A Founder’s Path to a 120K Fellowship w/ Rich Gilliam | Ep. 39

How can a founder fully tap into North Carolina’s entrepreneurial ecosystem? Founder and CEO of Stem Plug, Rich Gilliam, shares his journey on Episode 39 of the Ecosysteming podcast with host Thom Ruhe. Rich’s path began in engineering and evolved through his Master’s in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at UNC-Chapel Hill. From there, he became an NC IDEA Startup Analyst Associate, received an NC IDEA MICRO ($10K) grant, and most recently secured the $120,000 two-year ...