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Josh Fleig, the state’s ‘innovation czar,’ has $50 million to spend on Louisiana startups

Josh Fleig

February 13, 2025 — Josh Allen Fleig, the chief innovation officer at Louisiana’s economic development agency, isn’t afraid of a dad joke.

At a pre-Super Bowl speech last Thursday in New Orleans, Fleig said that, since the Buffalo Bills and their star quarterback didn’t make it to the NFL’s championship game, that made him the best “Josh Allen” in town.

At another point, he drew laughs from the roughly 400-person crowd with a well-timed “Gulf of America” reference.

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