Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (2016-2025)
East Coast, Tasmania
Los Angeles
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Thanks to everyone who attended and what a great evening! It was fantastic to meet new members and also catch up with some old friends who have been members for many years. Thanks again to Stripe for continuing to support the Travel Massive community in... show more
Thanks to all our members for coming along (both old and new) and I hope everyone made some new connections in our wonderful travel community here in Melbourne. A big thanks to Casey (@kckiwigirl) for helping us host the event at Easey's and for connec... show more
This video explains a bit about what's happening with AI models right now and to your point why Google doesn't need to charge https://youtu.be/_Q-e_nczWqM
Hi Noah, thanks for joining Travel Massive and sharing your project with our community. I signed up to NAiO and had a look around. A few questions / comments: 1. Is this built with AI? 2. The big question (that I ask almost everyone I meet building... show more
I suspect that Google is experimenting with how much AI compute they give users in this new feature. The cost to answer complicated queries with LLM can't possibly be profitable in comparison to their traditional search engine. When the venture capital... show more