Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

My name is Marcia and I’m 11 years old. My name is Mary and I’m 11 years old. When they see us together, some don’t believe that we’re twins. They don’t believe us; they’re like, “Oh really? I never noticed that. I thought you were just friends,” because …

The first jet I ever sold in my life, I was held at gunpoint 3 ft away from me. It’s a long story. So, the first time I sold the jet, I was 23 years old. I flew to America, to North Carolina. We were signing a deal with a Venezuelan buyer; he had two of h…

If you had to choose between saying a two-syllable word or a four-syllable word to sound smart, which one would you choose? It might sound counterintuitive, but choosing the four-syllable word will make you sound kinda dumb compared to choosing the two-sy…

[Applause] Now it’s time for me to get something off my chest. It’s been bugging me since I was a little kid, so you may as well be my first victims. Now, all of you out there know what an atom looks like right? It looks like this. So am I right? No, I’…

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but it seems like sometimes in life the more you want something, the harder it is to get. This seems to be the case with starting a business or writing a book or any of these big life plans we always dream about. …

Janeshia was an amazing city of the Maya. What we see now is the civic and religious part of it, so we can tell these buildings were sacred. El Castillo, or Temple of Kukulkan, is an amazing building based on astronomical and mathematical science. I’ve be…