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 Hi, everybody. Furthermore, congrats to the Class of 2020,as well as your folks, your educators, and each and every individual who assisted you with getting this day. I never envisioned I'd be giving a commencementspeech with no live crowd … from my terrace. However, it's giving me a lot further understandingfor what our YouTube Creators experience! Furthermore, I positively never suspected I'd be sharinga virtual stage with a previous President ... a First Lady, a Lady Gaga, and a Queen Bey … notto notice BTS. I don't think this is the graduation ceremonyany of you envisioned. When you should celebrate allthe information you've picked up, you might be lamenting what you've lost: the moves youplanned, the positions you procured, and the encounters you were anticipating. In disheartening minutes like these, it tends to be difficultto discover trust. So let me jump right to the end and tell youwhat occurs: you will win. That is not generally the finish of the speech,so don't get excessively energized. The explanation I realize you'll win is becauseso numerous others have done it before you. 100 years back, the class of 1920 graduatedinto the finish of a dangerous pandemic. Fifty years prior, the class of 1970 graduatedin the middle of the Vietnam War. Also, almost 20 years back, the class of 2001graduated only months before 9/11. There are outstanding models this way. They needed to conquer new difficulties, and inall cases they won. The long curve of history reveals to us we have everyreason to be confident. Thus, be cheerful. There's an intriguing pattern I've noticed:It's regular for each age to belittle the capability of the followingone. This is on the grounds that they don't understand that theprogress of one age turns into the primary reason for the following. Furthermore, it takes another arrangement of individuals to come alongand understand all the potential outcomes. I grew up absent a lot of admittance to innovation. We didn't get our first phone until Iwas 10. I didn't have ordinary admittance to a computeruntil I came to America for graduate school. Also, our TV, when we at long last got one,only had one channel. So envision how awestruck I am today to bespeaking to you on a stage that has a huge number of channels. On the other hand, you grew up with PCs ofall shapes and sizes. The capacity to ask a PC anything, anyplace—thevery thing I've spent my last decade dealing with—isn't astounding to you. That is OK, it doesn't cause me to feel bad,it makes me confident! There are likely things about technologythat disappoint you and make you fretful. Try not to lose that restlessness. It will make the following innovation revolutionand empower you to construct things my age would never dream of. You might be similarly as disappointed by my generation'sapproach to environmental change, or training. Be restless. It will make the advancement the world necessities. You will improve the world in your ownways. Regardless of whether you don't know precisely how. The significant thing is to be receptive soyou can discover what you love. As far as I might be concerned, it was innovation. The more access my family needed to technology,the better our lives got. So when I graduated, I realized I needed to dosomething to carry innovation to whatever number others as could be allowed. At that point, I figured I could accomplish thisby assisting work with bettering semiconductors. That is to say, what could be more energizing than that? My dad spent what might be compared to a year'ssalary on my boarding pass to the U.S. so I could go to Stanford. It was my first time ever on a plane. Be that as it may, when I in the long run arrived in California,things weren't as I had envisioned. America was costly. A call back home was more than $2 aminute, and a rucksack cost equivalent to my father's month to month compensation in India. Furthermore, for all the discussion about the warm Californiabeaches ... that water was freezing cold! On top of all that, I missed my family, myfriends, and my sweetheart—presently my better half—back in India. Sundar as a Stanford graduate studentA splendid spot for me during this time was figuring. Without precedent for my life, I could usea PC at whatever point I needed to. It totally knocked my socks off. Furthermore, at that equivalent second, the web wasliterally being fabricated surrounding me. The year I showed up at Stanford was the sameyear the program Mosaic was delivered, which would promote the internet and theinternet. The mid year I left was a similar summer thata graduate understudy named Sergey Brin met a forthcoming designing understudy named LarryPage. These two minutes would significantly shape therest of my life. However, at that point, I didn't have any acquaintance with it. It took me some time to understand that the internetwould be the absolute most ideal approach to make innovation available to more individuals. When I did, I changed course and decidedto seek after my fantasies at Google. Roused by the miracle that first browsercreated in me, I drove the work to dispatch one—called Chrome—in 2009, and drove theeffort to assist Google with creating reasonable workstations and telephones so an understudy growing up, inany neighborhood or town, in any piece of the world, could have a similar admittance to informationas every one of you. Elementary school understudies in the city of DoloresHidalgo in Mexico Had I finished what had been started in alumni school,I'd most likely have a Ph.D. today—which would have made my folks truly pleased. However, I may have botched the chance tobring the advantages of innovation to so numerous others. Furthermore, I unquestionably wouldn't be standing herespeaking to you as Google's CEO. Trust me when I state I saw none of this comingwhen I initially landed in the territory of California 27 years back. The lone thing that got me from here to there—otherthan karma—was a profound energy for innovation, and a receptive outlook. So set aside the effort to discover what excitesyou more than everything else on the planet. Not the thing your folks need you to do. Or on the other hand what every one of your companions are doing. Or then again that society expects of you. I realize you're getting a great deal of counsel today. So let me leave you with mine:Be open … be fretful … be cheerful. On the off chance that you can do that, history will rememberthe Class of 2020 not for what you lost, but rather for what you changed. You get the opportunity to make a huge difference. I am idealistic you will. Much obliged to you.