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Entrepreneurs on Fire

J.R. Johnson: Helping travelers help each other travel better

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

J.R. is the Founder/CEO of Trippy.com, a community of travelers helping each other travel better. In 1999, he started VirtualTourist.com, the premier travel community of its time, and he eventually sold it to Expedia/TripAdvisor for $85 Million in 2008.

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J.R. Johnson J.R. Are you prepared to ignite fire nation let's light this candle yes

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J.R. is the founder CEO of trippy dot com a community of travelers helping each other travel better in 1999

1:25.7

He started virtual tors dot com the premier travel community of his time and eventually sold it to expedia trip advisor for 85 million in 2008

1:36.6

J.R. Given fire nation just a little insight so share more about you personally looks bound upon the biz

1:43.3

Cool. Yeah, so first off trippy that's our company right now. This is a question and answer platform for travel

1:50.6

We're really it's a mission driven company for us because I personally believe that travel is extremely important

1:56.1

If there was some way for everybody to get out there and see more of the world it would help us understand things

2:01.7

We just don't if we're just sitting at home makes us a little more understanding a little more tolerant a little more compassionate

2:07.5

These are all good things for us as human beings. I'll sharing this planet together

2:11.3

So trippy is designed to encourage more people to travel and go take that trip

2:16.5

So we can talk more about that, but that's the high level on trippy. I mean personally. I'm

2:21.3

Happily married with two beautiful daughters are gonna be a four and one in January so when I'm not

2:27.9

Thinking about travel and thinking about trippy. I'm spending a lot of time with my with my girls

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