After a week in the mountains this Summer, two weeks in Frankfurt in September, the Sandbox crew just arrived in Berlin! Nico, Noor, Lilly and I will spend two weeks at Betahaus in a temporary office.

We love to change location whenever we can: it re-energizes everyone and makes us more creative. More importantly, moving to new cities allows us to deepen our relationship with the local Sandboxers and to strengthen our hubs. Tomorrow, we will be attending TEDxBerlin and in the evening, Rainer – our amazing Berlin Ambassador – is organizing a dinner with the local community.

We are  based in the Kreuzberg borough, a really nice neighborhood full of cafés and bars, and we spent our first hours in the Bundeshauptstadt exploring the area, stopping by for a Currywurst at Curry 36 yesterday evening and for a gigantic brunch at Café Atlantic this morning. More about Berlin soon. And a surprise guest will join us next Saturday, stay tuned

Antoine is a co-founder and the CEO of Sandbox and sees Berlin as a culinary paradise. He also took his sport apparel with him to not loose the good habits.

Last week-end, we launched a podcast series recorded by our hyperactive Berlin Ambassador, Rainer Scheerer.

This new episode is about Susanne, a young stage designer based in Berlin and an active member of the local Sandbox community. She talks about her work, her team – UnionUniversal – and her vision of art & love.

For the story, Rainer & her are a couple and they married since they made the podcast, reason why he still calls her with her maiden name, Jakob

Antoine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Sandbox. He is ready for this week-end’s chocolate orgy and put a small surprise on top of this page in order to get into the mood.

About a month ago, I was in Berlin and stayed at Scheerer & Scheerer‘s place. Rainer is our Sandbox Ambassador for Berlin. He is an opera singer and a hip-hop producer. He is also a sound technician, so when he saw his audio recorder device, he came up with the brilliant idea of making Sandbox podcasts. We didn’t wait longer and gave it a first try.

In this first and very spontaneous podcast, we talk about Sandbox and explain what the purpose of the podcasts should be: go a step further and get to know Sandbox members more personally, by trying to understand not only what they are doing but also where their drive and passion comes from.

Podcast Nr 1: Antoine Verdon

The day after, Rainer met Basti Hirsh who was about to leave for a learning expedition in the US. Basti explains what it is about in the following podcast:

Podcast Nr 2: Basti Hirsch

Rainer and Susanne bumped into James Rohrbach, Sandboxer and CEO of Gulliver, a site that helps American college students to study abroad. James tells us more about the stand of his project and gives us his definition of art.

Podcast Nr 3: James Rohrbach

There is more to come: the next podcasts scheduled feature Sandboxers Susanne Scheerer, Sandra Diana Troegl, Adrian Locher and Jay Cousins. We will publish them one by one on a monthly rhythm and Rainer will continue recording more with the Sandboxers that he meets.

Antoine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Sandbox. He is impressed by Rainer’s creative energy and is looking forward to many more podcasts We put them on iTunes for an easier download, but we have to wait for iTunes approval before.