WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.819 hello and good morning i'm in san antonio texas 00:00:03.819 --> 00:00:06.559 i'm javanka mcgee co -host of vision pros live 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:10.199 please do me a favor share with me your first 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:12.500 name where you're located and the name of your 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:16.120 business yeah my name is alexander you can call 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:21.100 me alex uh i'm located in kiev ukraine and my 00:00:21.100 --> 00:00:25.399 startup is uh named tea travel please do tell 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.210 me more about tea travel So it's a mobile app 00:00:29.210 --> 00:00:33.149 that allows creators to sell their experience. 00:00:33.409 --> 00:00:38.929 Basically, it's like your travel guide in a smartphone. 00:00:39.270 --> 00:00:42.530 When you have a lot of information and you're 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:44.770 traveling a lot and you want to share it with 00:00:44.770 --> 00:00:47.490 your followers or your friends, you can download 00:00:47.490 --> 00:00:52.170 our app and easily, like in a constructor, build 00:00:52.170 --> 00:00:55.579 your own itinerary. and sell it for uh anyone 00:00:55.579 --> 00:00:59.320 who wants to repeat your journey or like um you 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:04.180 know have the same kind of uh experience that 00:01:04.180 --> 00:01:07.840 you had so it's pretty convenient and it's all 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.060 about you know traveling in smartphone wow okay 00:01:12.060 --> 00:01:16.500 so it's an app yep in that app will it you tell 00:01:17.150 --> 00:01:19.890 at what city or country you're going to and then 00:01:19.890 --> 00:01:22.349 you download the itinerary and then once they 00:01:22.349 --> 00:01:26.310 record they're able to share it? Yeah it's actually 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:33.409 like anyone can build an itinerary especially 00:01:33.409 --> 00:01:37.409 you know vloggers and people with experience 00:01:37.409 --> 00:01:42.269 and then you know upload on our servers and share 00:01:42.269 --> 00:01:46.609 it with people so yeah. Wow, okay. Well, Alex, 00:01:46.730 --> 00:01:50.409 please tell me, why travel? Is that a passion 00:01:50.409 --> 00:01:54.950 of yours? Yeah, it's actually, you know, maybe 00:01:54.950 --> 00:01:58.549 it's a post -Soviet mentality, but we had a lot 00:01:58.549 --> 00:02:02.609 of troubles traveling abroad before, I think, 00:02:02.709 --> 00:02:09.270 2015. And it's like, I always dreamed of independence, 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:13.229 you know, see the world, other cultures. working 00:02:13.229 --> 00:02:16.330 with other cultures. I like, you know, being 00:02:16.330 --> 00:02:20.189 there and speak with locals, you know, what's 00:02:20.189 --> 00:02:25.110 their passion about, what about their living, 00:02:25.289 --> 00:02:32.949 and like hidden gems on our planet that I can, 00:02:33.030 --> 00:02:38.800 you know, visit. So it's like... When I worked 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:44.199 in Poland, I left Ukraine for some period of 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:48.780 time, three years. I lived in Poland for a couple 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:51.240 of months. I've lived in London, worked there. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.159 And I've used the time to travel. To travel, 00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:59.520 to use these very cheap tickets around Europe. 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:05.889 And I've seen... really different dynamics from 00:03:05.889 --> 00:03:09.849 what we had in our country like people are easily 00:03:09.849 --> 00:03:14.550 entertaining themselves by going elsewhere you 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:18.129 know just like picking up something from the 00:03:18.129 --> 00:03:23.159 list easily and like when it's for example it's 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:26.020 thursday right now and we're going on saturday 00:03:26.020 --> 00:03:31.199 to paris like for example so it's for me it was 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.219 a revelation uh i haven't seen such behavior 00:03:34.219 --> 00:03:38.719 anywhere like it's so easy for uh europeans especially 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.780 and like you i think for us people also uh to 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:48.509 travel around the continent uh with such an easy 00:03:48.509 --> 00:03:52.169 you know approach it's like uh and i'm passionate 00:03:52.169 --> 00:03:57.469 about it um i i like uh this type of behavior 00:03:57.469 --> 00:04:01.310 this type of approach for for your living yeah 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:04.349 yeah and that's that's something that i must 00:04:04.349 --> 00:04:06.949 say that i haven't done a