Gadgetory

how's facebook thinking about its own role in creating this platform for entrepreneurship around the world I know that's something they even thinking a lot about to me entrepreneurship is about creating change not just creating companies and you know the most effective entrepreneurs that who I've met care deeply about some mission and some change that they're trying to create and often they don't even start because they're trying to create a company right and you know that's how I think about you know my connection to to all of us here is when I was getting started I um and I want it I care deeply about giving everyone a voice right and giving people the tools to share everything that they cared about and bringing a community together and it started small and in one University and I didn't think it was going to be a company at the time as a matter of fact I was pretty convinced that at some point someone would build something like this for the world but you know I thought that that would be some other company that you know already had thousands of Engineers and was used to building stuff for hundreds of millions of people around the world and you know what ended up happening was you know that no one built it right so we just kind of kept on going right I mean people said it each step along the way you know what you're doing alright maybe college students like it but no one else is going to like it and you know there's not going to be any money in doing this so alright so you only really do it if you care all right if you're passionate about doing it and and then it started growing and people said it would be a fad and it would never be a good business but you know you keep going because you care not because you're trying to create a business and you know then there's the shift in mobile where people thought that it wouldn't be a sustainable business and you know each of these things you entrepreneur so I think build things that last for a long time keep going because they care fundamentally about the change that they're trying to create in the world and they're not in it just to build a company and you know I carry that with me today you know so you know today we have we live in a world with more than seven billion people but more than four billion of us or not on the Internet and you know we talked about having an equal opportunity to be able to create a change in the world and I think that's a really hard thing to do if if you don't have access to some of the basic infrastructure and technical tools that are necessary to to build this kind of technical these kind of technical products so you know I kind of think about what we're doing today I'm very similarly to how I thought about where we were at the beginning you know it's you know I give people all the time who come to me and say all right well you're investing billions of dollars in trying to put Internet connectivity and places where you know we don't get paid for it it's not something that will that will make any money from for a very long period of time if it works out but you know it's this deep belief that you're trying to make a change you're trying to connect people in the world and I really do believe that if you do something good and if you help people out then eventually some portion of that good will come back to you and you may not know up front what it's going to be but that's just been the guiding principle for me in the work that we've done and I hope that some of the work that we do can play a role and empowering you and so many more entrepreneurs to build the next great companies Thanks