A Random Walk with Ben Kohlmann
A Random Walk with Ben Kohlmann
Ben Kohlmann
23 - Can the Dept of Defense Actually Innovate? (Josh Marcuse, former Exec Director of the Defense Innovation Board)
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Sep 6, 2020 at 7:58 pm.
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Josh Marcuse is a serial entrepreneur - within government.  As the young founder of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, he sought to give emerging leaders a voice and network they previously lacked.  Within a decade, he was the inaugural director of the Defense Innovation Board, helping the likes of Eric Schmidt, Jennifer Palka, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and other luminaries navigate the byzantine language of the world's largest bureaucracy.  

On this episode, we discuss:

+What Josh learned as a part-time founder of a non-profit aimed at young professionals

+What it takes to be an intra-preneur in government

+Unheralded DoD success stories of moving the needle

+One area to keep an eye out for in the coming years as defense innovation hits its stride