Kind of taken out of context. There is just one sentence in this YouTube.

If you fly an airplane though, it is working on the ideas of many inventors, pioneers, and others who perfected the airplane so that it could fly like it does.

That seems to be what Obama is saying that many others came before you so that you could deliver other people's groceries in the Villages, for instance. Or, create TOTV so that Villagers, wannabe Villagers, and others could talk about what Obama meant in this speech and other matters.