Communicorn: New podcast about unicorns, cooperation & entrepreneurship
2025-05-16 Alternative business models, community-oriented entrepreneurship, exciting community projects - Communicorn, the new podcast from the Leuphana Social Innovation Community, presents people who are rethinking companies.
Communicorn will initially feature eight episodes in which experts who do business in a social, sustainable and community-oriented way will have their say. The episodes will appear every two weeks in audio and video format, alternately hosted by Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny, Dr. Frederic Penz and Charlotte von Wulffen from the Leuphana Innovation Community. They will take their audience into the world of community entrepreneurship. They combine scientific findings with practical stories from Lüneburg, Hamburg and other cities in Germany. They shed light on the successes and challenges of community-oriented forms of business from different perspectives.
The podcast guests' recipe for success is communities. This means that they do business for, in, with or driven by communities. The podcast primarily features organizations that are not focused on maximum profit, but on community, resilience and sustainability.
In the first episode, Timm Duffner has his say. He is the Managing Director of Heyho Müsli. His slogan: “At HEYHO, we don't hire people to roast oats, we roast oats to hire people.” In the podcast, he talks about how important the community is for his social enterprise.
The podcast is in English. The community offers transcripts via the website, which can be translated into German if required.
Communicorn Podcast Staffel 1
- 12.05.2025// Episode 01: Roasting social Granola for a Community, Timm Duffner / Heyho
- 26.05.2025// Episode 03: Utopia in Practice: Community Space for Social Innovation, Corinna Krome & Kerstin Blumberg / Co-Leads of Utopia
- 09.06.2025// Episode 03: Rethinking Professional Football: From Passive Investment to Active Community Financing, Esin Rager / Vice President FC St. Pauli & Founder of samova
- 23.06.2025// Episode 04: Shaping the Future of Cooperatives: Digitalization, Community & New Norms, Fabian Gebert / Co-Lead of Geno.Digital
- 07.07.2025// Episode 05: From Crowdfunding to Community Ownership Johanna Kühner / Co-Founder of SuperCoop and Geno.Digital
- 18.08.2025// Episode 06: Building Partnerships that Amplify Community Impact and Ownership, Arnd Boekhoff & Lars Braitmayer / Viva con Agua
- 01.09.2025// Episode 07: Empowering Communities through the Community Supported Agriculture Approach, Daniel Überall / Co-Founder of Kartoffelkombinat
- 15.09.2025// Episode 08: Collective Coffee: Balancing business and community values, Ruth Jeckel / Co-Lead of Avenir Café and Roastery