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0:00It's the idea that matters.
0:03It didn't matter where you come from or
0:05what your background is. One
0:07revolutionary idea, one brilliant
0:10invention can unleash others to
0:13revolutionize industries in ways you
0:15could never predict.
0:18So take the time to find the thing that
0:20excites you more than anything else in
0:22the world. Not the thing your parents
0:24want you to do or the thing that all
0:27your friends are doing or that society
0:30expects of you.
0:33Let me tell you a little bit about my
0:34personal journey to Silicon Valley from
0:36India 22 years ago. Growing up in India,
0:39like many of you, I got my first
0:41telephone when I was 12. In my case, it
0:44turned out to be a rotary phone, so it
0:46wasn't that great for selfies, but I
0:49still love to call my friends, play with
0:51it, and sometimes take it apart. That
0:54telephone cemented my fascination with
0:56technology. I remember in my parents
0:59house in Chennai reading about the
1:01invention of the transistor at Bell
1:03Labs. Of course, that initial invention
1:06helped found what became known as
1:08Silicon Valley. And out of that came
1:11companies like Fatile Semiconductor and
1:13Intel and all the computers and software
1:16that we all use today. You can draw a
1:19direct line from that invention to the
1:21technology that powers your Twitter feed
1:23or your WeChat messages today. I
1:27remember reading about that and thinking
1:29it's the idea that matters. It didn't
1:31matter where you come from or what your
1:33background is. One revolutionary idea,
1:37one brilliant invention can unleash
1:40other entrepreneurs to revolutionize
1:42industries in ways you could never
1:44predict. In India, another early and
1:47insightful decision was to create the
1:49Indian Institutes of Technology. These
1:51are leading engineering and technical
1:52institutions that are government
1:54supported. I still vividly remember as a
1:57teenager jumping onto a crowded train in
2:00at Chennai and traveling for 24 hours to
2:03attend my school at IAT Karakpur and
2:05that opportunity changed the course of
2:07my life. These institutions over many
2:11decades have played a huge role in
2:14creating generations of skilled
2:15entrepreneurs in India.
2:18The people who built the transistor in
2:19many ways enabled the entrepreneurs who
2:23are using incredible processing power to
2:26analyze data and diagnose cancer. In the
2:29same way, the invention of smartphones
2:32and GPS has enabled other companies to
2:35build apps that revolutionize the way we
2:38travel around cities. That's why I came
2:41here. I had a deep desire to be part of
2:44this exchange of ideas, this community
2:46of entrepreneurs. And coming to the
2:48global hub where this was all happening,
2:51I felt welcomed and embraced. People
2:54didn't care where I came from. Only my
2:56ideas and hard work mattered. I'm not
2:59alone. That is why you're here.
3:03The possibility that anyone with the
3:05right idea at the right time can have an
3:08impact on others that is no longer
3:10limited to a single place. It's possible
3:13everywhere.
3:15What we are seeing now is an
3:17unprecedented global opportunity.
3:20In China, a few months ago, I met
3:23entrepreneurs combining social,
3:26commerce, and business platforms in
3:28entirely new and unique ways. And
3:31earlier I mentioned a game built by an
3:34entrepreneur from Vietnam. When I was
3:36last in Vietnam, I met him. His name is
3:39Dong Nuan and he created Flappy Bird. He
3:42was a developer from Hanoi who wanted to
3:44create simple games, nonviolent games
3:47that reminded him of why he fell in love
3:49with gaming in the first place. And it
3:51quickly became one of the world's most
3:53downloaded games for Android and
3:55iPhones.
3:57Great ideas and technology no longer
4:00come from just Silicon Valley. They can
4:02and do come from anywhere and now they
4:05can quickly reach scale. I see hubs
4:08growing all over the world. Germany,
4:11Brazil, UK, Israel, China. The latest
4:16figures say that 21% of adults across 60
4:19countries intend to start a business in
4:21the next 3 years. And there are over 200
4:24million women around the world who are
4:27starting or running a business. It's
4:30clear that Silicon Valley is now as much
4:32an idea as a place. And it is an ideal
4:36of what's possible.
