Qaeda in iraq and syria. How we address these challenges today will greatly affect your generation tomorrow. The agreements we sign, the solutions we put in place, you will inherit. You will own them. How will they affect the way the world sees america . How they affect your relationship with the Global Community . If you believe, like i believe that the United States is stronger as an engaged constructive partner, how you strengthen connections with people around the world and break down barriers to improve the world around you will determine what you will really say in the year 2060. When you stand at this podium in 2050 2060, the world will be a very different place. Your advice to graduates will likely be unpredictable by what is true today. The world you are inheriting today is smaller, more popular more populated and more inpatient for instant gratification in the world my generation inherited. When you deliver that commencement address in 2060, what we save about the ethics of genetics and robotics . How will you address the challenges posed by religion, cultural distance cultural differences and the threats of Global Health . Will you have visited mars by then . How will you make yourself relevant when Technology Makes your job obsolete . Will you live longer than me due to access to greater medical treatments . W do with an extra 30 years what will you do with the next 30 years of productive life . You will be living those years alongside more than 9 billion people who will populate the world by the time you give that address. It is also predicted that by 2043 no ethnic group will constitute a majority of the population, making the United States a truly plural nation. Will these demographic screech stress . Will a more diverse foster greater innovation . Will the internet continue . Will the continue as it is today and will be the impact of society as a result . What will the University Look like in 2060 . Where learning be all virtual . More than any other generation before you you will need to address the inevitable consequences of globalization protectionism, nationalism aggression and other actions that divide. In the next four decades of the century, you will share all of these issues with all the people of the world. I urge you to think about the words of president obama from a speech in cairo in 2009. Recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared. Our failure to meet them will hurt us all for we have learned from recent experience that when a Financial System weakens in one country, prosperity is heard everywhere prosperity is hurt everywhere. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. When one nation can persists a nuclear weapon, the threat of when violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountain, people are endangered across an ocean. When innocence in bosnia and r four are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience in darfur are slaughtered, it is a stain on our collective conscience. I have great confidence that you will act boldly. That you are more capable than any other generation before you to lead us into the future and share the world in the 21st century. Eu, your children and grandchildren will understand better than all of us that came before you the challenges that you will share with the rest of the world. I tell my six grandchildren ages seven to 11, that they will witness and participate in a new era of invention entrepreneurship and innovation that will change the course of history. As you ponder these questions think about the tools you will need to sustain our america with its greatness and dont be afraid to use them to engage and challenge the complacency and not be afraid of change. It is essential for survival. Congratulations to all of you the class of 2015. When you get home, thank your grandparents and great grandparents. That great generation that made it possible for me to be here, for you to be here and have made it possible for your future generations to be here as well. Thank them for what they did for us and god bless all of you. Congratulations or if god bless the United States of america. [applause] former hulu ceo jason kilar is a 1993 graduate of unc. Mr. Kilar now runs a Service Called vessel. This is 20 minutes. Mr. Kilar before i begin, i have to capture this with a selfie. You on the left, moving just a little bit. Holler and we will catch a selfie. [applause] [applause] mr. Kilar ok. Uncselfie. Thank you chancellor fulton. Thank you members of the faculty and members of the board of trustees. Thank you for the kind welcome. It is an honor to address you today and to congratulate the graduating class of 2015. [applause] mr. Kilar thats right. Today is mothers day. None of this would be happening today if not for your mothers love and the estimated 51,392 hours of labor that was required collectively of your mothers to bring your graduating classes Smiling Faces into this world. [applause] mr. Kilar thank you mothers. This is a spectacular day in your lives. One that will prove to be among the most memorable of lifes mileposts. Im excited to be here given that i too went to the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. [applause] mr. Kilar my freshman year, i lived in the architectural triumph that is hidden james dormitory. [applause] mr. Kilar i am a product of the Kenan Flagler undergraduate Business School. In addition, i am also a product of unc paths school of journalism and mass communications. Which is soon to be rebranded uncs school of media and journalism which i think is a fantastic moment of change for the school. It has been a pleasure to be back on campus this weekend and to be welcomed by chancellor full with a hospitality that we found nowhere else on earth. You all have been mighty kind. [laughter] mr. Kilar it must be said that this year, rather than choosing from any number of nobel prize laureates or political luminaries to be your commencement speaker, you have chosen me, but guide best known for making it easier to watch recent episodes of south park and family guy. [laughter] mr. Kilar assuming there were no jedi mind tricks involved, it is clear to me that you have moxie. I would like to share my story with you this morning. I share it in the hope that you may find some benefits. It is a story of dreams, failure and loss. Perseverance and one unfortunate runin with the authorities in southern california. In any event, my story goes like this. In 1993, i sat in the same liters you currently find yourselves in the same bleachers you currently find yourselves in. , excited to graduate. My mother and father were there in and joined the pageantry. That day, my parents got to meet the girl i was dating months or i started dating months earlier. Perhaps you are experiencing similar moments on campuses morning. In the months prior to my graduation, i