Newsmakers

Caryn Beck-Dudley, dean of the Leavey School of Business, spoke to the San Jose Mercury News about Silicon Valley, business and ethics. 

An excerpt from the piece:
Q: What do you think of Silicon Valley so far?
A: The way I describe it to people who aren't from here is that these are people who started businesses, ended businesses, failed at businesses, started another business, all before they were 40. You just don't see that type of vibrancy in other places. The conversations are different, the pace is different. The tolerance for risk taking and the tolerance for failure is almost idiosyncratic to this valley. People give money to things they know won't succeed. In other parts of the country, people don't give you money if they (don't) think you were going to be successful and if you haven't proven you will be successful. This is the bleeding edge of technology -- they don't know if it will work tomorrow or in five years or 10 years. I like being in that kind of environment, and I like training students to be in that kind of environment.

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