lot of at least outside 00:04:06.949 --> 00:04:12.909 of of the us and just just to hear how intriguing 00:04:12.909 --> 00:04:16.709 it sounds to just be able to travel and you know 00:04:16.709 --> 00:04:18.709 one day get up and say you know what i'm going 00:04:18.709 --> 00:04:22.129 somewhere else and to be able to talk to different 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:26.250 people and understand their culture and where 00:04:26.250 --> 00:04:30.949 they are so when when someone uses this app does 00:04:30.949 --> 00:04:33.490 it and and then upload it to your system does 00:04:33.490 --> 00:04:36.230 it sort of give the feeling of those such like 00:04:36.230 --> 00:04:39.389 myself that don't go anywhere like i can actually 00:04:39.389 --> 00:04:42.410 sort of be there you know what i mean yeah yeah 00:04:42.410 --> 00:04:47.529 yeah definitely because um like um when we developed 00:04:47.529 --> 00:04:51.430 this app we uh discovered that um people use 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:55.870 it for uh i would say three different uh purposes 00:04:55.870 --> 00:05:00.829 or like in three different points of time the 00:05:00.829 --> 00:05:04.089 first one it's like eight months or half a year 00:05:04.089 --> 00:05:08.470 before travel to inspire themselves so they like 00:05:08.470 --> 00:05:12.269 virtually already there and uh we did a lot of 00:05:12.269 --> 00:05:16.550 itineraries by ourselves around ukraine for free 00:05:16.550 --> 00:05:20.069 just just for people to you know discover uh 00:05:20.069 --> 00:05:23.410 our country long before they decided you know 00:05:23.410 --> 00:05:26.970 to go uh and visit ukraine for example of course 00:05:26.970 --> 00:05:30.850 right now the situation is uh not uh very safe 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.899 right but a lot of people can see to our app 00:05:34.899 --> 00:05:42.060 our beautiful cities you know and kind of be 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:46.040 inspired by our culture so the second point of 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:50.519 time is like two months or months before just 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:52.819 picking up the itinerary because our itineraries 00:05:52.819 --> 00:05:56.040 have it all like all the suggestions where like 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:00.060 where to go where to book in like apartment uh 00:06:00.060 --> 00:06:02.459 what kind of problems can be like with the credit 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:05.899 cards you know some kind of pitfalls so all of 00:06:05.899 --> 00:06:09.980 this uh information is there we we do very detailed 00:06:09.980 --> 00:06:13.040 itineraries and the third point of time when 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.850 you already on the spot like yeah you came to 00:06:17.850 --> 00:06:21.290 Rome or Bucharest for example and you don't know 00:06:21.290 --> 00:06:24.670 where to go or like start go like and you're 00:06:24.670 --> 00:06:28.589 there for one day or two days for example maybe 00:06:28.589 --> 00:06:32.870 your flight was cancelled and you are there just 00:06:32.870 --> 00:06:37.889 because you were not so lucky or lucky I don't 00:06:37.889 --> 00:06:45.399 know so you can afford to around and check it 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.680 out what's there so for each point of time our 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.560 itineraries are helping people to discover a 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:56.620 new destination wow i like that so in my mind 00:06:56.620 --> 00:06:59.680 i'm hearing the planning stage the preparation 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:03.980 stage and then actually being there and either 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:09.410 by accident or You know, or by purpose. Nice, 00:07:09.990 --> 00:07:12.730 nice. So, of course, because we're Vision Pros 00:07:12.730 --> 00:07:15.889 Live, I have to ask you this question. Tell me 00:07:15.889 --> 00:07:19.230 about your vision when you decided to do this 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:22.889 app and move forward in this career of yours. 00:07:23.829 --> 00:07:30.810 Really, it's like I felt that our world and people 00:07:30.810 --> 00:07:36.079 around the globe, they are. can like connect 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:41.639 it in a way that never we never had before right 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.800 it's like uh right now with the technology uh 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.660 with the internet connection with all the smartphones 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:52.279 uh with all the content that is pretty produced 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:58.379 by creators we can uh be anywhere like in a moment 00:07:59.699 --> 00:08:04.360 virtually and pretty easy in a time period of 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:06.779 a week, for example, or like three days, four 00:08:06.779 --> 