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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
Travel with purpose
This is an incredible achievement on a Philippines passport. As an Australian (or American, UK, EU, etc) we don't realise how lucky we are to travel freely to so many countries. Imagine all the paperwork, interviews, and bureaucracy involved in those 1... show more
🎬 Skip to 1:00 (1 hour) in the video for historic moment of going supersonic. According to their website, Overture (Boom's supersonic airline) has an order book of 130 orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines. T... show more
Hi Maxim, Thanks for sharing your updates, these are great enhancements! I love the new flight stats, and learning how many times I've flown on various gear. Also it's interesting to know how many times I've visited various countries... 66 times to Ge... show more
Mappy Hour is a successful community and it's great to see it still going strong! Much credit to you for maintaining and nurturing your community over the years. And I wouldn't have learned as much without your input and suggestions!
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