网公司新一轮的发展,而Facebook在多家互联网公司上市后才申请IPO。而此前上市的互联网公司目前表现并不是很好。
谷歌的IPO使该公司成为互联网行业的领头羊,而Facebook未来也将成为个人和机构投资者眼中的首选股,并推动市盈率等比率的上升。
在这样的成功公式中,前4点因素是个人可以控制的,而后两点并不完全可控。尽管外界对扎克伯格毁誉参半,但在创业者群体中,扎克伯格是一个倍受尊敬的人物。正如迈克尔·乔丹(Michael Jordan)所说:“我一生中多次失败,这就是我。四:启示
成功不是偶然的,而是对有准备的而言的,成功需要条件,需要准备更需 胆识和勇气还有创业的条件,要有很大的社会因素,以及来自朋友和家人的帮忙。成功是机会的积累和经验的积累。成功对我们来说是来之不易的对我们来说是很大的挑战。1.敬业;
2.与所有同事分享利润,把他们视为合伙人。鼓励你的同事持有公司股份,将股权打折卖给他们,承诺退休后给予股票。
3.激励你的合伙人。设置高目标,鼓励竞争,奖励要丰厚。4.交流沟通。要与你的合伙人交流,信任他们。5.倾听公司中每一位员工的意见,广开言路; 6.感激你的同事为公司所做的每一件事。7.成功要大肆庆祝,失败则不必耿耿于怀; 8.超过顾客期望--要做得比顾客期望的更好; 9.比对手更好地控制费用;
10.逆流而上,另辟蹊径,藐视传统的观念。扎克伯格的创业经历
总之成功需要很大的努力和付出,我们要加油努力才能做一个成功的人,成功是来之不易的,所以我们要积累经验和机会。
第二篇:扎克伯格演讲
扎克伯格2017超燃演讲:
光有目标是不够的,你必须拥有心系他人的目标
喏像这样的,妻子在现场听得热泪盈眶
也许我们不可能像小扎这么成功,也不可能每个人都能创造那样的伟大。但燃而快乐的人生,对每个人而言,才是最重要的。
所以,这位34岁哈佛优秀学子的毕业演讲(全程传递的逻辑、思路,理念和想法,都非常高能而深刻),对你我都会有所启发,圆桌五星级鉴读!
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今天和你们待在一起我备感荣幸,因为说实话,你们完成了一个我永远无法办到的成就。等我做完这个演讲,这将是我第一次在哈佛大学完成的某件事。
✦站在这里演讲的我,曾是一名辍学生
我本不可能是站在这里发表演讲的人,不仅仅因为我是一名辍学生,还因为其实我们是同一代人。我作为学生走在这个校园里,也就是不过十年前的事情。我们学习过同样的知识,同样在EC10课堂上补觉。尽管我们通过不同的方式来到这里,尤其那些来自Quad园区的同学(The Quad以前哈佛女性学院是Radcliffe College的女生宿舍);但今天我想和你们分享的是,我对我们这代人的一些想法,和我们正在合力建设的这个世界。首先,过去几天令我想起很多美好的回忆。你们当中多少人还确切记得,当初收到哈佛的录取通知邮件时在做什么?当时我正在玩《文明》游戏,然后我跑下楼,找到我的父亲,不过他的反应很奇怪,居然开始拍摄我打开邮件的过程。那个视频可能看着挺难过吧。但我发誓,被哈佛录取,是最令我父母为我感到骄傲的事情。
你们还记得在哈佛上的第一节课吗?我上的是计算机121,Harry Lewis老师超级棒。当时我要迟到了,于是抓了件T恤就套在身上,结果直到下午才发现我把它前后里外都穿反了,商标都露在前胸。然后我还纳闷怎么没人理我,除了一个人——KX Jin,他没有在意这些。之后,我们开始组队解决难题,现在他负责Facebook很大一块业务。这说明什么?2017的毕业生们,这说明为什么你们应该对别人友善一些。
✦我在哈佛最美好的回忆,是遇见了我的妻子
但是我在哈佛最美好的回忆,是我遇见了Priscilla(扎克伯格妻子)。当时我刚上线一个恶作剧网站Facemash,然后管理委员会表示“要见我”,所有人都认为我要被赶走了。我爸妈来帮我打包行李;我朋友帮我搞了个告别派对。幸运的事情就在这里,Priscilla和她朋友一起,来到了这个Party。我们在Pfoho Belltower的卫生间外排队时遇见了,接下来发生了一件永生难忘的浪漫事件——我说:“我三天后就要被赶出学校了,所以我们需要尽快开始约会。”事实上,你们所有人都可以使用这个套路。我没有被开除——我想办法留下来了。Priscilla开始和我约会。你们知道,那部电影(《社交网络》)说的Facemash对创造Facebook好像很重要似的。并非如此。但是没有Facemash的话,我遇不到Priscilla。她是我生命中最重要的人,所以从这个角度说,Facemash是我人生中做出的最重要的一样东西。在这里,我们开始结交一生的挚友,甚至有的以后会成为家人。这是为什么我对这里如此感激的原因。谢谢你,哈佛!
