Episode #5: Playing with Legos with Kate Hodel | Economic development, community infrastructure and leadership styles

Yuval Yarden
The Keystone
Published in
2 min readSep 24, 2019

Today on our show, we have Kate Hodel, a pioneer ecosystem builder.

She is the co-author of Beyond Collisions: How to build your entrepreneurial infrastructure which I highly recommend and has has been instrumental in building tools for ecosystem builders through her work at the Kauffman Foundation and then at KC Source Link. Today, we’ll be chatting about economic development, community infrastructure, leadership styles and lego building. This interview is packed with tactical advice, so open up your notebooks, and let’s dive in!

Our Guest:

Link to Beyond Collisions: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Collisions-entrepreneurial-infrastructure-Changing/dp/0692999892

Organizations & companies mentioned in this episode:

The Keystone is a Cue9 production. This episode was produced by me and Kevin Chemidlin, with editing by Lauren Hunter and Max Graham. Charlton is a newly paved road, on your daily work commute.

This show was made possible in part by our friends at the Schusterman Foundation.

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Thanks for joining us! Keep building and we’ll catch ya next week!

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Yuval Yarden
The Keystone

Head of Community at Venwise, Mama to Baby Noa, Bachelor Nation Superfan