The Rady School of Management is a relatively new business school and they are doing things differently.

The Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools 2023-24 has ranked them #2 in Entrepreneurship. As one of the youngest business schools in the country, the Rady School continues to have an outsized impact on entrepreneurship with over 330 ventures launched and more than $3.5 billion in private funding to support these startups.

I joined Rady as a senior web designer in 2006. At that time they had only recently graduated their first class of MBA students, and the environment felt like a startup, a rapidly-evolving academic venture. I spent four years here improving my front-end development skills, pushing the boundaries of XHTML and CSS and exploring emerging web technologies like jQuery, sIFR and RSS. It was the beginning of the smart-phone era but before responsive design.

Rady is where I met then-MBA student Royan Kamyar. We collaborated on his lab-to-market project Tech Seeds and designed and edited the inaugural edition of the Rady Business Journal together in 2010. He graduated that summer and went on to found Owaves 3 years later.