✦今天我想谈谈目标(Purpose):目标才能创造你真正的快乐
今天我想谈谈目标(Purpose),但是我不是来给你们做一些程序化的宣言,告诉你们如何发现目标。我们是千禧一代,我们会出于直觉和本能发现目标。相反地,我站在这里要说的是,仅仅发现目标还不够。我们这代人面临的挑战,是创造一个人人都能有使命感的世界。
我最喜欢的一个故事,是约翰·F·肯尼迪访问美国宇航局太空中心时,看到了一个拿着扫帚的看门人。于是他走过去问这人在干什么。看门人回答说:“总统先生,我正在帮助把一个人送往月球。” 目标是我们意识到我们是比自己更大的东西的一部分,是我们被需要的、我们需要更为之努力的东西。目标能创造真正的快乐。当我走过很多地方的时候,我曾和许多被拘留的、阿片类药物成瘾的孩子们坐在一起,他们告诉我如果他们有事可做,参加课后活动或者有地方可去,他们的人生会变得很不一样。我也遇到过很多工厂的工人,他们没法再从事之前从事的工作了,所以试图找到新的能做的事。为了保持社会的进步,我们身负挑战——不仅仅是创造新的工作,还要创造新的目标。
我还记得在Kirkland House的小宿舍中创造Facebook的那晚。我和我的朋友KX去了Noch。我记得我告诉他,我很开心能把哈佛的社群连接起来,但是有一天,有人会把整个世界都连接起来。我完全没有想到这个人会是我们。当时我们还只是大学生,对此还并不了解。所有这些大型技术公司都有资源,我只是认为其中一个大公司会做到这一点。但是,我对这个想法很确信——所有人都想和彼此连接,所以我们一直在朝这个方向努力前进。
我知道你们中的很多人也会有类似的故事。你觉得很多人都在改变世界,然而他们并没有,而你会。但是,光有目标是不够的。你必须拥有心系他人的目标。
意识到这点非常难。我从来没想过创造一个公司,我想要的是创造影响力,越来越多的人加入我们,我假设他们跟我关心的是同样的东西,所以我从来没解释过我到底希望建立什么。
✦我在Facebook时最艰难、最孤独的时刻......多年后我明白了原因
几年来,一些大公司想要收购我们。我拒绝了。我想知道是否能连接更多的人。我们正在建立第一个新闻流(News Feed),当时我想,如果我们能做到这一点,它可能会改变我们学习世界的方式。几乎所有人都想让我把公司卖了。没有更高远的使命感,这个创业公司不可能梦想成真。经过激烈的争论后,一位顾问跟我说,如果我不同意出售,我会后悔一辈子。一年左右的时间里,当时的管理层几乎都走了。这是我在Facebook时最艰难的时刻。我相信我们在做的东西,但是我也感到孤独。更糟糕的是,当时我觉得这是我的错。我在想是不是我错了,一个22岁的小孩,都不知道世界是怎么运转的。多年以后的今天,我明白了,那是因为没有更高的目标。是否创造它取决于我们,所以我们能一起前进。
✦没有人从一开始就知道,如何变得伟大
我们这一代将不得不面对数千万的工作被机器取代的情况,比如自动驾驶。但我们还有很多事能一起去完成。每一代都有属于自己一代的作品。比如有超过30万人一起努力,让人类登上了月球——包括那个看门的人;数百万志愿者为世界各地的小儿麻痹症患者打疫苗;数以百万计的人为建立胡佛水坝和其他伟大的项目贡献了自己的力量。做这些项目的使命,并不仅仅是为人们提供工作,而是让我们整个国家感到自豪,我们可以做一些伟大的事情。
现在轮到我们来做一些伟大的事了。我知道,你可能会想:我不知道如何建造大坝,或者如何让一百万人参与到任何事情中来。但我想告诉你一个秘密:没有人从一开始就知道如何做,想法并不会在最初就完全成型。只有当你工作时才变得逐渐清晰,你只需要做的,就是开始。如果我必须在开始(Facebook)之前就了解清楚“如何连接人”的想法,那么我就不会启动Facebook了。
✦成功不是电影中的灵光一闪,可能是“疯子”,可能是“指责”和“批评”
或许电影和流行文化会让人觉得被误导,那些想法会出现在一些灵光一闪的时刻,这其实是一个危险的谎言。这让我们感到不满足,因为我们没有了我们自己的(行动),它会阻止那些拥有好想法的人去开始。对了,你知道电影当中还有什么是对创新的误解吗?那就是,没有人会在玻璃上写数学公式。那不是什么事。其实,理想主义是好事,但你要做好被误解的准备:任何为了更大愿景工作的人,可能会被称为疯子,即使你最终获得成功。任何为了复杂问题工作的人,都会因为不能全面了解挑战而被指责,即使你不可能事先了解一切。任何抓住主动权先行一步的人,都会因为步子太快而受到批评,因为总是有人想让你慢下来。
在我们的社会里,我们并不经常做一些伟大的事,因为我们害怕犯错。如果我们什么都不做,我们就忽视了今天所有的错误。事实上,我们所做的任何事情将来都会有问题,但这不能阻止我们开始。
✦还有很多问题,我们这一代可以去解决
在地球摧毁之前,如何阻止气候变化?如何让数百万人愿意参与制造和安装太阳能电池板? 如何治愈所有疾病?如何要求志愿者跟踪他们的健康数据和分享他们的基因组?今天,我们可能要花上50倍的价格去治疗病人,而不是找到一种治疗方法让人类第一时间无法染上疾病。这并不合理,我们可以解决这个问题。民主现代化如何让每个人都能在网上投票,以及通过个性化教育让每个人都能学习?这些成就,在我们能力范围内是可以实现的,让我们让每个人在我们社会中发挥其应有的作用来做这些事情。让我们做一些伟大的事情,不仅要创造进步,而是要创造purpose。所以我们可以做的第一件事就是,创造一个每人都拥有使命感的世界。