00:08:12.319 days. So my vision and my co -founder's vision 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.439 was to support this connection, to support this 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.259 passion and give it kind of a form that can be 00:08:21.259 --> 00:08:26.430 used by many. each person who have a smartphone 00:08:26.430 --> 00:08:30.329 in their pocket you know so it's like a connection 00:08:30.329 --> 00:08:35.330 because of this globalization and different uh 00:08:35.330 --> 00:08:40.690 type of like uh different type of um experience 00:08:40.690 --> 00:08:46.250 i would say living on like nowadays Yeah. And 00:08:46.250 --> 00:08:49.389 you're right. It's a different level of connection 00:08:49.389 --> 00:08:52.570 now, especially after the pandemic and things 00:08:52.570 --> 00:08:55.889 that we've experienced and realizing that our 00:08:55.889 --> 00:08:57.769 Wi -Fi and everything else is going to have to 00:08:57.769 --> 00:09:01.070 take us to places we can't even go. So I truly, 00:09:01.269 --> 00:09:04.750 truly can imagine what that feels like to have 00:09:04.750 --> 00:09:08.409 a vision and to now. be able to give it to someone 00:09:08.409 --> 00:09:12.549 in the palm of their hand so i i mean i don't 00:09:12.549 --> 00:09:15.929 even think about things like that i don't because 00:09:15.929 --> 00:09:18.850 i don't travel outside of the us it's like i 00:09:18.850 --> 00:09:22.230 don't know but again the inspiration just even 00:09:22.230 --> 00:09:24.570 talking you know talking to you alex is like 00:09:24.570 --> 00:09:27.389 hmm maybe i should just figure out maybe i should 00:09:27.389 --> 00:09:31.870 just try it yeah that's for sure yeah sure many 00:09:31.870 --> 00:09:35.830 many people you know um or thinking like from 00:09:35.830 --> 00:09:39.570 vacation to vacation but like part of the vision 00:09:39.570 --> 00:09:42.929 to change this behavior because it can be more 00:09:42.929 --> 00:09:46.789 dynamic it can bring you more joy even uh while 00:09:46.789 --> 00:09:51.129 you're planning you know absolutely with with 00:09:51.129 --> 00:09:54.409 the part of knowing that you've you've built 00:09:54.409 --> 00:09:57.570 this app for people to travel what is tell me 00:09:57.570 --> 00:09:59.610 a little bit about your coaching in this area 00:09:59.610 --> 00:10:02.529 or is it in something completely different It's 00:10:02.529 --> 00:10:07.190 a bit different because like my experience, like 00:10:07.190 --> 00:10:10.429 I have 12 years of experience in IT and technology. 00:10:10.669 --> 00:10:16.350 It started from quality assurance domain and 00:10:16.350 --> 00:10:20.340 I was in like just... I would say quality assurance 00:10:20.340 --> 00:10:24.639 experts, software QX expert and I started to 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.279 figure out different type of frameworks for the 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:34.639 companies and it allowed me to coach teams, coach 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.820 organizations, coach the leaders to be more adaptive 00:10:38.820 --> 00:10:43.700 for like what is upcoming you know or what's 00:10:43.700 --> 00:10:46.500 happening right now with the business with the 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:52.350 organization with like trends like global trends 00:10:52.350 --> 00:10:55.730 that are that are here and now and we need to 00:10:55.730 --> 00:11:01.470 somehow respond or adapt beforehand so it's like 00:11:01.470 --> 00:11:07.549 kind of because of this experience I was in each 00:11:07.549 --> 00:11:10.990 and every department of technological companies, 00:11:11.230 --> 00:11:14.070 you know, because I've like coached salesperson, 00:11:14.269 --> 00:11:20.009 like marketing, then like support department, 00:11:20.470 --> 00:11:29.129 like IT developers, QAs, and I understood how 00:11:29.129 --> 00:11:33.940 application can be built, how... people can be 00:11:33.940 --> 00:11:38.019 hired like proper people what a skill set needs 00:11:38.019 --> 00:11:44.320 to be filled for example and like this this particular 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.259 experience gave me a lot of understanding about 00:11:47.259 --> 00:11:52.340 Not the start of the how the company can be built 00:11:52.340 --> 00:11:55.559 and yeah, and then I started to travel with my 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:59.179 co -founders That you know, it's so funny. Do 00:11:59.179 --> 00:12:03.700 you know? Mr. Potato head Do you know Mr. Potato 00:12:03.700 --> 00:12:08.379 Head? Yes, the toy. So it's so funny. I'm thinking 00:12:08.379 --> 00:12:10.779 like, I don't know what made me just think this, 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.919 but you have all the pieces to make a whole body. 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:18.759 Yes. And I was thinking of like, you know, because 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:21.659 starting out in quality assurance and then ending 00:12:21.659 --> 00:12:25.000 up coaching in different areas and learning how 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.279 to hire different people. I swear it's so funny. 