did everything i could to land a job in the machinery of hollywood. My dream, dating back to when i was a kid, was to follow in the footsteps of walt disney. I had always been fascinated by stories well told and how disney Leveraged Technology in the interest of making them better. For most of my senior year here i wrote to every executive i could in hollywood, the sum total of five months of letter writing, phone calling was a cavalcade of knows those lucky to get a reply of nos if i was lucky enough to get a reply. Universal studios a few days after my graduation. I was not off to a great start but i was hopeful that things would improve. Soon after my Graduation Ceremony ended at Kenan Stadium that sunday, i kiss my girlfriend goodbye and gave big hugs to my mother and father. I made the crosscountry drive in my 1982 subaru hatchback in record time. Trying to make an impact in los angeles doing something that i loved. This is where the story veers from the expected. It is the first ive shared it. A day after arriving in los angeles and on the heels of my informational interview at universal studios, my mother tearfully but bravely shared the news over the phone that my dad had taken his life. He was 47. Kind, loving husband of 27 years. Proud and wonderful father to six children. Accomplished refreshable, having put best accomplished professional, having put himself through school. The man i admired most, who tautly so much was gone from this world who taught me so much was gone from this world afte, three days after i saw him in this very stadium. That movie production job did not work out the way i hoped. I was hired but soon let go. This was also the time that i learned, with the help of the Northridge California Police Department that the cal state northridge parking deck was not looking to welcome recent College Graduates living out of their subaru hatchbacks each night. I soon found myself working for a temp agency back on the east coast installing shelving at a tj maxx that was undergoing renovation. I was personally lost and professionally about as far from my dreams as one could be. I mention this part of my story because i want all of you, the graduating class of 2015, to know that in your moment of personal and professional adversity that are sure to come, you will not be alone. [applause] mr. Kilar everyone in this stadium, everyone it turns out in this world, has struggled and will struggle with personal loss and professional failure. Adversity is a necessary and important part of life. Adversity strengthens us in believing it is your journey through the valleys that will define the. Back when my dad died, i took a cue from how my mom had always persevered through adversity. For 30 years she helped my dad successfully battle manicdepressive disorder. In that noble and successful fight, she chose to face adversity with courage, with kindness, and with optimism. I picked myself up eventually in the summer of 1993, making an important observation along the way. When things get tough i believe that we as a species surprise ourselves with how much strength we have deep within. Strength that we may never have previously known or been aware of. In the most trying times in unimaginable circumstances, that well of strength can be drawn upon. We find that we can persevere. You can persevere. This leads me to the second part of my story and this is a story about doing what you love, about taking risks, and never stopping. I will be the first to admit that my career is not for most people and has been filled with unusual moments of taking risks. I got my first real job at the Walt Disney Company by drawing myself into a comic strip rather than sending a resume. Upon graduating from Business School in 1997, with the debt level that approximated slovenias Gross Domestic Product [laughter] mr. Kilar it is true. I jumped into a Small Private Company in the Pacific Northwest that was trying to sell stuff over the internet. About that Internet Company my friends and family thought i was insane to go there given the uncertainty and the traditional opportunities i would be for going foregoing. I was intoxicated by a very simple thing that this company offered. [laughter] mr. Kilar bad choice of words huh . After college, the word intoxicated has different meaning. [laughter] mr. Kilar this was a mission not a job. Yes, there was risk and yes the company could have ended up belly up. But it did not. The Small Company i joined was called amazon that i was able to learn for nine years from one of the finest leaders of our time in jeff bezos. I took a risk to do something i love and passionately believed in and i am very glad i did. Doing what you love, pursuing your own path, is often the most unsettling option of the outset. The path that others have trouble before you, those are the path that have better visibility. They play better with your neighbors, but do not fall for it. You are better than that and you have the strength to go your own way. Remember, i know that each of you has moxie by the bucket loads. I made the decision in 2007 to jump into a new chapter. This time to build a team from day one and to help build a company with a mission to reimagine how Television Programming was delivered. We decided to call the company hulu in the early days ahead of. The launch, but the company and my decision to lead and help building were very publicly considered truly horrible, terrible ideas. We were called clownco by the people of silicon valley. A digital counter ran on a website to truck just how many days it was going to take for the company to implode. It is true. The early days of hulu were among the toughest of my career. I kept reminding myself of that phrase attributed to winston churchill. When you are going through hell, keep going. [laughter] mr. Kilar but here is the thing i cannot emphasize enough you here today. Most people do run into in life, including the smart ones, they will be averse to new things. They certainly were in my experience at julio and amazon. Huyllu and amazon. New is scary. New is the unknown. Most everyone does not believe that the new will work until it does. If you think the world is broken in a certain way, and you have a great idea to fix it, do yourself a favor and follow your convictions relentlessly. The path i described will be an uncertain want. But dont let the fear of uncertainty of not having all the answers, be the thing that hold you back from pursuing your dreams. At your age it is very natural to have somebody questions. Who will i be . What i want to do . Where should i live . What makes me happy . It easy to feel alone in this uncertainty. To feel bad that you do not have all the answers and all the details figured out, even know it seems like your friends do. As you get older you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that