“Zuckerberg originally intended to return to Harvard, but the immediate success of the enterprise led him to devote his full energy to the company,” the university said in a release announcing his naming as commencement speaker.
In a recent appearance on Bloomberg Television, Harvard President Drew Faust called Zuckerberg’s return “a great moment for everybody to celebrate him and to remind ourselves of the many ways in which we have been innovators and will continue to be innovators.”
Given Zuckerberg’s departure from Harvard, “we” might be a bit of a stretch. For its part, Harvard understands it could be more electrifying to the tech-minded. Harvard has opened three entrepreneur-focused centers in recent years, including the Innovation Lab, which is dedicated to student tech entrepreneurs. Zuckerberg was clearly in mind.
As I-Lab Managing Director Jodi Goldstein said in a 2015 interview with Quartz: “Students don’t need to drop out now.”
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