Engineer . Publicrelations driver. Im thinking about pursuing publicrelations and a parttime driver. Congratulations. The trophies are bigger than you. Screwed over so we can see them. Barry go. There we go. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] houseday the white announcing new environmental rules of dealing with carbon emissions. This comes with perils that will limit the amount of gases power plants are allowed to admit which could shift the u. S. Away from using coal, treating a fight with states that produce electricity. Most significant u. S. Environmental regulation in decades but it is not exactly what the white house wanted. The rope is a compromise for president obama. Will rely on executive powers to deal with the singul e largest source of pollution. Power plants produce about 40 of the Collector City and 33 of the carbon pollution. It is the second largest amateur of greenhouse gases. It falls far short here at that again from the associated press. The president talks about limiting carbon emissions. You can watch that later today here on cspan. Were bringing you commencement speeches. Next we will hear from marc benioff at the university of southern california. He is a graduate of usc. Work on early his Cloud Computing technology and some of the life lessons he learned from a spiritual guru in india. His remarks are about 20 minutes. [applause] thank you. Good morning, trojans. Thank you for having me here. It is great to be with you today. What a gorgeous day this is. Thank you for addressing me as the Worlds Largest commencement anglin. That is fantastic to be here. Congratulations to this great class of 2014. Congratulations to all of you. I really do not remember my graduation. Congratulations to a. I really do not remember my graduation. I kind of remember sitting out been aut it might have late night at the 90. Late nightve been a at my fraternity house. It probably was. Him i have been many things but i do not remember my graduation. April asked me, have this great opportunity to speak all over the world. I get to talk to folks about technology. I will tell you there is asked me because i tell them i went to usc create how did you choose usc . Them it was simple. My mom went here. My mom went to usc. She started here in 1957. Mom knows best. Congratulations to the parents of the class of. 14. Congratulations to my mother. I loved it here. I was loved being here. I was loved being here on this beautiful campus and i loved the incredible student body and going out to the athletic games. I loved the fraternity lifestyle. I love my Marshall School of business and my entrepreneur program. I loved all the great musical programs and dance programs and all the great things we have it usc that make us a special and unique. I will tell you i love the student body here. I love the diversity of it. I love the meritocracy of it. I love the spirituality of it. Moree that it usc we have catholics than that notre dame. Which i think is a college in the midwest. Is that right . Jews here then brandeis. More hindus here and theres a lot of people like me who are grateful to god for this glorious day. I will tell you i was sitting out here not so long ago but life does go fast and i made an unusual decision. I was graduating on a friday just like you are here and monday i started work. I was ready to hit it. I was ready to get going. Ready to make it happen. Inspiredivated, i was by my Commencement Speaker and i was ready to go. Monday i started at the Software Company called oracle corporation. This little Software Company. I got up there and they were excited and they were inspired. Worked and ast you heard i had some Great Success there. I was the youngest bp and i went on and created some great products create a decade went by after my graduation. Life goes fast. 0 years went by people are always overestimating what you can do in a year and underestimate what happens in a decade. A decade went by and all of a sudden i felt a little bit weird. I felt kind of unmotivated, an energized, not very excited. Not very inspired. I was kind of in a bad mood. Kind of grumpy. A little bit pissed off. Boss. In and talked to my i am not feeling that great. I need to take some time off. He said go for it. Good idea. Very supportive. Thirtysomething and i did what all lust thirtysomethings do. I went to india. And i tookto india with me one of my really good friends and we were touring india. He was born in new delhi but he had never been to india and i wanted to go to india. I was going to make good use of it. We had all these great cities from the north to the south to the east and the west. Something amazing happened. Hut and up in a little and wee area of india were sitting in a little hut with a guru. Saint. Edible female all the saints in the south are female. We were confessing our lives and worries and concerns and our exide hes and fierce and talking about life and what we and we wanteded to change and we were on our quest. Theyre sitting there in that hut and it was kind of fun and amazing at the same time. , monks were flickering were chanting. To he was getting ready start this new Venture Capital company. He took out his Business Plan therearted reading it and were going to be social networks and everything would get connected together. She sat there so patiently for an hour. It was great. I was inspired. She turned him and said this while you were working hard to change the world, i am sure that will all come to pass. Do not forget to do something for others and he was kind of taken aback a little bit and i felt like she was talking to me. I found whatt like i was looking for. She said do not forget about other people. Well we are doing this hard work. While we are changing the world. Do not forget about others who well takene less care of them we are here. We left create the next day was our time to go home and that night we were on a rice vote on arabian waters of the sea and were eating our vegetarian meal going down this incredible river talking about that. Businessis incredible and Technology Life and we have these amazing degrees and were putting it into action. On the at the life we have this rebirth desire to do something for others. Our challenge is how were going to put this together. How are we going to put this together and we really had no. Dea we went back to san francisco. I went back to my post at oracle and he went off to start his company. Just as i arrived back a got a phone call. It was a facebook call to attend something called the american summit for the future. It was in philadelphia. It was incredible. I arrived in this huge Conference Room and it was being colin powell. Eral was representing ronald reagan. The general came up and he came up on stage and stood at the podium and everyone in the audience were the ceos and leaders of these major corporations. I looked around and i thought i am in some incredible