4:38You're the ones building the next
4:39Google, the next Spotify, the next
4:42Tesla, the next well, we don't even
4:45know. But what I know is that someone in
4:47this room will build it. We at Google
4:50are proud to be supporting this summit
4:53and we are passionate about
4:54entrepreneurship. This is such an
4:56important issue for our company but also
4:58for our country and for a community of
5:01entrepreneurs around the world.
5:06At Google, entrepreneurship is in our
5:08DNA. Google was founded here at Stanford
5:11and the company's first home was in a
5:13garage just a couple miles from here.
5:16Like many of you in the audience, our
5:18founders were two young people with a
5:20vision of a better future, a better way,
5:23and and they decided to follow their
5:25dreams. We now live on our own campus
5:28down the road and in dozens of
5:30countries, but the spirit continues.
5:33In fact, our most popular products,
5:35almost all big ideas that small
5:38entrepreneurial teams dreamed up and
5:41made happen.
5:43Gmail started with one person's passion
5:45to reinvent email. Today, it has over 1
5:49billion monthly active users. Our
5:52browser Chrome, a small team's obsession
5:54to bring a faster, more secure web to
5:57everyone, now has over a billion monthly
5:59active users. Cardboard, our virtual
6:03reality viewer. Two engineers in our
6:05Paris office had an idea of what's
6:08possible with a piece of cardboard and a
6:09phone. Now more than 5 million viewers
6:12are taking people to new worlds.
6:15Using cardboard, teachers can take their
6:18classes on virtual field trips from the
6:20Great Barrier Reef to Machu Picchu.
6:23First lady Michelle Obama made this part
6:25of her reach higher education
6:27initiative. More than 1 million students
6:30from 11 countries have gone on virtual
6:32field trips. And today we are making
6:35Cardboard available to LGBTQ centers
6:38around the world. So people who cannot
6:40physically attend pride parades and
6:43festivals this weekend can still have
6:45the pride experience.
6:48All of this came from two engineers in
6:50Paris's bright idea. We don't know
6:53what's next or where it'll come from,
6:56but we know that the barriers to
6:58entrepreneurship and to bringing ideas
7:00to global audiences are tumbling. People
7:04working anywhere in the world, born
7:06anywhere in the world, can create a
7:08product and make it available to anyone
7:10in the world. There are many countries
7:12helping to create positive environment
7:14for their entrepreneurs.
7:16At Google, we are committed to playing
7:19our part to foster the next generation
7:20of entrepreneurs.
7:22Our Google for entrepreneurs team has
7:24established a number of campuses.
7:27These provide space for entrepreneurs to
7:29build and work together in major tech
7:32hubs to take their ideas and go global.
7:36We have opened campuses in London,
7:38Madrid, Sapalo, Soul, Tel Aviv and we
7:42look forward to reaching new cities in
7:43the future and perhaps welcoming some of
7:46you to drop by. Google tools help
7:49businesses launch and grow every day.
7:51More than 30 million small businesses
7:53globally rely on at least one Google
7:55product to find customers, to grow, and
7:58to be productive.
8:01Training. We're also committed to train
8:035.5 million people on digital skills,
8:06investing over $140 million during the
8:09past year. In the next year, we aim to
8:12provide free digital skills training to
8:151 million young people in Africa alone.
8:19I know how much hard work it takes to
8:22pursue a dream of building a business.
8:24The long hours, time away from family,
8:27the rejection, the ideas, you know, are
8:30brilliant that just don't seem to catch
8:32on. There is a great quote from Thomas
8:35Edison that does the best job of
8:37defining what it's like to be an
8:39entrepreneur. I have not failed. I have
8:42just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
8:51Everyone here is part of a tradition
8:53that stretches all the way back to
8:54Edison and up to companies like Google
8:57today. It's about more than building
8:59apps to make money. It's about
9:01transforming industries, creating
9:03millions of jobs, curing diseases,
9:06fighting global warming, and making our
9:09schools richer environments for our
9:11children. And I hope you find the summit
9:13invigorating and that when you get home,
9:15it encourages you to continue building.
9:18You will prevail.
