On my first day at Vandebron — or Republiq, as it was then called — I had to construct a password that contained numbers, for which part I picked the date, ’10_2’, which is today.
Working here, as a writer, blogger, brand journalist — or whatever you would could call what I do — is useful, yet as a person, it’s much more.
Today signals one lap around the sun — and here’s to making a damn difference.
![May, working in the stand-in De Groene Bocht canteen.](http://jaapgrolleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/vdb_1.jpg)
![June, the new office readies.](http://jaapgrolleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/vdb_2.jpg)
![With Jerry Greenfield — 50% of Ben & Jerry’s — after we won the international Join Our Core competition in London.](http://jaapgrolleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/vdb_4.jpg)