Matt Cordio is the Founder and President of Startup Milwaukee and Co-founder and President of Skills Pipeline. He has always been entrepreneurial-minded influenced by his father. He loves reading leadership books and spending time in the desert. Matt appreciates core values like integrity and loves doing business with people who are ethical. Key points: It takes 20 years to develop a startup ecosystem You have to be a leader. No one will blaze the trail for you, you. If we want to progress and create the change we want to see in the world we need to be open to embracing the change and think/see the world through different lenses.  Connect: Matt Cordio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcordio/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcordio/) Website: http://www.skillspipeline.com/ (http://www.skillspipeline.com/) SPEARity Website: https://www.spearity.com/contact/ (https://www.spearity.com/contact/)