9:20The reason I know you'll prevail is
9:22because so many others have done it
9:24before you. The long arc of history
9:27tells us we have every reason to be
9:29hopeful. So be hopeful. There is an
9:33interesting trend I've noticed. It's
9:35very conventional for every generation
9:38to underestimate the potential of the
9:40following one. It's because they don't
9:43realize that the progress of one
9:45generation becomes the foundational
9:47premise for the next and it takes a new
9:50set of people to come along and realize
9:52all the possibilities.
9:55I grew up without much access to
9:57technology. We didn't get our first
9:59telephone till I was 10. I didn't have
10:02regular access to a computer until I
10:04came to America for graduate school. My
10:08father spent the equivalent of a year's
10:10salary on my plane ticket to the US so I
10:13could attend Stanford. It was my first
10:15time ever on a plane. But when I
10:18eventually landed in California, things
10:20weren't as I had imagined. America was
10:23expensive. A phone call back home was
10:26more than $2 a minute. and a backpack
10:28cost the same as my dad's monthly salary
10:30in India. And for all the talk about the
10:33warm California beaches, that water was
10:36freezing cold. On top of all that, I
10:39missed my family, my friends, and my
10:41girlfriend, now my wife, back in India.
10:45A bright spot for me during this time
10:47was computing. For the first time in my
10:50life, I could use a computer whenever I
10:52wanted to. Completely blew my mind.
10:56under television when we finally got one
10:59only had one channel. So imagine how
11:02aruck I am today to be speaking to you
11:04on a platform that has millions of
11:06channels. There are probably things
11:09about technology that frustrate you and
11:11make you impatient.
11:13Don't lose that impatience. It'll create
11:16the next technology revolution and
11:18enable you to build things my generation
11:20could never dream of. the ability to ask
11:22a computer anything anywhere.
11:27Be impatient. That's okay. It'll create
11:30the progress the world needs. The
11:33important thing is to be open-minded so
11:35that you can find what you love. For me,
11:38it was technology. The more access my
11:42family had to technology, the better our
11:44lives got. So when I graduated, I knew I
11:47wanted to do something to bring
11:49technology to as many others as
11:51possible. At the time I thought I could
11:54achieve this by building better
11:56semiconductors.
11:58At that time you know I used to read
12:00about what was happening in Silicon
12:01Valley and you know I wanted to go be a
12:03part of it and at that same moment the
12:06internet was literally being built all
12:08around me. The year I arrived at
12:11Stanford was the same year the browser
12:13mosaic was released, which would
12:15popularize the worldwide web and the
12:17internet. The summer I left was the same
12:20summer that a graduate student named
12:22Sergey Brim met a prospective
12:24engineering student named Larry Page.
12:27These two moments would profoundly shape
12:29the rest of my life. But at the time, I
12:33didn't know it. It took me a while to
12:35realize that the internet would be the
12:37single best way to make technology
12:39accessible to more people. And as soon
12:41as I did, I changed course and decided
12:44to pursue my dreams at Google. So, you
12:47know, big part of what I focus on at any
12:49given time is, you know, making sure we
12:51are innovating and building products for
12:53the future. So, we are thinking about,
12:55you know, things like virtual reality or
12:57augmented reality. So, these are all new
12:58areas, but we've always had a very
13:01ambitious mission. uh you know we wanted
13:03to organize the world's information and
13:05make it universally accessible. We feel
13:07like we are in early days of that
13:08mission and you know so for us the
13:10journey is just getting started and I
13:13just want to make sure the next 30 years
13:15uh we are still able to work on problems
13:18which uh really work for people on a
13:21day-to-day basis. Uh hopefully at that
13:24point serve all of humanity in a
13:25profound way. So that's where I want to
13:27be. Uh you know it is a core part of at
13:29least what drew me to Google. I think
13:31the chance that we could work on
13:32products uh which would one day uh you
13:34know reach everyone in the world you
13:36know I didn't have access to computing
13:38growing up and once I got access to it I
13:41you know it changed my life and so I've
13:43always been interested in this is why we
13:45work on affordable Android smartphones
13:48or Chromebooks and being able to reach
13:50everyone I think it's a foundational
13:52part of what we do inspired by the
13:54wonder that first browser created in me
13:57I led the effort to launch one called
13:59Chrome in 2009 and drove the effort to
14:03help Google develop affordable laptops
14:06and phones so that a student growing up
14:08in any neighborhood or village in any
14:11part of the world could have the same
14:13access to information as all of you. Had
14:17I stayed the course in graduate school,
14:19I'd probably have a PhD today, which
14:21would have made my parents really proud,
14:24but I might have missed the opportunity
14:25to bring the benefits of technology to
14:27so many others. and I certainly wouldn't
14:30be standing here speaking to you as
14:32Google CEO.
