{"id":40398,"date":"2025-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/?p=40398"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:26:25","slug":"stony-brook-convocation-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/stony-brook-convocation-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Anant Yardi speaks to college grads at Stony Brook Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>Anant Yardi offered insights, earned from leading his namesake company over four decades, to new business school graduates. Delivering the keynote address at the Convocation ceremony for the Stony Brook University College of Business in New York state, Mr. Yardi described the fulfillment possible from setting goals and establishing a vision, whether personal or professional, to reach them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour goals should be achievable yet just a bit outside your reach,\u201d he told his audience of bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree recipients, recalling the ambitious revenue goals that he set, and met, in the first years after Yardi\u2019s founding in 1984. He traced his vision of developing real estate management software, which started with three original employees and now encompasses more than 10,000 in offices around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Yardi also urged the graduates to embrace change. \u201cThe greatest opportunities are available when there\u2019s change, and each of you will have to think about leveraging it\u201d to achieve personal and professional goals, he said. For example, Yardi began writing programs tailored to personal computers when the devices exploded in popularity in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Equally important, he added, \u201cmake sure that you innovate\u201d by using the latest technology to benefit customers or society at large. \u201cOver time, your knowledge will become obsolete, and that\u2019s why being on your toes and learning all the time is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a final charge to the graduates, Mr. Yardi said, \u201cYou are the future and will succeed. 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