✦我知道,我非常幸运。然而追求目标的自由,从来都不是免费的
Facebook并不是我做的第一件事,我还做过游戏、聊天系统、学习工具和音乐播放器。我并不孤独,因为JK罗琳在出版《哈利波特》之前被拒绝了12次,即使碧昂丝也不得不写了数百首歌曲,才有了今天Halo这首歌获得的光环。最大的成功来自于我们享有失败的自由。
然而,今天,财富不均会让每个人都受到伤害。当你没有自由把你的想法变成一个历史性的企业的时候,我们就输了。现在,我们的社会在通往成功的路上有过多的指引,但我们做得不够,并不是每个人都能够轻易得分(获得成功)。面对现实吧,我们的社会体系是有问题的,当我能够离开哈佛并在10年内赚取数十亿美元的时候,还有数百万学生无法偿还贷款,更不用说开始创业。我认识很多企业家,然而我并不知道是否有一个人是因为没有足够的钱而放弃创业。但是我知道很多人不敢追求梦想,因为一旦他们失败,并没有很好的缓冲(承托住)。我们都知道,想要成功,光凭一个好想法,或者一个好的工作态度,是远远不够的。幸运,也是成功很重要的因素。如果当初,我无法花时间编写代码,而是必须勤工俭学补贴家用,如果我无法承受“万一Facebook不能成功”这一假设,我今天都不会站在这里。诚实地想一想,我们都知道,(能够有今天)自己是多么的幸运。是的,赋予每个人追求目标的自由,这并不是免费的。像我这样的人应当为此付费。在你们之中,许多人都会做得很好,当然,你们也有义务去做好。
这也是为什么当初 Priscilla 和我启动了Chan Zuckerberg Initiative(小扎和妻子成立的基金会,希望消除人类的疾病,建设一个强大的社区,为此捐出了自己持有的 99% Facebook 股份,大约 450 亿美元),并承诺要我们的财富去促进机会平等。这些是我们这代人的价值。“要不要这样做”从来都不是问题,唯一的问题是“什么时候去做”。
✦花一点时间,去帮助其他人,这是我们每个人都可以做到的
千禧一代已经是历史上最慈善的一代人之一了。千禧一代的美国人在一年中,平均四个人里就有三个人会捐款,平均十个人里就有七个人会为慈善募捐。但这也不仅限于金钱。你也可以奉献你的时间。我在这里向你保证,如果你可以每一两周要花一个小时(去奉献和帮助),就会有一个人因此获得帮助,甚至实现他们以前不可能实现的目标。或许你觉得这太花时间了。我曾经也这么认为。当Priscilla毕业于哈佛后,她成了一名老师,在她和我一起投身教育行业之前,她告诉我,我需要去教授一门课。我抱怨道:“好吧,可是我很忙啊,我得经营Facebook啊。”但是她坚持让我去教课,所以我就在当地的男童女童俱乐部教授了一门关于创业精神的中学课程。五年来,我每个月都会和这些孩子一起共进一次晚餐。其中有一个孩子,为我与Priscilla的第一个宝宝在出生前,举办了宝宝洗礼派对。明年,这些孩子们都要上大学了,是的,他们每一个都要上大学了,而且他们都将骄傲地成为自己家族里第一名大学生。花一点时间,去帮助其他人,这是我们每个人都可以做到的。让我们通过此举,让每个人都有实现人生目标的自由——不仅因为这样做是正确的,更是因为当人们可以把梦想变为伟大的现实时,我们每个人都会变得更好。
✦改变源于身边,甚至全球性的改变,也是源自微小的事物——和我们一样的人。在最近一项调查中,世界各地的80后90后被要求选择自己认同的身份,最流行的答案不是国籍,宗教或种族,它是“世界公民”。
这是一个标志性的事件。我遇到了今天毕业的Agnes Igoye,(对着现场说,你在哪里,Agnes?)她在乌干达的冲突地区度过童年时期,现在她在训练数以千计的执法人员来保持社区的安全。我遇到Kayla和Niha,也是今天毕业,他们发起了一个非营利组织,将患有疾病的人与社区内愿意帮助他们的人联系起来。我遇到了David Razu Aznar,今天从肯尼迪政治学院毕业(对着现场说,David站起来)。他是前墨西哥市的议员,他成功领导了一场运动,使墨西哥城成为第一个通过婚姻平等法案的拉丁美洲城市,甚至比旧金山还早。这也是我自己的故事,一个宅在宿舍的学生,一次连接了一个社群,然后始终维护它,直到有一天我们连接了整个世界。
改变源于身边。甚至全球性的改变,也是源自微小的事物——和我们一样的人。
在你们最后一次走出这些校门之前,当我们坐在这纪念教堂前的时候,我想起了一段祈祷,Mi Shebeirach,每当我面对挑战时我都会说的,每当我把女儿放进婴儿床里想象着她的未来都会唱到的:“May the source of strength, who blessed the ones before us, help us *find the courage* to make our lives a blessing.”
