Creating Hipcamp with Alyssa Ravasio

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Alyssa Ravasio is the founder and CEO of the online campsite booking platform, Hipcamp. Many people think of technology and the outdoors as complete opposites, but for Alyssa, the two have always gone together. With Hipcamp Alyssa's found a way to connect folks with campsites on public and private land. This creates more camping spots and makes it easier to find a place to hunker down under the stars.

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0:00.0	What adventures, big or small, are on your bucket list?
0:05.9	Have you or someone you know gone after a wild idea that we should know about?
0:10.8	Send an email to podcasts at REI.com and let us know we're always looking for more stories
0:17.8	about bugging the norm and going after wild ideas.
0:22.5	I don't really necessarily want to live in a world shaped by people just trying to make
0:31.4	the most money.
0:32.4	That's not like the most fun thing ever to me.
0:34.4	So hip-camp was really a way to take this really powerful technology, the internet and
0:39.9	combine it with this deep love and passion I have for the outdoors and for nature and find
0:45.3	a way to not only make nature more accessible to people and also protect a lot of land in
0:50.9	the process.
0:55.8	We don't often hear about the intersection between technology and the outdoors.
1:00.9	Many people think of the subjects as complete opposites, but for Alissa Ravasio, the two
1:06.3	have always gone together.
1:08.4	Alissa is the founder and CEO of an online platform called Hipcamp.
1:13.4	Booking a campsite and booking a campsite online has always been kind of a pain.
1:19.1	With Hipcamp, Alissa is found a way to connect folks with campsites on public and private
1:24.6	land.
1:25.6	This creates more camping spots and makes it easier to find a place to hunker down under
1:30.9	the stars.
1:32.4	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living and REI Co-op Studios production.
1:40.4	Alissa, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
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