Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

[Applause] Welcome to Alaska! I’m just outside of Fairbanks, and I’m trying to find the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis. But the conditions haven’t been ideal because tonight it’s a bit cloudy, a bit hazy, and we’ve got a moon out which is nearly ful…

I wish I were sharing. Do you want to hand me a billion dollars? I’ll help you out. Okay, watch this, watch this. Hey, you know how it is: you’ve got a billion dollars in the bank and you don’t know what to do with it. It is a problem many people face. I …

[Teacher] A candy machine creates small chocolate wafers in the shape of circular discs. The diameter, the diameter of each wafer is 16 millimeters. What is the area of each candy? So, the candy, they say it’s the shape of circular discs. And they tell …

THANDIWE MWEETWA: Our beautiful wilderness is in trouble. It’s being hammered on all sides by human encroachment, poaching, and habitat degradation. And our mission is to save these large cats, wild dogs, and all these other species in our beautiful ecosy…

All right, I’m excited to have all four of you here. So I’d love for you to each introduce yourselves. If you could introduce yourself and your company and what it does, what batch you went through YC, and you know how much money you’ve raised or the stag…

( Intro music ) Four years ago, I was standing in front of a group of local fishermen on a tiny island called Mitiaro in the Cook Islands. And I was there to tell them why they needed to protect sharks. Except there was one problem. They hated sharks. Sh…