by Travis Hellstrom
While in Mongolia organizing TEDxUlaanbaatar, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Carsten Rübsaamen, Founder and CEO of Bookbridge. Carsten is absolutely amazing and I feel so honored to know him. He leads an amazing team of people in Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany who are building and supporting sustainable libraries in Mongolia and Cambodia.
Carsten was kind enough to sit down with me for an interview, where we were able to talk about his venture road trip to Silicon Valley, what it's like to start up a nonprofit half way around the world, and what advice he would give to social entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
There a couple of ways you can check it out:
- Listen to the interview by clicking the video below
- Download a transcript of the interview here
- Download the audio here
Here is some of what we discussed:
- Taking a venture road trip across Silicon Valley
- Following your dreams and finding your passion
- Giving up money and helping others
- Developing Bookbridge in Mongolia
- Using the social business model
- Lessons for startup entrepreneurs
- Dreaming big and starting small
- Carsten's thoughts on Advance Humanity
- Say "hi" to Carsten on LinkedIn
- Check out Bookbridge on Facebook
- Checking out Bookbridge.org
I would like to say thank you again to Carsten for sitting down with me for our interview. I am so excited for him and his wonderful work with Bookbridge. I have a feeling this is going to be a wonderful year for Carsten and his awesome Bookbridge team!