(愿力量之源,在我们面前祝福那些人,帮助我们找到勇气,使我们的生活成为一件幸事。”)我希望你们也可以找到属于自己的勇气,使你们的生命成为一个祝福。演讲结束时,冒雨观看的各位都起身鼓掌
看完整个演讲,很燃吧?只想说,所有大成的人物,内心确实住着一颗比我们更伟大的灵魂。不过小扎也说了,没有人一开始就知道自己会变得伟大,以及如何变得伟大。重点在于,你只需要做,就是开始。
第三篇:扎克伯格清华演讲
扎克伯格清华演讲
大家好!很高兴再次来到清华大学。
清华是个非常好的大学;这里的学生们正在创造很多重要和创新的东西;你们是未来科技、商业、政府和其他行业的领导者。
今天我想讨论改变世界的话题。很多人会说你怎么创立企业,或怎么解决问题。但是,今天我想要讨论一个不一样的问题。不是“怎么去创立”,而是“为什么创立”。这就是使命的本质。
今天我想说三个故事。就三个故事。相信你的使命
第一个故事是关于相信你的使命,做你觉得是重要的事情。
2004年,我创立Facebook,是因为我觉得能在网上和人连接是非常重要的。
那时候,互联网上有很多网站,你可以找到差不多所有的东西:新闻,音乐,书,电影,买东西,可是没有服务帮我们找到生活上最重要的东西:人。
人是我们生活最重要的。请大家看这个房间,你们看到什么?不是这个桌子,这个椅子,是这里的人。这是人的特点。
每个人都想跟他们的朋友和家人联系。当我们可以分享和联系,生活会变得更好。当我们分享和联系,我们可以和家人和朋友有更好的关系。我们的企业更强大是因为可以和客户有更好的沟通;社会也会变得更强大是因为我们知道的更多。
当我创立Facebook的时候,我不是要创立一个公司。我想要解决一个非常重要的问题。我想把人们连接在一起。
当我看中国的公司,像阿里巴巴和小米,我看到的是一样的故事。
当你有使命,它会让你更专注。
Facebook 成立几年后,我们的产品做了一个很大的改变。我们推出了动态消息,这个产品可以让你更好地看到你朋友的帖子和更容易和朋友连接。
现在,人们都觉得动态消息是一个好的产品,但是好多人当时不喜欢。那时候,Facebook有一百万用户,差不多十万用户加入了一个小组,他们说:如果我们不给他们原来的Facebook,他们就再也不用Facebook了。这是当时Facebook百分之十的用户啊!如果是今天,这会是1.5亿的用户告诉我们,他们不想用Facebook了。
我们当然关心用户的想法。但我们也知道,连接是很重要的。大部分的公司会害怕这么多的用户离开,所以他们会放弃,但我们相信我们的使命。我们知道动态消息对我们的使命是非常重要的,所以我们坚持住了。今天,动态消息是国际社交媒体很重要的一部分。
“用心”让我们创造出世界上最大的互联网社区
我第二个故事是关于“用心”。如果你有了使命,你不需要有完整的计划,往前走吧!你只要更多用心。
我在哈佛大学的时候,我和我朋友每天晚上吃披萨,讨论未来。我们推出了Facebook第一版本的时候,我记得我们非常高兴我们的产品连接了学生。当时,我们想,总有一天有人会创造连接世界的产品。
有趣的是,我没想到我可能会建立这个连接世界的产品。我只是一个大学生。我觉得一个大公司,像微软或谷歌会开发这个产品。他们有好几千的工程师和上亿的用户。他们应该开发国际社交网络。
但是,他们为什么没做?
我常常想这个问题。我们只是大学生我们没有计划,我们没有资源。我们是怎么创造出世界上最大的互联网社区?有十五亿人以上?
