Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars (LaunchPad) has launched a podcast series called “The Commute to Class.” Weekly episodes released on Sundays will feature 12-15 minute interviews between current LaunchPad Global Fellow, Patrick Linehan ’21 (Newhouse), and a LaunchPad alumni who has gone on to create successful ventures. The podcasts are available on https://anchor.fm/blackstone-launchpad, Apple, or wherever podcasts are distributed.
The first two episodes are now available and feature Linda Dickerson Hartsock, executive director of the LaunchPad, and Dylan Kim ’18 (Whitman), co-founder of Brevité. Upcoming guests will include Kelsey Davis ’19 (Newhouse), G’20 (Whitman), founder of CLLCTVE, and Julia Haber ’18 (Newhouse), founder of WAYV and Home From College.
About the Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries
The Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries is the University’s innovation hub, connecting the entire campus resource-rich ecosystem with a global network that provides support for aspiring entrepreneurs, inventors, and creators. The program serves faculty, staff, students, and alumni across disciplines who are interested in innovation, invention, entrepreneurship, venture creation, careers, entrepreneurial skills, diversity, equity, inclusion, and taking ideas from concept to commercialization. The program supports a key pillar of Syracuse University’s Academic Strategic Plan to create an innovation ecosystem across the institution that prepares participants to be trailblazers in an entrepreneurial world.
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