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Good afternoon.

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The first thing I'd like to do

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is deeply and profoundly apologize to you

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for not being able to speak to you in your native language Mandarin.

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It took me 57 years of my life

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to find the vision and the passion

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that is driving me 24/7

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which is all about culture and about language.

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So I'm gonna take a few minutes

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to run over 57 years

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to tell you how I got to the point

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where the rest of my life is being driven by what I've learned.

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This is my business card right now.

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"dotsub", up until recently, was my 9th and I thought my last start up.

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And two and a half years ago,

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I hired a CEO,

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and his card was gonna say CEO

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so I had to figure out

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a title to put on my card.

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So very whimsically,

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I said: "I'll be a collector of puzzle pieces."

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So as you could see,

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without alot of thought: founder, chairman, collector of puzzle pieces.

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My wife thought that was the stupidest thing she's ever seen.

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Many people that I gave my card to didn't understand it.

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"Are you in the puzzle business?"

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But let me show you what business I am in.

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I have very privileged to have a home

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on the water in Long Island.

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And on the flagpole,

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I have cleats for 6 flags.

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And when Jason was there with a bunch of other people

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about the project that I'm going to explain,

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I always buy a flag of the country

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from which all of my house guests come.

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So that day we had people from 5 countries at my house.

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You have no idea how deep and profound the appreciation is.

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People come to the house and they see their flag

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and they cry.

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Because very few people

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really understand the importance of

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cultural communication and cultural awareness.

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And so, that's what my vision in life is,

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which I'll explain to you: to remove languages as a barrier to

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cross culture communication.

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Something I've learned in last day and a half

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is with my headphone on with much of the talks in Mandarin,

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I hear a lot of loud laughter in the room.

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But when I am hearing the translation,

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I don't understand what's funny.

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And these are the best interpreters in the world.

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This is really tough to communicate in another language.

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And with technology as it is,

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with innovation as it is,

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and MOOCs and everything else,

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it is critically important that all 7 [billion] people of the world

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in all 7 thousand languages

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have the ability to profoundly and deeply

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learn the knowledge that is currently available

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with current technology.

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New technology does not want to be

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need to be the technology is there

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but we all have to have the culture awareness.

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Now what I'd like to do,

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This was Jason at my house 3 months ago

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I'd like all of us to give him an

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amazing round of thanks for doing

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what he's done right now.

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From the time I was 10 till the time of 57,

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and I'm 66 right now,

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I would say I wandered the planet. When I was 10 years old,

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for four years I studied Hebrew

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and I studied Latin.

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Have no idea why. Hebrew was because I was being bar mitzvah

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Latin is because I guess it was a thing to do.

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And then in 10th grade,

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I started studying German. And I was a fluent speaker in German.

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And in college i don't know why I did it,

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I signed up for a program in the Mindanao Island

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in the southern Philippines.

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And when I was 19 years old,

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learned how to speak Tagalog fluently.

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so my first trip outside of the United States on this journey

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was the Mindanao island in the southern Philippines

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as being a visiting professor in mathematics.

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And at that time, it took me 40 years to

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understand this,

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I was infected with the cross-culture disease.

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Now today and the talk and yesterday

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a lot of people half of my age

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are talking about their vision and their life vision.

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I feel fortunate in one hand

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that I have it, I'm passionate about it.

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But I wish it had happened earlier,

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