我觉得我们只是更多用心。
在路上的每一步,都有人会说新的想法不会成功。
我们面对过好多问题,需要改变好多次。我们开始只是一个小产品,为了美国学生服务。
一开始的时候,有人说:“Facebook只是给学生用的,所以他永远不会是重要的。”可是我们还是继续。把Facebook开放,给所有人用。后来,又有人说:“好,现在别人也用了Facebook,但是他们很快就不会再用它。”
可是我们还是继续。
人们一直在用,是因为人跟人连接是很重要的。
然后有人说:“可能它在美国有用,但它不会在其他国家有用”。可是我们还是继续。开发到了世界其他国家。
又有人说:“社交媒体永远不会赚钱”。可是我们还是继续。建立了一个强大的业务。
然后有人在说:“人们不会在手机上用Facebook”。可是我们还是继续,现在我们成立了移动为中心的公司。
当时,我们不知道这些问题的答案。没有人知道。
我们每次继续是因为我们用心。
很多公司在创造社交媒体,但是他们害怕这些问题。
我们相信,社交媒体和连接世界是重要的。我们相信,虽然我们不知道每个答案,我们还可以继续帮助人们,连接人们。
我们只是多用心了一点。我们一直在努力,现在十五亿人在用Facebook。
不要因为要改变,就放弃。中国有一句话我觉得很好:“只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针”。一直努力,你会改变世界。
“ 著名公司“惠普”的创始人之一戴维•帕卡德的一段话印证了扎克伯格的演讲观点,他说:“很多人误认为公司存在只是为了赚钱,赚钱只是一种结果,不是存在的真正原因。一群人结合在一起,是为了能够合力完成一己之力无法做到的事情——对社会做出贡献。如创造社会曾经不存在的没有过的产品,提供一种独特的服务,是有价值的事……我们存在的真正原因,是我们要提供一些独一无二(能有独特贡献)的东西。”——编者 一直向前看,总会解决面临的挑战
我第三个故事是关于向前看。
马云说过一句话我很喜欢:“和15年前比,我们很大;但和15年后比,我们还是个婴儿。”
为了重要的使命,你了解的更多,你也会觉得要做的事情更多。
十年前,我们的目标是连接十亿人。因为以前没有互联网企业做过,所以我们觉得这是一个很大的目标。
当我们达到了这个目标,我们开始了解十亿只是一个数字,我们真的目标是连接整个世界每一个人。
这难多了。
世界上差不多三分之二的人没有互联网。把他们连接起来,我们必须扩大整个互联网。
要做到这个,我们要解决很多的问题。超过十亿人不住在网络附近。所以我们需要创造新的技术,像卫星和飞机,把他们连接起来。超过十亿人没有钱上互联网,所以我们需要让互联网更便宜。大约二十亿的人没有用过电脑或互联网,所以我们需要创造新的方案,帮助他们连接起来。
三年前,我们成立 Internet.Org,去扩大互联网。我跟我们的董事会说,我觉得我们要花十亿多美元。他们问我: 这个东西怎么赚钱?我告诉他们:我不知道。但是我知道,连接人是我们的使命,这是非常重要的。我们必须向前看,我们现在还不知道整个计划,但是如果我们帮助人们,未来我们也会受益。
这就是向前看的意思。每走一步,你可以做新的东西。以前你觉得是不可能的,现在就可能。现在你有面对非常难的挑战,你努力,也会解决这些挑战。一直向前看。
中国历史是一直创新的。中国给了世界四大发明:造纸,印刷术,指南针和火药。
学习对创新最重要。在清华,你们有很好的学习机会,这些机会会帮助你们有美好的未来。
几年前,我的妻子,Priscilla,在一个北京的医院学习。她选择北京,因为她想要在中国和非常好的老师学习。
我的中文很糟糕,但是我还是很喜欢学习中文。
你多学习,会在生活里创新。也会在企业里创新。你就什么都可以做。
在你开始做之前,不要只问自己,你怎么做。要问自己:为什么做?
你应该相信你的使命。解决重要的问题。非常用心。不要放弃。一直向前看。
你们可以成为全球领导者,可以提高人们的生活。可以用互联网影响全世界。
我非常兴奋今天在这里可以和清华学生和线上的朋友交流。多谢大家给我这个机会。让我们一起来连接世界。
第四篇:2017扎克伯格哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲
扎克伯格辍学12年后终获哈佛学位(毕业演讲视频)
Mark Zuckerberg finally gets his Harvard degreeBill Gates and Steve Jobs among them.脸书创始人马克•扎克伯格是辍学创办科技公司并成为百万富翁的成功人士之一,比尔•盖茨和史蒂夫•乔布斯也是他的同道中人。
But 12 years after leaving Harvard to work on Facebook full time, he has returned to pick up his degree.然而,在离开哈佛全职从事脸书工作12年后,扎克伯格又重回母校取得学位。
Zuckerberg founded what was then called “The Facebook” in his college dormitory in 2004.The service was at first limited only to Harvard students before expanding to other Ivy League universities.2004年,扎克伯格在大学宿舍里创办了“脸书”(当时叫The Facebook)。“脸书”服务最初只对哈佛学生开放,后来又扩展到其他常春藤大学。
He delivered the university's commencement address later on Thursday.After receiving the honour, he posted a photo of him with his parents Edward and Karen Zuckerberg.本周四他在哈佛大学发表毕业演讲。在获得学位后他上传了一张和父亲爱德华、母亲卡伦的合照。
Today @HarvardAlumni Mark Zuckerberg fulfills his parents dream with a Harvard degree.— Hal Burstein, MD(@DrHBurstein)May 25, 2017 今天 @哈佛校友 马克•扎克伯格用一个哈佛学位圆了他父母的梦。——哈尔•布尔斯泰恩,医学博士(@DrHBurstein),2017年5月25日
During his remarks on Thursday, Mr Zuckerberg told graduates that “we live in an unstable time”.在他的演讲中,扎克伯格对毕业生表示,“我们生活在一个不稳定的时代”。
With his wife, Priscilla, in the audience, he pointed to the dormitory where he launched Facebook, and remarked that meeting her there was the best thing to happen to him at the university.演讲时,他的妻子普莉希拉就在观众席,他指着当初创立脸书的寝室说,在那里遇到普莉希拉是他在哈佛期间发生的最美好的事。
Zuckerberg returned to the room where he built Facebook along with his co-founders, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.扎克伯格回到了他和联合创始人达斯汀•莫斯科维茨、爱德华多•萨维林、安德鲁•麦科克伦和克里斯•休斯一起创建脸书网站的寝室。
Even after the company moved its headquarters to California, Zuckerberg continued to be enrolled at Harvard until he dropped out in November 2005.“I'm not coming back” he told the university paper The Crimson.即便在公司总部搬到加州之后,哈佛仍然保留扎克伯格的学生资格,直到他2005年11月辍学。他告诉哈佛校报《深红报》说:“我不会回去了。”
His honorary degree comes 12 years later, a little quicker than it took Bill Gates, another famous Harvard dropout to get his.Gates, who left to found Microsoft in 1975, did not receive his honorary degree until 2007.12年后,扎克伯格拿到了荣誉学位,跟比尔•盖茨相比早了几年,比尔•盖茨也是著名的哈佛辍学生,他1975年离开哈佛创办微软公司,直到2007年才拿到荣誉学位。
Last week, Zuckerberg shared a video of him finding out he had been accepted into Harvard.上周,扎克伯格还分享了当年自己得知被哈佛大学录取时的视频。
现在,一起来看看扎克伯格的毕业演讲精彩片段:
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Harvard Commencement 2017
President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world,I'm honored to be with you today because, let's face it, you accomplished something I never could.If I get through this speech, it'll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard.Class of 2017, congratulations!
