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Last month there was an earthquake in Silicon Valley. Nobody died; it wasn't even recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey, but the foundations shook, people looked at each other in horror, and the landscape changed shape. Instagram, a free cell phone photography app written by two former Stanford students, was bought for $1 billion by Facebook. $1 billion.
Where do disruptive ideas come from? Commencement speech for the 2012 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Marc Levoy Stanford University May 12, 2012 Here is UNC's version of the speech, with more photos like the one above. And here is the video . Last month there was an earthquake in Silicon Valley. Nobody died; it wasn't even recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey, but the foundations shook, people looked at each other in horror, and the landscape changed shape. Instagram, a free cell phone photography app written by two former Stanford students, was bo
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