Agreed - as a Penn alumn, it's very exciting to see this kind of activity over the past few years. I graduated in 2006 - at the time, interest in tech and entr

Agreed - as a Penn alumn, it's very exciting to see this kind of activity over the past few years. I graduated in 2006 - at the time, interest in tech and entrepreneurship was very far from the cultural norm on campus. Some assets Penn has as the interest in tech expands: - Penn has had a professional focus for a long time because of Wharton - that means access to all kinds of business, legal, capital resources. These resources will serve this repositioning towards entrepreneurship very well. - West-Philly is dirt cheap. It doesn't get much cheaper in the United States. - Philadelphia is culturally very rich. I mean this in a deeper sense than the explicit things like museums and venues. Upon moving to New York after graduation, I remember distinctly feeling like NY was more conservative culturally. This goes hand in hand with the above point - making rent is easier - allowing for all kinds of things. Namely, people took more risks and were more eccentric.