The DRAMA Podcast - Yuri, Designer, Innovator + Building a Career through Entrepreneurship

Yuri, Designer, Innovator + Building a Career through Entrepreneurship

04/30/20 • 24 min

Yuri Cataldo studied design at the Yale School of Drama. Now his title is Innovation Designer at Autodesk. In between he’s started a water company, designed an MBA-level program for a college and written a book about cryptocurrency. What does it mean to be a theater designer? What do you do when your life as a designer doesn’t work out as planned? And what does any of this have to do with Andrew Yang and voting rights. In a wide-ranging interview, I speak with Yuri about design, media, and entrepreneurship.

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