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!

Once a dropper from the University got honored with a degree. This is success.

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.