Alfie Cox
Motorcycle Dealer
Story von Inspirational Stories
“The sky is the limit, when it comes to be an outdoor person on a motorcycle”, Alfie Cox tells about his life as Motorcycle Dealer in South Africa. What it takes to do his job? “You need to be able to work with people, talk to people, understand people. Passion is the biggest thing you need if you wanna be involved in it.”
Spannende Stories
Jesse Draper
CEO & Co-Founder
“I started a talk show called ‘The Valley Girl Show’ and I always had this idea for a fun talk show based around business, entrepreneurs and CEOs.” Jesse Draper is CEO, founder and actress and encourages everybody to start one’s own company. “The coolest part of my job is that I don’t have a boss. So I am my own boss and I am the boss of everyone else.”
Ng Rong Xin
Co-Founder, CIO
“Explorer Junior is an early childhood education institution that aims to satisfy young curious minds”, declares Chief Information Officer and one of the three Co-Founders Ng Rong Xin. Like in every job, there is a challenge too: “It’s time-consuming and tiring, because the kids are always more active than you are.”
Saskia Thais Bruysten
Co-Founder & CEO
“We are creating a fourth sector in society. Look at that vision! Isn’t that exciting?” Saskia Thais Bruysten, co-founder and CEO of “Yunus Social Business”, travels a lot to work with people in Albania, Haiti and Bangladesh on helping them build their own social businesses. Her advice: “Be a revolutionary if you can! I believe I was much too “clean”!”
Saskia Sassen
Professor at Columbia University
“What it means to be a professor at a top university, is that what you do the least, is teach”, Saskia Sassen tells about her position as Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, “Doing my research often is a bit of an adventure.” When she was 12, she made a decision, that would change her life: “I said, ‘From now on, I do not have time to read novels, I have to read analyses of the real world.’”