14:34One of the thing I've noticed over time
14:36is you will have many many many
14:38opportunities to reinvent yourself and
14:41so uh you know so I think you know it's
14:43worthwhile taking risks trying to do
14:46something you're really uh you know
14:47excited by and if the first attempt you
14:50don't do it you know you can try again
14:51and you know things tend to work out in
14:53the long run you know in Silicon Valley
14:56you know uh you know part of the reason
14:57so many people start up a company is you
15:00know starting up a company and even
15:02having failed you know you can wear it
15:03like a badge of honor Right. And uh I
15:06think that's important you know
15:07culturally you know risk is rewarded. I
15:10remember when I started working at
15:11Google you know I if if I went and you
15:14know people were discussing ideas the
15:16other people who heard the ideas try to
15:18build on those ideas they encourage you.
15:20So it's a culture of optimism it's a
15:22culture of risk takingaking and I think
15:23that's really important. So you know
15:25move forward would be for me uh you know
15:28if I look at what is needed to solve the
15:31next generation of problems creativity
15:33is an important attribute uh I think so
15:36encouraging more creativity through the
15:38educational system today I do think our
15:40educational system values you know
15:42rigorous academic knowledge over uh
15:45necessary you know being more creative
15:46in how you approach education. I think
15:48that's important. Uh, another thing I
15:51would say is, and I think it, you know,
15:52I've seen it in the best schools in the
15:53US, etc. It's what I call it's very
15:55experiential, very hands-on. You know,
15:57people learn learn how to do things by
16:00doing them and not just by learning
16:02about them, right? And I think that's a
16:03big big difference. So uh you know to me
16:06so allowing a system in which there's a
16:09lot more creativity learning how to get
16:11things done by hand and you know much
16:13more of a project based experiential
16:15learning are all I think you know trends
16:17which the Indian educational system
16:18needs to adopt and and I also think it's
16:20important to teach students to take
16:22risks and uh you know and make making
16:25sure the system doesn't penalize for you
16:27to take risks and you know if you're
16:28different and so you know those are all
16:30attributes which I think are important
16:31you know when I see entrepreneurs here
16:33uh they seem no different to me uh than
16:36uh the kind of people I meet in the
16:37valley. So intrinsically I think India
16:40can do the same kinds of things and as
16:43the internet becomes more mainstream,
16:44people feel more confident. You have a
16:46much larger domestic market to tackle
16:49you know that'll give you the confidence
16:50to tackle not just a local market but
16:52global problems as well. So I think
16:54we're very well positioned.
