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Episode Synopsis "Season 2, Episode 5: Rick Turoczy, Portland Incubator Experiment"
On Season 2, Episode 5 of theupperleft, we sit down with Rick Turoczy (https://twitter.com/turoczy), cofounder and general manager of PIE (https://piepdx.com), an ongoing experiment designed to explore how more established organizations — like corporations, government entities, and educational institutions — can more effectively collaborate with the Portland startup community, for mutual benefit. Rick is more than mildly obsessed with connecting dots in the Portland startup community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0). In addition to PIE, he has written about the community for a dozen years (https://siliconflorist.com), helped start TechfestNW (https://techfestnw.com), and serves as the lead organizer of Portland Startup Week (https://portland.startupweek.co). At the time of this recording, he was actively prepping for PIE Demo Day (https://bit.ly/PIEDD2019) and working to bring his peers from around the country to Portland for the Startup Champions Network Summit (http://startupchampions.co).
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