Hey everyone, I built this community to do something good for travel.
π How I started this. Before starting Travel Massive, I co-founded a software consulting firm β and worked on many projects (too many to list) including the first search engine for large-scale climate research data. On a trip to the US (way back in 2006) to visit some colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, my friend sent me on an adventure to the Green Tortoise hostel in San Francisco. That trip mostly changed my life, and I decided to build my own travel startup to help connect fellow travelers. I quit my job (blah blah) and continued traveling and after a few months of living cheap and working from internet-cafes in Thailand and Laos, I presented at CES Australia (2009) and met a travel insurance company who bought my startup. At a hostel in Sydney, me and a few friends started a meetup for travel startups and bloggers, that accidentally grew to a few cities around the world. After a few thousand meetups in a few hundred cities, this created Travel Massive :)
I've also invested in a few startups, including an accelerator in Sydney that funded Tinybeans.com (which floated on the ASX). I'm interested in programming, the open internet, and ways to help people connect and share ideas online and in-person.
I've spent time living in Sydney, Bangkok, Berlin, and Tasmania. Get in touch!
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December 2014
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East Coast, Tasmania
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288 events
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434 comments
434 Comments
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Hey Chris, great to have one of the OGs of the travel blogging world (and a fellow software engineer) here! Iβm curious how you manage such an extensive blog with over a decade of content! Any tips for people with long-term blogs to keep their content... show more
Amateur Traveler 6 hours ago
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Yeah the game is hardcore, youβve got to figure it out yourself !
GeoQuest 9 hours ago
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Here's two people I'm following in the "build in public" space! Kacper GoliΕski @thecaspg who created Traveler Map: https://www.travelmassive.com/posts/traveler-map-578916909 Rod @rrmdp who created Tourist Itinerary Bot: https://www.travelmassive.com/... show more
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"Build in Public" is an internet community / movement of creators who share behind the scenes of how they do it. This means sharing their wins, struggles and learnings. Some people also share their business metrics. There's lots of interesting things t... show more