company. I recognize these faces. And general powell stood up and he said, ladies and gentlemen, i bringt you here today to you something important. Milton friedman was wrong. Thatess is not business your companies, your organizations are some of the richest, most powerful resources we have in our great countries. But we need to do and he went on is we need to tap into your employees and we need to tap into your product. And everything that is going on in your organizations and you need to get out there and help our boys and girls clubs and ymcas and build safe places and do mentoring and tutoring for you to can integrate her corporations with the community that they exist in. You do not have walls around to hear that separate you from those that you are living next to. It was inspiring. He ended it and he said, just remember this area to get out there and do something for the people. Said, wow, i have a second guru. Hearing this and now i am in philadelphia hearing the same message and i said to myself, i think i am getting at here. I am understanding what is coming through me. I tell you what. And i back to oracle talked to my boss and said we have to create the foundation and do everything that general powell said that he said you are right and were going to do it. I found myself in the day, morning time putting computers in in schools and wearing them and training teachers and working with kids. In the afternoon i was Building Products and markets and ichnology and it was awesome. Think this is what i want to do. I kind of have both things going on. This is exciting. Then i got a call from general powell. Mcfarlandjust adopted middle school in washington, d. C. You need to go put those computers in there and i said yes sir, general. I will get it done. Engineersy three top and 100 computers and we set them all out there and they were ready and it was a hot day out there when they arrived. Hot like this. Maybe hotter. About 110 degrees out. They had to bring those computers up three flights of stairs and we have called our local office to make sure there were employees there to help them. And then i, maryland got a call from jim. He said i got a problem. I said what is it . Computers. Got the i am here. The guys are here. The employees are not here. I do not know how we will get these up three flights of stairs and installed. I was worried and dejected i said i had better call general powell and tell him this will not happen. I got on the phone and called and i said general, we got the computers there and we got our engineers but the last day in the quarter and our employees could not get there and we will have to reschedule. I was asking for his forgiveness and the phone hung up on me. I said hello, general . He was not there. It was over and i felt so bad. Powell, onegeneral of the great americans. I sat there at my desk and i said maybe i got this all wrong. Trying to do this and put it all together and here i am and i just upset general powell. And then the phone rang again and answered the phone and it was jim. He said mark, a battalion of marines just arrived here and mcfarland middle school. They are installing the computers and we are fit to go. I said it is good to be a general. I learned something that day. What i learned is that if youre going to connect your business and your philanthropy you better make sure that it is integrated deep into your culture. It is not just something you will tack on. Build an integrated business. You will get these things to work, people together. You can do it. When i started my company i decided to do three things. Cloud computing. A radically new business model, Subscription Services for software. New philanthropy model. Of equity and profit and employee time into a 501 c 3 public charity. We had no products or equity or people. Today salesforce. Com is doing great. We will do a billion dollars in revenue. Were heading into the fortune 500. The top 500 companies in the world. Admiredthe most Software Company for 2014. We are forbes most Innovative Company in the world for three years in a row and where the best face to work number seven this year in the world. Place,re the best work number seven this year in the world. salesforce. Com is my email address. Todayput that model in so i am proud to be able to tell you that we have given away more than 600,000 hours of Community Service this year. We have even away 50 million in grants and we run more than 20,000 notforprofit and ngos. And that was deep into our culture. Firstalso tell you on the day of employment our new employees command and we show them where the desk is and where the kitchen is and they do something for someone else. They go out and learn that salesforce is a company that is about building great technologies and being innovative and creating new markets and also giving back and doing it simultaneously. That integrated by for so important. Because the real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Othing will make you happier you will love to come back many years from now and always remember this great day and your great time here at usc. Perhaps one of the very greatest of all the universities in the world. The most useful universities in the world. Look around at these beautiful faces. And all this incredible joy. One of the things that is most beautiful about usc is its commitment to service. They delivered 760 5000 hours of Community Service. Thats what makes this community so great. 756,000 hours. [applause] today, wero then here drove through when we all drove through here today, we drove through some high fences and high fences and highgate. Only a few blocks from here are some of the most impoverished people in the world. Commitment to others is so important and everlasting. Dont let those walls be a life. Or for your own get out there and do something for others. Fight on, trojans [applause] figure at this years john hopkins university. She quit her job and became at google pioneering google image and google books. She became ceo of youtube earlier this year. She told the story of how it was started in her home garage and how to face failure. [applause] good morning, johns hopkins. Its a beautiful day. There is no rain. Ive never checked the weather is much as i have this past week. Thank you, president daniels, for inviting me here to share this special day with all of you. Weather is much as i have this past week. You, president daniels, for inviting me here to share this special day with all of you. Im honored to be here to share this with you. Congratulations to the board of trustees, esteemed faculty, all the proud parents, supporting friends and family, but bigcially lets give a congratulations to the blue jay class of 2014. [applause] ive thought long and hard about what i wanted to say to all of you here today. I thought about my own commencements beaker, lessons veryed, and after thinking deeply about it, i