Rafe Offer is the co-founder & CEO of Sofar Sounds, a global movement that brings people together over live music in an intimate setting. Based out of London, Sofar was launched in 2009 and now stages concerts in 398 cities worldwide. In our conversation we talk about the humble beginnings of Sofar, the challenges of growing it as a non-technical team, leadership, monetization, their recent funding by Sir Richard Branson and Rafe's vision for Sofar's future.

Linda Liukas is a children’s book author and the creator of Hello Ruby, a book that teaches children about the whimsical world of computers, technology and coding. Hello Ruby was the first children’s book that raised $380,000 on Kickstarter and is published in over 24 languages today. In our conversation, we talk about how Linda's early adventures on the Internet have shaped her creativity, how she built Rails Girls into a global movement that teaches women how to code, the process of funding a book through Kickstarter and her thoughts on dealing with criticism, maximizing freedom and living a fulfilled life.

Justin Gignac is the founder of Working Not Working, a marketplace that connects companies with the universe’s most creative creatives. Founded in 2012 by Justin and his friend Adam Tompkins in New York City, the platform now includes over 10.000 members that work together with over 2000 of the world's best companies such as Apple, The New York Times, Airbnb and Wieden+Kennedy. In our interview, Justin shares what it takes to build a community like Working Not Working; and how he wants to grow it while staying true to its mission.

Annamaria Olsson is the founder of Give Something Back to Berlin; an award-winning project that connects refugees and migrants from all backgrounds through knowledge sharing. What started with a Facebook post in 2012 has helped thousands of newly arrived Berliners integrate in society, make friends and learn the language. In our interview, Annamaria shares the story on how it all got started and the learnings she made from building this unique community over the past 5 years.

Simon is one of the founding members and Director of Communications at SPACE10 - a future living lab on a mission to design a better and more sustainable way of living. With projects ranging from vertical farming to the future of meatballs, the team at the Copenhagen-based research lab works with a global network of collaborators to not only research what the future brings, but also prototype it. The results are then open-sourced and available to anyone. In our conversation we talk about how SPACE10 got started, how their community-based approach convinced IKEA to support them, and why Simon doesn’t believe in 300 page innovation reports - but rather in creative artworks like a photo series on the future of meatballs that went around the world.

Martin and Kara are part of the team of Government Digital Services; the digital unit of the UK Government that's widely recognized to set standards for the way citizens interact with government online. In this conversation Severin sat down with Martin and Kara at The Whitechapel Building in London to talk about what it means to build better services for citizens, how GDS works like a startup within the government and how they share knowledge and build community with civil servants across the country.

Considered one of the shapers of the dot-com era, Jerry Michalski observes, analyzes and consults on technology trends since the early 1990s. Severin and Jerry talk about the role of trust and relationships in today's economy, the dynamics behind platforms such as Kickstarter, Airbnb, Wikipedia and Uber, the evil genius of Donald Trump and many other things.

The guest on this show is Damian Bradfield, president and CMO of WeTransfer. With 40 million active users and 1 billion files transferred every month, WeTransfer is not only an incredibly successful file-sharing service but also a much-loved platform that supports and inspires creatives around the world. Damian joined WeTransfer in 2010 along co-founders Nalden and Bas Beerens. I met him shortly after his talk at this year's Tech Open Air and caught him for a conversation on company values, trust and partnerships with the likes of FKA Twigs, Moby and Gilles Peterson.

In our first episode we talk to Niko Woischnik, the founder of Tech Open Air. Tech Open Air is Europe's biggest interdisciplinary tech conference that brings more than 20.000 people to Berlin this year. In this conversation, Niko and Severin talk about how it all started with a crowdfunding campaign, why community and collaboration lie at the core of Tech Open Air and where the team is taking it in the future.