Elon Musk USC Commencement Speech | USC Marshall School of Business Undergraduate Commencement 2014 

1. Work SUPER hard 2. Gather/Join great people full of talent and work ethic 3. Pay attention to SIGNAL, not noise 4. Don't follow the trend 5. Take risks now when you're young and don't have much obligation

You have Elon on campus after all the LA traffic, and you give him less than 5 minutes (with pretty bad sound recording). He is visibly under prepared by any standard, but his sheer presence let me feel my tuition paid off lol.

I was beaming with pride at my daughter's graduation from USC Business School, my alma mater. I was thrilled to hear Elon Musk speak. He was fantastic. Elon is a shinning example that "high beta" people(aka risk takers) move the world forward. 3X he was near personally bankrupt by his companies that became huge successes. In the one failure and your done forever world that I come from it is refreshing to see a risk taker succeed spectacularly 3X from near business death. Lesson here is pain that doesn't make you weak or kill you makes you experienced, stronger and better and someone to take a chance on. I would back Elon in any venture.

The crowd is ecstatic and that was only 2014 Elon Musk imagine to have 2021 Elon Musk.

Got to appreciate the raw candidness….he is still that same person …8 years later and billions $ later Fight on !

Take risks and do something bold you won't regret it.

how could you possibly put this legend into a stifling box of 5 minutes he deserves eternity

I think he was a bit nervous, perhaps unprepared. But fuck it, he's Elon Musk, he can do whatever he wants.

you only give this guy 6 minutes. this is pathetic. he should be given 1 hour.

1. Work Super Hard 2. Attract Great People 3. Stop the efforts if they are not resulting (in better product or service) 4. Focus on signal over noise 5. Don't just Follow trend 6. First Principles Thinking 7. Take risks now do something bold you won't regret it

These two quotes.... "So, work hard, like, every waking hour. " "Rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine, and then you reason up from there. And this is a good way to figure out if something really makes sense, or is it just what everybody else is doing. It’s hard to think that way, you can’t think that way about everything. It takes a lot of effort. But if you’re trying to do something new, it’s the best way to thing. And that framework was developed by physicists to figure out counter intuitive things, like quantum mechanics. It’s really a powerful, powerful method. "

wish the volume was higher

Even if you’re not successful it’ll be worth it

I wish Elon Musk would run for governor of California.

For People who are don't have time to watch the entire video. 1) Work super hard in the initial stage of the company. 2) Gather great people. 3) Focus on products more than advertising. 4) Don't just follow trends, have a first-principles approach. Physics or Psychology 5) Take risks when you're young cause you don't have the burden of the family, especially kids.

It's great how as great of a achievement and business as paypal is, it just get swept under the table compared to his other accomplishments.

Incredible! I’m proud he spoke here

This guy is so dedicated loved the video ❤️ .

OMG luckiest class ever

Christopher Walken is amazing.

Elon Musk for president.

It is incredible to think about his humble beginnings.

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who would have guessed that 6 years later elon would be come the richest person on the planet and among the most influential too

@4:21 Rather than reasoning by analogy, boil things down to the fundamentals of truth. Reason from smallest to biggest. Principles of physics, also the derivative of all knowledge - Philosophy

Only 6 minutes!?If this were my commencement,I would like to listen to his speech for hours rather than listening principal and other guys talking trash...

Musk's speech was right to the point. He lives in SoCal . Fight On!

Elon the god

Thats dedication! Girl had to stay at the office! haha! They should have gave Elon, more time!!

Now is the time for taking Risk 🔥

I feel lucky to be a part of that

Best speech I’ve heard💪🏻💪🏻 but i wonder why he was stuttering

Smartest Guy On the earth

Elon is awesome.

Does anyone know what he was referring to in the fourth point- when he talked about working out things from bottom to top and relying on analogies, and its relation to thinking employed in quantum mechanics? I think I have a fuzzy idea of what he means, but I'm not totally sure...

whats up with the volume? turn that shit up

He is a terrible speaker, but he is a hero.

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is it only me who thinks the volume is way off🙃 tho

What a legend

🙏🙏🙏

I can barely hear him, even with my volume at max!

Too bad he only talked for 6 minutes :/

luved it

🙂❤️🔥🔥🔥

Could it be that in this day and age you don't *need* to spend on traditional advertising?

take risks and do something bold..

Great

Elon musk"God of humanity "

pretty cool for marshall school

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Yes! I came from Wikipedia

Elon Musk? 2014?

Who else is here for English Online?

1:45

Who is watching this after Elon Musk becomes World's Richest Person?

The first person who crossed $300Billons

#elonmusk

He looks very tired. Hope he can get more time for himself!

USC: Meh, let's get some random billionaire doing some hype stuff and give less than 5 minutes to speak. 7 years later...

Please increase the sound on this video.

What did he say at 5:27

Elon is so cute.

Hahaha yes awesome thank you keep this here forever grateful. Elle. However! #regret my science notes on physics twitter ? Is that too prompt? 👂

How do you get your product out there if you dont spend money on advertisement?

Good advice, I guess, but it's not very strong as a commencement speech

He was never nervous, he just always talked like that. This guy stutters a lot.

100 hours a week doesn't equate to double the work compared to someone working 50, especially for creative/knowledge areas. I could be working 50 and getting things done much more precisely compared to 100 hour-weeks full of mistakes and blunders.

Sound is low

Five minutes USC? Is Musk a job applicant on an elevator pitch?!

Wouldn't agree with him on getting twice more done with twice more time spent, efficiency doesnt work like that

at the end (6.11) elon says "that was awful" :D

4:44 📚🗃️📝

Oh my gosh is this real

He probably slept 4 hrs before coming

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he seems nervous.

I was in the audience when he gave this speech at USC. I remember being very annoyed at him for making his girlfriend sleep in the office. That part of the speech rolled around in my brain for weeks.

Stuttering shows intelligence, his brain is working while he talking.

6:08 that blonde is a ten

wtf elon was there

Ruthless businessmen? Yes. Innovator and friend of the people? Nope. Just ask him on his views of competing alternative energy vehicle brands/technology like hydrogen and any other electric car that doesn't get him paid.

he is not a good public speaker

I am a Trojan class of 2014. This was such a huge disappointment. We were so stoked that our commencement speaker is Elon Musk. He was in every way unprepared and rude for not being prepared.

I'm so disappointed! None of this guy said made sense.