Zuckerberg is giving a commencement address at his one-time alma mater, where he dropped out 12 years ago to create and focus on social med...
Zuckerberg is giving a commencement address at his one-time alma mater, where he dropped out 12 years ago to create and focus on social media giant Facebook.
“Mom, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree”, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a facebook post after getting his honorary degree from Harvard university on Thursday.
Zuckerberg gave a commencement address at his one-time alma mater, where he dropped out 12 years ago to create and focus on social media giant Facebook. He began his speech telling students, “You accomplished something I never could.” He further talked about how through his travels around the country, people have told him they’re trying to fill a void in their lives as jobs and community become less important in modern society. “It’s time for our generation to define a new social contract” where we measure progress by everyone having a role and a purpose”, he said.
He enrolled in Harvard College in 2002 and dropped out after two years without completing his degree. The 33-year-old entrepreneur had launched Facebook which was then known as “Thefacebook”, in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 where he also met his wife, Priscilla Chan.
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Meanwhile, Zuckerberg had last week shared the throwback video that was captured about 15 years ago at Harvard. Replying to a follower in a comment, the Facebook founder wrote his mother had predicted he would leave college. He said, “Before I went to college, my mom bet me I’d drop out and my younger sister bet me she’d finish college before me. I bet them I’d get a degree. Now I suppose the cycle is complete.”
Zuckerberg follows another famous Harvard dropout, Bill Gates, who addressed its graduates a decade ago.
The event is being livestreamed on Harvard’s website and on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.
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