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Ian
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About me

Hey everyone, I built this community to do something good for travel.

👉 How I started this. Before starting Travel Massive, I co-founded a software consulting firm — 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!

What is your favorite travel destination?

East Coast, Tasmania

Where do you dream of traveling to?

East Africa

What was your first travel job?

I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.

What do you want to learn more about?

The most remote places in the world

Three words that describe why we should travel?

Travel with purpose

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  • Welcome, Emily! We're very excited to have you on board to take over from the wonderful Heather and Jane! PS: For those of you reading who were members back in 2016, here's a blog article about the first ever Bristol Travel Massive meetup (which tre... show more

  • A few more bits of feedback: 1. The app logs me out after < a week so I have to sign in again, which is kind annoying. Can you please extend the cookie expiration for the session. 2. I can’t see how much data I have left in the app. 3. It’s not cle... show more

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    Jetpac 11 days ago

  • Great to meet you Juan! 🙌 and thanks for the ☕️

  • I’m drop by!

  • I’ll drop by!

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