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InterNations
With over 4.7 million members in 420 cities worldwide, InterNations is the largest global community for
people who live and work abroad. InterNations offers global and local networking and socializing,
online and face-to-face. At around 6,000 events and activities per month, expatriates can meet other global
minds and pursue their interests. Members can also find and exchange tips and information on life abroad
through discussion forums and helpful articles based on personal expat experiences. Membership is by
approval only to ensure quality and trust in our community. InterNations is part of New Work SE, a group
of brands that offer products and services for a better working life.
Although we have an office in Munich, Germany, we're a remote-first company. All team members are free
to work anywhere in Europe — from home, the office, or a combination of both.
How It All Began
Switzerland, 1997: Two young German students meet while enrolled in an MBA program at the
University of St Gallen. Sharing the experience of living abroad in an international environment, they
soon become close friends and sparring partners for discussing their ideas and plans.
After graduation, their ways part as each of them pursues his own dream: Malte Zeeck follows his
passion for travel, cultures and people and starts working as an international television reporter in
Europe, India and Brazil. Philipp von Plato, an entrepreneur at heart who started his first business
while at university, embarks on a career as a consultant for global blue chip companies in Germany, the UK and Croatia.
Two Friends, Many Countries, One Problem
Germany, January 2007: Malte and Philipp meet again. Despite several years apart following different
career paths, they soon realize that there is one experience they both share: being an expat. No
matter where your work or travels take you, you are confronted with the same problems; because
every time you arrive in a new place, you start all over again.
Finding new friends, making new business contacts, sorting out all the essentials for your daily life – all
of this can be a very time-consuming, nerve-wracking and disheartening experience. Wouldn’t
expat life be so much easier if there was just one place you could turn to and find everything you need?
An Idea Becomes Reality
Malte and Philipp decide that there should be such a place: A platform where expats from all
countries of the world can network, socialize and find trustworthy information and services, wherever
they are. A platform that makes life easier for expats. And so the idea of InterNations is born.
Malte and Philipp get their friend Christian Leifeld on board, and in an attic apartment in Cologne,
their vision begins to take shape. Full of ideas and enthusiasm, they organize their own boot camp in
an old castle, where they draft the first version of the InterNations website and a detailed business
plan that would help them turn their vision into reality: In May 2007, InterNations is founded. Within a
couple of years, InterNations grows from a network of friends living abroad to the no. 1 platform for
expats and global minds worldwide.
Location: Germany
Website: https://www.internations.org
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people who live and work abroad. InterNations offers global and local networking and socializing,
online and face-to-face. At around 6,000 events and activities per month, expatriates can meet other global
minds and pursue their interests. Members can also find and exchange tips and information on life abroad
through discussion forums and helpful articles based on personal expat experiences. Membership is by
approval only to ensure quality and trust in our community. InterNations is part of New Work SE, a group
of brands that offer products and services for a better working life.
Although we have an office in Munich, Germany, we're a remote-first company. All team members are free
to work anywhere in Europe — from home, the office, or a combination of both.
How It All Began
Switzerland, 1997: Two young German students meet while enrolled in an MBA program at the
University of St Gallen. Sharing the experience of living abroad in an international environment, they
soon become close friends and sparring partners for discussing their ideas and plans.
After graduation, their ways part as each of them pursues his own dream: Malte Zeeck follows his
passion for travel, cultures and people and starts working as an international television reporter in
Europe, India and Brazil. Philipp von Plato, an entrepreneur at heart who started his first business
while at university, embarks on a career as a consultant for global blue chip companies in Germany, the UK and Croatia.
Two Friends, Many Countries, One Problem
Germany, January 2007: Malte and Philipp meet again. Despite several years apart following different
career paths, they soon realize that there is one experience they both share: being an expat. No
matter where your work or travels take you, you are confronted with the same problems; because
every time you arrive in a new place, you start all over again.
Finding new friends, making new business contacts, sorting out all the essentials for your daily life – all
of this can be a very time-consuming, nerve-wracking and disheartening experience. Wouldn’t
expat life be so much easier if there was just one place you could turn to and find everything you need?
An Idea Becomes Reality
Malte and Philipp decide that there should be such a place: A platform where expats from all
countries of the world can network, socialize and find trustworthy information and services, wherever
they are. A platform that makes life easier for expats. And so the idea of InterNations is born.
Malte and Philipp get their friend Christian Leifeld on board, and in an attic apartment in Cologne,
their vision begins to take shape. Full of ideas and enthusiasm, they organize their own boot camp in
an old castle, where they draft the first version of the InterNations website and a detailed business
plan that would help them turn their vision into reality: In May 2007, InterNations is founded. Within a
couple of years, InterNations grows from a network of friends living abroad to the no. 1 platform for
expats and global minds worldwide.
Location: Germany
Website: https://www.internations.org
See other listings by this user
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