Monthly archive for May 2010
Weekly inspiration #35: Corporate culture of the future
“In my dream job I’ll have day-to-day variety, I’ll see ideas become reality, I’ll work with great people, and I’ll have tangible impact on the success of interesting projects.” Over the past two years, we have been observing members of the Sandbox community, the jobs they choose, the way they work, the companies they start. [...]
Sandbox Hub opens in Beijing
Inaugural Beijing dinner Thanks to Leon Chen, our new hyperactive Beijing Ambassador, we are proud to announce that after Shanghai and Hong Kong, a third Sandbox hub has opened this week in China! The “Spring dinner” gathered 15 participants with the aim to “celebrate the vitality that comes with spring, bringing alive thoughts, ideas and [...]
Meet a Sandboxer: Nettra Pan
Nettra Pan is an American and French Cambodian young woman in New York. She is passionate about empowering people – especially women and youth – to move towards poverty reduction and sustainable development. Nettra is on Twitter and on Facebook. Tell us the story of your latest project. This Summer, I’m working at Columbia University’s [...]
Weekly inspiration #34: Open Questions
When I tell people about Sandbox, the question I hear most often is: «What makes a Sandboxer a Sandboxer?» It’s not a simple question to answer. Our selection process looks at a range of criteria to determine if someone is an aspiring young leader. Apart from initiative and ambition, I believe that one shared trait [...]
Sandbox CEO named among top 100 Swiss personalities
Taking the idea of the Time 100 list locally, the Swiss magazine L’Hebdo publishes every year a list of the 100 people who – through their actions and their visions – contributed most to the dynamism of Switzerland’s French-speaking part. Sandbox CEO Antoine Verdon has been named yesterday in the 2010 list under the category “Eminence [...]
Why I love Sandbox
Excited to join Sandbox Things are changing fast. One and a half months ago, I graduated from university (I may call myself a «Master of Arts» now, which somehow sounds like the title of a wizard in «Harry Potter»). Shortly after that, I left for a truly amazing 5-week trip through South East Asia. And [...]
Happy Anniversary, Sandbox!
Sandbox Cake by Emily Dubner It’s hard to believe that only a year has passed since we officially incorporated Sandbox on May 8, 2009. From the beginning, we were determined to find, connect, and accelerate the world’s most extraordinary young people. Before launching the current version of Sandbox, we considered organizing a major global conference [...]
Podcast #6: Simon Wind
Simon Wind is a Palomar5 co-founder. He tells about his experience organizing the Palomar Camp last Fall and about his latest projects with bioplastics. If you are in Berlin don’t hesitate to drop by and meet him at the Palomar office!
Sandboxers about the Clinton Global Initiative University
Sandboxers Sebastian Lindstrom and Patrick Boström participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University held at the University of Miami between April 16 and 18 2010. Funded by the University of Hong Kong Patrick and Sebastian represented Light for Children, a child-centered NPO they work with in Ghana. They had the chance to work together with [...]
Weekly inspiration #33: LIFT talks
While TED talks are now widely spread over the Web, reaching a total of 250 million views in April, one sometimes tends to forget about other sources of highly inspirational videos. With LIFT conference starting on Wednesday in Geneva, we would like to bring the excellent LIFT Talks to your attention, recorded over the last 4 [...]
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