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:29.490 I know, Alex, but I was like. Oh, he was just 00:12:29.490 --> 00:12:31.909 popping it together to make this whole body. 00:12:32.970 --> 00:12:36.250 That's for sure. And now the whole body is a 00:12:36.250 --> 00:12:40.289 grapple. Maybe still, you know, I'm like always 00:12:40.289 --> 00:12:44.009 learning one eye is missing, but everything else 00:12:44.009 --> 00:12:47.370 is in place. I know that was super random, but 00:12:47.370 --> 00:12:50.269 that's all I thought of. And I love putting pieces 00:12:50.269 --> 00:12:55.600 together, right? We always have this. thought, 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.500 imagination, to think about a puzzle, but when 00:12:58.500 --> 00:13:01.700 you really want a movable body, you know, something 00:13:01.700 --> 00:13:05.059 that really just, you could put your entire career 00:13:05.059 --> 00:13:08.600 together to make this app, to allow people to 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.059 move around. I don't know, it just made me think 00:13:11.059 --> 00:13:13.879 about that, but it also puts things into perspective 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.519 that you know what you decided to do right now 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.320 wasn't always the plan you had to take all these 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.059 pieces yeah and put them together to make something 00:13:24.059 --> 00:13:27.019 that allows someone like myself to be able to 00:13:27.019 --> 00:13:30.360 to travel or set up an itinerary or to visit 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.100 a place and actually have something to do so 00:13:33.100 --> 00:13:35.559 yeah i know that that was a really really interesting 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:43.559 analogy yes so with this uh how long has has 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.580 the app been up and running it's uh up and running 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:54.759 from uh like uh august uh 2021 okay yeah so we 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:59.600 started from uh like local itineraries and we 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.740 had like very big hype around our application 00:14:03.740 --> 00:14:10.259 in Ukraine. So we even made a small movie about 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:14.000 our country and presenting the application in 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:18.919 the end. This movie was in a couple of cinema 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:23.500 theatres. So people went to check it out to inspire 00:14:23.500 --> 00:14:26.840 themselves and then we... tell them told them 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.580 that yeah we we have the application and it's 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:32.159 in your smartphone already you already can check 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:37.480 it out so yeah then uh as you know maybe like 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.980 full -scale invasion uh started in 2022 before 00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:46.179 that we uh had like big plans and we actually 00:14:46.179 --> 00:14:49.740 got to acceleration program uh but in like it 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:54.340 was the week at the same week like we on the 00:14:54.340 --> 00:14:57.460 20th of february we went to this uh like grand 00:14:57.460 --> 00:15:00.879 opening of acceleration program and 20 21st it's 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.580 like everything like shut down it was so intense 00:15:04.580 --> 00:15:10.039 uh so we needed like half a year of i would say 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.820 uh different type of activities like bringing 00:15:12.820 --> 00:15:18.700 like our relative to safety you know uh doing 00:15:18.700 --> 00:15:21.740 a lot of stuff that is not related to our project 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:27.100 but then we discovered that yeah we still have 00:15:27.100 --> 00:15:34.860 like not only fate in but also our strengths 00:15:34.860 --> 00:15:38.659 you know and we still have a vision that we want 00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:43.120 to implement and we started to work in half a 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:49.059 year like again to localize itineraries and to 00:15:49.059 --> 00:15:51.820 bring it to other markets. So, for example, right 00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:54.580 now our application is available in four languages. 00:15:54.820 --> 00:15:58.360 It's English, German, Ukrainian and Italian. 