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A recent interview with me and David Barrett on TravelDailyNews Asia: www.traveldailynews.asia/column/interviews/travel-massive-the-global-connection-founded-by-ian-cumming/
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 (current)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
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UPDATE: 28 December 2024 It looks like the author, Erkam has discontinued maintaining the original "Drive & Listen" app and now works at Zillow. According to Erkam's "buy me a coffee" page (https://buymeacoffee.com/erkam), the original website (https:... show more
Drive & Listen 2 days ago
Can't agree with you more... byAir gave everyone abandoned by AITA a new home. The team are constantly releasing new updates and improvements. It's exciting and fun to be a part of that process of building something new and better!
Looks like a great event connecting the tourism industry in Saigon! Looking forward to attending when I'm in town next!
A very happy user here! I discovered byAir when AITA (App In The Air) shut down earlier this year, and I migrated all my flight history over to it. Maxim and the team are really responsive and they are always making updates, which makes me happy! I'd l... show more
Hi Jared, thanks for sharing Nappr with the Travel Massive community! I recently listened to your interview on the Top Floor Podcast about the origin story (sharing link here for anyone else interested): https://www.topfloorpodcast.com/episode/161 On... show more
Nappr — Book Hotels By The Hour 9 days ago