I'm an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we're technically in the same generation.We walked this yard less than a decade apart, studied the same ideas and slept through the same Ec10 lectures.We may have taken different paths 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 building together.But first, the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories.How many of you remember exactly what you were doing when you got that email telling you that you got into Harvard? I was playing Civilization and I ran downstairs, got my dad, and for some reason, his reaction was to video me opening the email.That could have been a really sad video.I swear getting into Harvard is still the thing my parents are most proud of me for.What about your first lecture at Harvard? Mine was Computer Science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis.I was late so I threw on a t-shirt and didn't realize until afterwards it was inside out and backwards with my tag sticking out the front.I couldn't figure out why no one would talk to me--except one guy, KX Jin, he just went with it.We ended up 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.But my best memory from Harvard was 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 came to help me pack.My friends threw me a going away party.As luck would have it, Priscilla was at that party with her friend.We met in line for the bathroom in the Pfoho Belltower, and in what must be one of the all time romantic lines, I said: “I'm going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly.”
Actually, any of you graduating can use that line.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 creating Facebook.It wasn't.But without Facemash I wouldn't have met Priscilla, and she's the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here.We've 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'll try to do that instinctively.Instead, I'm here to tell you finding your purpose isn't enough.The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.One of my favorite stories is when John F Kennedy visited the NASA space center, he saw a janitor carrying a broom and he walked over and asked what he was doing.The janitor responded: “Mr.President, I'm helping put a man on the moon”.Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for.Purpose is what creates true happiness.You're graduating at a time when this is especially important.When our parents graduated, purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community.But today, technology and automation are eliminating many jobs.Membership in communities is declining.Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void.As I've traveled around, I've sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or somewhere to go.I've met factory workers who know their old jobs aren't coming back and are trying to find their place.To keep our society moving forward, we have a generational challenge--to not only create new jobs, but create a renewed sense of purpose.I remember the night I launched Facebook from my little dorm in Kirkland House.I went to Noch's with my friend KX.I remember telling him I was excited to connect the Harvard community, but one day someone would connect the whole world.The thing is, it never even occurred to me that someone might be us.We were just college kids.We didn't know anything about that.There were all these big technology companies with resources.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 moving forward, day by day.I know a lot of you will have your own stories just like this.A change in the world that seems so clear you're sure someone else will do it.But they won't.You will.But it's not enough to have purpose yourself.You have to create a sense of purpose for others.I found that out the hard way.You see, my hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact.And as all these people started joining us, I just assumed that's what they cared about too, so I never explained what 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.We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world.Nearly everyone else wanted to sell.Without a sense of higher purpose, this was the startup dream come true.It tore our company apart.After one tense argument, an advisor told me if I didn't agree to sell, I would regret the decision for the rest of my life.Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone.That was my hardest time leading 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 the world worked.Now, years later, I understand that *is* how things work with no sense of higher purpose.It's up to us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.Today I want to talk about three ways to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose: by taking on big meaningful projects together, by redefining equality so everyone has the freedom to pursue purpose, and by building community across the world.First, let's take on big meaningful projects.Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks.But we have the potential to do so much more together.Every generation has its defining works.More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor.Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio.Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects.These projects didn't just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.Now it's our turn to do great things.I know, you're probably thinking: I don't know how to build a dam, or get a million people involved in anything.But let me tell you a secret: no one does when they begin.Ideas don't come out fully formed.They only become clear as you work on them.You just have to get started.If I had to understand everything about connecting people before I began, I never would have started Facebook.Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie.It makes us feel inadequate since we haven't had ours.It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started.Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.That's not a thing.It's good to be idealistic.But be prepared to be misunderstood.Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right.Anyone working on a complex problem will get blamed for not fully understanding the challenge, even though it's impossible to know everything upfront.Anyone taking initiative will get criticized for moving too fast, because there's always someone who wants to slow you down.In our society, we often don't do big things because we're so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing.The reality is, anything we do will have issues in the future.But that can't keep us from starting.So what are we waiting for? It's time for our generation-defining public works.How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels? How about curing all diseases and asking volunteers to track their health data and share their genomes? Today we spend 50x more treating people who are sick than we spend finding cures so people don’t get sick in the first place.That makes no sense.We can fix this.How about modernizing democracy so everyone can vote online, and personalizing education so everyone can learn?
