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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)
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AEast Coast, Tasmania
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AVladivostok
What was your first travel job?
Q&AI wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&AThe most remote places in the world
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&ATravel with purpose
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Congrats on launching on Product Hunt! https://www.producthunt.com/products/pangea-4
Pangea 7 hours ago
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Great photos (thanks @paulkporter) and what an amazing experience! 🤩 Will the exhibition still be there when WTM London comes around in November?
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Hi Erica and Jillian, thanks for sharing doozi with Travel Massive and welcome to the community! Seriously well done on the app and your launches! Building is the easy bit, but marketing and customer acquisition is the hard part (as you know!) so brav... show more
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I can't believe the startup competition is almost here! Congratulations to our five finalists, and a huge thank you to everyone who submitted to our call-out last month — we received more than 40 high-quality applications from around the world, and nar... show more
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You're right about discovering a place rather than having it dictated. I like to think about it in terms of how easy it is to "undo" something that AI might decide on. A restaurant or cafe? Easy to "undo" that decision and go walk across the street if t... show more
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