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Founder, Lead Developer

I grew up in this industry, and have experience as a sponsored skateboarder, in shop management and sales, as well as international distribution, marketing, media production and brand/company management. I founded Europe's first woodshop "Next" and internationally recognised retailer and team "the network".

I held every job in skateboarding before moving on to a career in the creative, IT and startup industry before dedicating the past 5 years to a sports/social startup called "bola.io". 

A sports and team centric social publishing and scheduling platform with a broad set of unique features. While its rooted in traditional team sports all the work i put in team app was geared towards a broader social platform aspect and building  the missing glue within the action sports internet.

A retail business i founded at age 17 - It was ran and promoted like a board company, and became famous for its team and international reach in the late 90's and 2000's. 

Founder/CEO

Europe's first OEM woodshop and a early European Brand. We pressed, shaped and printed competitively priced and top tier quality decks for out own and many small European Brands.

Founder, Product Design, Brand Management

Find out detailed information about Manuel Gschwend, Founder, Lead Developer in Zurich, ZH

Manuel Gschwend: Founder, Lead Developer in Zurich, ZH

Manuel Gschwend

Bola.io

The Network

Next Skateboards GmbH