These achievements are within our reach.Let's do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society a role.Let's do big things, not only to create progress, but to create purpose.So taking on big meaningful projects is the first thing we can do to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.The second is redefining equality to give everyone the freedom they need to pursue purpose.Many of our parents had stable jobs throughout their careers.Now we're all entrepreneurial, whether we're starting projects or finding or role.And that's great.Our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress.Now, an entrepreneurial culture thrives when it's easy to try lots of new ideas.Facebook wasn't the first thing I built.I also built games, chat systems, study tools and music players.I'm not alone.JK Rowling got rejected 12 times before publishing Harry Potter.Even Beyonce had to make hundreds of songs to get Halo.The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail.But today, we have a level of wealth inequality that hurts everyone.When you don't have the freedom to take your idea and turn it into a historic enterprise, we all lose.Right now our society is way over-indexed on rewarding success and we don't do nearly enough to make it easy for everyone to take lots of shots.Let's face it.There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business.Look, I know a lot of entrepreneurs, and I don't know a single person who gave up on starting a business because they might not make enough money.But I know lots of people who haven't pursued dreams because they didn't have a cushion to fall back on if they failed.We all know we don't succeed just by having a good idea or working hard.We succeed by being lucky too.If I had to support my family growing up instead of having time to code, if I didn't know I'd be fine if Facebook didn't work out, I wouldn't be standing here today.If we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.Every generation expands its definition of equality.Previous generations fought for the vote and civil rights.They had the New Deal and Great Society.Now it's our time to define a new social contract for our generation.We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful.We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things.We’re going to change jobs many times, so we need affordable childcare to get to work and healthcare that aren't tied to one company.We're all going to make mistakes, so we need a society that focuses less on locking us up or stigmatizing us.And as technology keeps changing, we need to focus more on continuous education throughout our lives.And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn't free.People like me should pay for it.Many of you will do well and you should too.That's why Priscilla and I started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and committed our wealth to promoting equal opportunity.These are the values of our generation.It was never a question of if we were going to do this.The only question was when.Millennials are already one of the most charitable generations in history.In one year, three of four US millennials made a donation and seven out of ten raised money for charity.But it's not just about money.You can also give time.I promise you, if you take an hour or two a week--that's all it takes to give someone a hand, to help them reach their potential.Maybe you think that's too much time.I used to.When Priscilla graduated from Harvard she became a teacher, and before she'd do education work with me, she told me I needed to teach a class.I complained: “Well, I'm kind of busy.I'm running this company.” But she insisted, so I taught a middle school program on entrepreneurship at the local Boys and Girls Club.I taught them lessons on product development and marketing, and they taught me what it's like feeling targeted for your race and having a family member in prison.I shared stories from my time in school, and they shared their hope of one day going to college too.For five years now, I’ve been having dinner with those kids every month.One of them threw me and Priscilla our first baby shower.And next year they’re going to college.Every one of them.First in their families.We can all make time to give someone a hand.Let's give everyone the freedom to pursue their purpose--not only because it's the right thing to do, but because when more people can turn their dreams into something great, we're all better for it.Purpose doesn't only come from work.The third way we can create a sense of purpose for everyone is by building community.And when our generation says “everyone”, we mean everyone in the world.Quick show of hands: how many of you are from another country? Now, how many of you are friends with one of these folks? Now we're talking.We have grown up connected.In a survey asking millennials around the world what defines our identity, the most popular answer wasn't nationality, religion or ethnicity, it was “citizen of the world”.That's a big deal.Every generation expands the circle of people we consider “one of us”.For us, it now encompasses the entire world.We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers--from tribes to cities to nations--to achieve things we couldn't on our own.We get that our greatest opportunities are now global--we can be the generation that ends poverty, that ends disease.We get that our greatest challenges need global responses too--no country can fight climate change alone or prevent pandemics.Progress now requires coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.But we live in an unstable time.There are people left behind by globalization across the world.It's hard to care about people in other places if we don’t feel good about our lives here at home.There’s pressure to turn inwards.This is the struggle of our time.The forces of freedom, openness and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.Forces for the flow of knowledge, trade and immigration against those who would slow them down.This is not a battle of nations, it's a battle of ideas.There are people in every country for global connection and good people against it.This isn't going to be decided at the UN either.It's going to happen at the local level, when enough of us feel a sense of purpose and stability in our own lives that we can open up and start caring about everyone.The best way to do that is to start building local communities right now.We all get meaning from our communities.Whether our communities are houses or sports teams, churches or music groups, they give us that sense we are part of something bigger, that we are not alone;they give us the strength to expand our horizons.That's why it's so striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter.That's a lot of people who now need to find purpose somewhere else.But I know we can rebuild our communities and start new ones because many of you already are.I met Agnes Igoye, who's graduating today.Where are you, Agnes? She spent her childhood navigating conflict zones in Uganda, and now she trains thousands of law enforcement officers to keep communities safe.I met Kayla Oakley and Niha Jain, graduating today, too.Stand up.Kayla and Niha started a non-profit that connects people suffering from illnesses with people in their communities willing to help.I met David Razu Aznar, graduating from the Kennedy School today.David, stand up.He’s a former city councilor who successfully led the battle to make Mexico City the first Latin American city to pass marriage equality--even before San Francisco.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 biggest opportunities, comes down to this--your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.Class of 2017, you are graduating into a world that needs purpose.It's up to you to create it.Now, you may be thinking: can I really do this?
