He's spent 30 years building economies in places most people overlook... but the most surprising thing he's built is a case for a city he wasn't born in.

Joe Raso is the President and CEO of the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation. He's led EDCs across Iowa, Colorado, and North Dakota, consulted from the vendor side of a software company serving economic development organizations across North America, and spent eight years becoming Fargo-Moorhead's most fluent external advocate, as a transplant who chose to stay.

In this episode of Never Been Asked That, we get into:

• Why 70% of regional economic growth has nothing to do with attracting new companies, and everything to do with the ones already here

• What Joe learned about how EDCs actually behave when he spent two and a half years selling software t ...