So I made it to Harvard.

Never thought I'd be able to say that in my life, but it feels good.

Thank you, Dr. Counter, thank you to the Harvard Foundation, and thank you, Harvard University,

for this great honor.

Thank you.

I'm incredibly humbled by this

to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that,

in truth, I've never wanted credit for.

When I was five or six years old,

I remember watching TV, and I would see

these commercials, and I was watching other children suffer in other parts of the world,

and, you know, the commercials where they, you know, you could

give 25 cents and save a child's life, and, you know,

and I would think to myself, like, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up

to save all the kids in Africa.

And I would say to myself, you know, like, when I grow up, and I can get rich,

and I'm going to save kids all over the world,

I just didn't know I would be in the position to do that by the time I was a teenager.

As 17, I started my career here in America,

and by the age of 18, I started my first charity