Remember when I told you about that class I taught at the Boys and Girls Club? One day after class I was talking to them about college, and one of my top students raised his hand and said he wasn't sure he could go because he's undocumented.He didn't know if they'd let him in.Last year I took him out to breakfast for his birthday.I wanted to get him a present, so I asked him and he started talking about students he saw struggling and said “You know, I'd really just like a book on social justice.”
I was blown away.Here's a young guy who has every reason to be cynical.He didn't know if the country he calls home--the only one he's known--would deny him his dream of going to college.But he wasn't feeling sorry for himself.He wasn't even thinking of himself.He has a greater sense of purpose, and he's going to bring people along with him.It says something about our current situation that I can't even say his name because I don't want to put him at risk.But if a high school senior who doesn't know what the future holds can do his part to move the world forward, then we owe it to the world to do our part too.Before you walk out those gates one last time, as we sit in front of Memorial Church, I am reminded of a prayer, Mi Shebeirach, that I say whenever I face a challenge, that I sing to my daughter thinking about her future when I tuck her into bed.It goes:
“May the source of strength, who blessed the ones before us, help us *find the courage* to make our lives a blessing.”
I hope you find the courage to make your life a blessing.Congratulations, Class of '17!Good luck out there.
第五篇:Facebook创始人扎克伯格英文演讲稿
Facebook创始人扎克伯格英文演讲稿
We're designing stuff, we look not necessarily just about what any given users going to experience,but what's going to be better for the whole coummunity and the whole product.And I mean, it's gonna be a lot of trade-off going all over the place in a product.Probably the most that you see every day is that you can't see the profiles of people at other schools.That's a really a major trade-off in the application.当我们设计应用程序的时候,我们并不注重单一用户的使用体验,而更关注其是否有意与整个社区和产品。这就需要再开发产品的各个环节进行取舍。可能你注意到你不能浏览其他学校的人的信息。这就是一种取舍后的结果。
For those of you who aren't familiar with this, we spilt up the user base by what school they go to and we make it so that people at a given school can only see the profiles and contact information of people at their school.And the reason for this was mostly to, because we realized that the people around you, at your school, are the people who you want to look at mostly anyway.And if we made the space too broad and let anyone see your information.then that probably fine.I mean, look up some people, but you also probably won't put up your cellphone.你们有些人对此不太了解,我们将用户按照学校分类,所以只有来自相同学校的人才能互相看到对方的信息和联系方式。之所以这样做,是因为我们发现人们更乐于 关注身边的人的信息。如果我们把空间扩展到所有人都可以浏览你的信息,那可能也不错,谁你都找得到,但是可能你就不愿意把你的手机号放上去了。
More than a third of people on Facebook have their cellphone up there, and that's something that's something useful for the application.So in designing it, this was a trade-off that we made.I kind of thought of what was wrong.I said, well, what would be more useful? Would it be better for people to be able to see everyone and maybe not feel like this is a secure environment in which they can share their interests and what they thought and what they care about? Or would be better that more information and more expression was available, but to a smaller audience which is probably the relevant audience for any person? So, there are a lot of decisions like that, that are getting made and a lot of them are gut level.超过三成的Facebook用户在注册时登记过电话号码,所以对我们这个应用是很重要的。所以在设计产品的时候就要做这种取舍.我觉得这样做好像不对,一 直在想什么会更有用?要么将用户信息对所有人开放,但这却让人们觉得在这样的网络中分享自己的所感所想不太安全还是仅将更多的用户信息和状态展示给少部分 与该用户有关的人。我要做很多类似的决定,而且这些决定是要靠直觉判断的。
So i mean, we tried to be as academic about this possible in trying to think rigorously through the different results that we'll get if we go to different directions.But a lot of it is just like you define your objectives, what you're going for.In this case, to optimize for the best of the whole community and the whole user base and over the long term, and that's important too, long term but short term.And then,you just kind of operate and do what you think will be best along that line.我们一直努力以最学术的态度去谨慎地思考不同方式所能产生的不同结果。但多数时候,你得先确定你的目标,你要的是什么。对我们来说,是寻求长期的整个社区及用户群体的利益最大化,注意是长期的,而不是短期的。然后就是为更好地达到这一目标而努力。
背景介绍:马克·扎克伯格,美国社交网站Facebook的创办人,被人们冠以“盖茨第二”的美誉。哈佛大学计算机和心理学专业辍学生。据《福布斯》杂志保守估计,马克·扎克伯格拥有15亿美元身家,是08年全球最年轻的单身巨富,也是历来全球最年轻的自行创业亿万富豪。