--- title: Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement Speech: Read Transcript description: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivered the commencement address at Harvard University on Thursday. Read his full remarks. canonical: https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-25T21:21:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:07:53.858Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Commencement Address og:description: "Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right" og:url: https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaaa5f7c7501be32/6988cefb8e0601fbe846a888/mark-zuckerberg-harvard.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 366th Harvard University Commencement og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Commencement Address twitter:description: "Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaaa5f7c7501be32/6988cefb8e0601fbe846a888/mark-zuckerberg-harvard.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Commencement Address by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 25, 2017 9:21 PM UTC  Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout and CEO of Facebook, a company worth nearly $400 billion, is pictured at the Harvard University commencement in Cambridge, MA on May 25, 2017. Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout and CEO of Facebook, a company worth nearly $400 billion, is pictured at the Harvard University commencement in Cambridge, MA on May 25, 2017.Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 25, 2017 9:21 PM UTC Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivered the commencement address at Harvard University on Thursday. His full remarks are below, as shared on Zuckerberg’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/harvard-commencement-2017/10154853758606634/). --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Commencement Address","datePublished":"2017-05-25T21:21:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:07:53.858Z","description":"\"Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right\"","url":"https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/","keywords":["Education","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaaa5f7c7501be32/6988cefb8e0601fbe846a888/mark-zuckerberg-harvard.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaaa5f7c7501be32/6988cefb8e0601fbe846a888/mark-zuckerberg-harvard.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"366th Harvard University Commencement","caption":"366th Harvard University Commencement","creditText":"Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4795031/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-harvard-commencement-transcript/","name":"Read Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Commencement Address"}}]}] ```