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.759 So in it, like, I don't know, for some reason 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:08.220 it became popular in Italy and like for Italians 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:14.259 actually, for local use. And we have a memorandum 00:16:14.259 --> 00:16:18.379 with universities and the students are building 00:16:18.379 --> 00:16:21.860 those itineraries as a part of their program 00:16:21.860 --> 00:16:26.559 in university. They are learning tourism field 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:31.779 and it's their kind of... end of the program 00:16:31.779 --> 00:16:34.100 like they need to build this itinerary and present 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:40.179 it to the to the audience so like we have a lot 00:16:40.179 --> 00:16:42.980 of activities that go abroad right now because 00:16:42.980 --> 00:16:46.720 uh our market is stalled you know many people 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.639 are just forced to leave their houses but uh 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.919 still uh there isn't uh attention to ukraine 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.960 like investors are coming you know some people 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:01.460 are coming uh and we understand that the world 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:07.059 doesn't stop, it's still dynamic, it's still 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:16.309 great in a lot of senses and worth to see. I 00:17:16.309 --> 00:17:19.430 love your positivity in all of this because that's 00:17:19.430 --> 00:17:21.849 exactly what it takes to keep moving forward 00:17:21.849 --> 00:17:26.990 is to be hopeful and optimistic. So I truly love 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:31.390 that. Please share with our listener where they 00:17:31.390 --> 00:17:34.289 can find this app at, what it is, where they 00:17:34.289 --> 00:17:37.430 can find you at and any of your social media 00:17:37.430 --> 00:17:43.079 handles. Oh, it's easy. As I mentioned here, 00:17:43.299 --> 00:17:48.339 the website is ttravel .me. So there you can 00:17:48.339 --> 00:17:52.700 check it out and the application, the features 00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:56.420 that we have and download on App Store or Google 00:17:56.420 --> 00:18:00.259 Store. So it's the easiest way just from the 00:18:00.259 --> 00:18:04.700 website to go to one of the stores and download 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:10.549 it on your smartphone. me, everyone can just 00:18:10.549 --> 00:18:16.130 knock in LinkedIn and I will be very happy to 00:18:16.130 --> 00:18:21.490 talk, to collaborate, to work together or just 00:18:21.490 --> 00:18:26.150 share some thoughts about travel. So yeah, please 00:18:26.150 --> 00:18:31.660 welcome. um i'm mostly using linkedin uh other 00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:36.180 you know uh like twitter and instagram is just 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:39.059 for personal use and i'm not using it for um 00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:46.549 sharing any insights we have official uh official 00:18:46.549 --> 00:18:49.910 social media for tea travel and it's also links 00:18:49.910 --> 00:18:54.170 are all available on ttravel .me website so we 00:18:54.170 --> 00:18:58.950 have a pretty pretty good uh tick tock really 00:18:58.950 --> 00:19:02.829 interesting you know and uh people people there 00:19:02.829 --> 00:19:06.630 are you know more active than everywhere i would 00:19:06.630 --> 00:19:10.789 say because they like travel so in a lot of creators 00:19:10.789 --> 00:19:14.549 you know hanging there and checking out the content 00:19:14.549 --> 00:19:20.029 so uh tick tock instagram um you name it it's 00:19:20.029 --> 00:19:23.369 all there well thank you so much alex anyone 00:19:23.369 --> 00:19:26.490 who's wanting to travel need an itinerary or 00:19:26.490 --> 00:19:30.130 needing to figure it out go to ttravel .me you 00:19:30.130 --> 00:19:32.769 can find all these things there alex thank you 00:19:32.769 --> 00:19:36.690 so much for being with me today i loved learning 00:19:36.690 --> 00:19:39.970 about all of this and i definitely am going to 00:19:39.970 --> 00:19:42.410 need to download the app so i could travel somewhere 00:19:42.410 --> 00:19:47.329 yes at least you know you can inspire yourself 00:19:47.329 --> 00:19:51.069 and then plan ahead Yes. Well, thank you so much, 00:19:51.130 --> 00:19:53.690 Alex, and have an amazing day. Thank you for 00:19:53.690 --> 00:19:55.710 being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned 00:19:55.710 --> 00:19:57.990 in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to 00:19:57.990 --> 00:20:01.289 seeing your reactions as these episodes continue 00:20:01.289 --> 00:20:03.049 to move forward. This is going to get more and 00:20:03.049 --> 00:20:05.069 more fun. We'll have more and more engagement 00:20:05.069 --> 00:20:07.170 as well. We'll invite people to participate in 00:20:07.170 --> 00:20:09.349 the show. And thank you for giving us your time 00:20:09.349 --> 00:20:11.650 and attention. Have an excellent time building 00:20:11.650 --> 00:20:13.930 out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.