16:56I mean the one good thing about India is
16:58I think you know um there's always been
17:01you know whenever in India I used to
17:03walk around and go to some remote corner
17:05and find a tea stall you know and uh you
17:07know I always felt there there is an
17:09entrepreneur there somewhere uh who saw
17:11that opportunity so I think that streak
17:13has always existed uh but I I do think
17:15this generation to your earlier point I
17:17think is less uh you know uh afraid to
17:20take risks and follow a conformist path
17:22which is good you always if you feel
17:24very comfortable in what you're doing
17:26you know I don't think you're pushing
17:27yourself enough and so I think it's you
17:30always want to strive to be in
17:31environments where you feel the people
17:33around you are a little bit better than
17:35you are you know there are definitely at
17:37times I've worked with amazing people at
17:39Google I've been in a room where I felt
17:41you know look I mean these people are
17:43better than me at what you know what
17:44they're doing and when you work with
17:46really good people what you just
17:48described is a you know it's a natural
17:50feeling to have you know in fact at
17:52Google we talk about this for many many
17:54new people sometimes times they come
17:56into Google and we we have a phrase for
17:58this we call this the imposttor syndrome
18:00people commonly say well I don't belong
18:02here because you know people around me
18:04seem uh very very good and I think any
18:06any elite institution I'm sure it's true
18:08at IAT here uh you know you're always
18:11surrounded by very good people and I
18:12think there are moments when you feel
18:13what you just described I think it's
18:15natural if anything I would say you
18:18almost always want to feel that all
18:19through your life because that means
18:21you're working with people who are very
18:23very good and uh you know and that's
18:25really important. So, so people explore
18:27different things and and find what
18:30they're really passionate about. So, I
18:31think those are all, you know, good
18:33things to aspire to. Uh, I think, you
18:35know, I would like to see, uh, people,
18:38you know, people value creativity, value
18:40experience of doing things, uh, taking
18:43risks and, uh, you know, academics is
18:46important, but it is not as important as
18:49it's also made made out to be. I think
18:51people should be encouraged to take
18:52risks a little bit more and and try
18:54different things till they find what
18:55they like doing. Yeah, I I think that
18:57matters a lot. So that's the bar. So
18:59anything we try to do, we we think of it
19:01that way. And so we aim high and you
19:04know and you want to aim high enough
19:05that you fail uh you know a few times. I
19:08think that's the natural part of the
19:09process. Uh in fact you know Larry used
19:12to say if you aim if you work on really
19:15difficult things you're better off
19:16because you have no competition. and
19:18others aren't working on uh that
19:20difficult a problem and even if you fail
19:22you end up doing something great in the
19:24process and so I think that's the
19:26philosophy which has guided us all
19:28through these years in Silicon Valley
19:30you know uh you know part of the reason
19:31so many people start up a company is you
19:34know starting up a company and even
19:36having failed you know you can wear it
19:37like a badge of honor right and uh and I
19:39think that's important you know
19:41culturally you know risk is rewarded so
19:44it's a culture of optimism it's a
19:45culture of risk-taking and I think
19:46that's really important So I think part
19:49of the problem is uh in India you know
19:52the the potential is there and the
19:54market is developing. I think it'll take
19:56a few more years for it to fully realize
19:58the potential and so I'm absolutely
20:00confident of it. I think there's a
20:02timing issue but I think you know we are
20:04growing well as a country. I I I think
20:06we need to stay at it continue doing all
20:08these things and it'll take a few more
20:10years and we'll get there. The trend
20:12lines are strongly in the favor. I think
20:15every year I can see the the rate at
20:16which things are changing. So in about
20:18three to four years, you know, I
20:19wouldn't be, you know, I'm pretty
20:21convinced at least in a 5 to 10 year
20:23time frame that there will be big global
20:26uh, you know, software companies coming
20:28out of India and we will be very used to
20:30it.
20:31I know how much hard work it takes to
20:34pursue a dream of building a business.
20:37the long hours, time away from family,
20:40the rejection, the ideas, you know, are
20:42brilliant that just don't seem to catch
20:44on. I'm absolutely convinced that India
20:49will be a global player in the digital
20:51economy and it'll be competitive with
20:53any country in the world. Uh
20:57so I've always felt that and I think you
21:00have all the foundations when I you know
21:02I've said this before when I interact
21:03with uh startups in India I find them
21:06world class in terms of how they
21:08approach things the entrepreneurs I run
21:10into their how they build products and
21:13so I'm absolutely confident of it. Uh
21:15there are many many different ways uh
21:17you know you can approach things and
21:19what matters most is you know loving
21:21what you're doing and uh and trying to
21:23do well at it. I think it's important to
21:24follow your dream and do something which
21:27you're uh you know excited by. Uh you
21:30know so I think if you follow your heart
21:31and do what you like, you will always do
21:33much better. Uh and so I don't think it
21:35matters that you're an engineer or uh
21:38you're a you know you're in science or
21:40it could be in any field. We're all
21:42looking to you. The world is counting on
21:44you and we can't wait to see what you
21:47build next. I know you're getting a lot
21:49of advice today. So let me leave you
21:51with mine. Be open. Be impatient. Be
21:55hopeful. If you can do that, history
21:58will remember not for what you lost, but
22:01for what you changed. You have the
22:03chance to change everything. I'm
22:05optimistic you will. Thank you.
22:09[Music]
22:13[Applause]
22:16[Music]

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