Pittsburgh mayor William Peduto, a Democrat elected in 2013, has been at
the center of the city’s high-tech reincarnation. Our own David Rotman
spoke to him about how it’s going.
On new jobs: “We don’t want to create a society based on PhDs; we want to include GEDs.”
On the city’s progress: “We’re right at the beginning. We’re at the beginning of the next phase of Pittsburgh. Those who lived through the ’80s and ’90s will tell you these are the best days. We went through those decades exporting people like we used to export steel. It has been a slow death of a former economy, but from it has come a new, more diverse economy. So it’s at the beginning phases.”
On lessons for executives in Silicon Valley: “What I reminded them is that we were you before Silicon Valley existed. We were where the great wealth was and where all the jobs were being created 100 years ago. And we created air that was dangerous to breathe, water that was poisonous to drink, and the greatest disparity between the haves and the have-nots in American history. Learn from us.”
On new jobs: “We don’t want to create a society based on PhDs; we want to include GEDs.”
On the city’s progress: “We’re right at the beginning. We’re at the beginning of the next phase of Pittsburgh. Those who lived through the ’80s and ’90s will tell you these are the best days. We went through those decades exporting people like we used to export steel. It has been a slow death of a former economy, but from it has come a new, more diverse economy. So it’s at the beginning phases.”
On lessons for executives in Silicon Valley: “What I reminded them is that we were you before Silicon Valley existed. We were where the great wealth was and where all the jobs were being created 100 years ago. And we created air that was dangerous to breathe, water that was poisonous to drink, and the greatest disparity between the haves and the have-nots in American history. Learn from us.”
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