UPDATE: it's been exactly 12 months since my project failed and I decided to make an update video about how my life has actually changed for the better because of it. Check it out here:    • Video  

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8 months and 10 days ago I started working on the best business idea I had ever come up with my life. I called it Explorio and it was supposed to become a travel reviews platform that rewards its users for writing travel reviews thus allowing them to fund their travels indefinitely.

As passionate as I was about Explorio, we faced some obstacles on the way that we couldn't resolve and eventually had to close down the project, netting me a loss of over $100,000 and making me the only person who lost money on this venture.

Most people seem to be ashamed to talk about their failures, but I think it's a total waste. That's why I wanted to make this video and share the biggest professional failure of mine ever since launching my first company 9 years ago.

Hope it will inspire you to never give up reaching your dreams.

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Filmed and edited by Andrius Seselgis:   / andrius.seselgis  

Huge thanks to everyone who worked on Explorio. We would never have gone this far without these people.

Team Members:

Linas Vastakas, Ingvaras Merkys, Rikki Guy, Juozas Valancius, Rolandas Simkus, Adomas Jazdauskas, Rhiannon Payne, Asad Zulfahri, Adomas Baltagalvis, Thibault Lemaitre, Leslie Buna.

Advisors:

Ahmed Bhuiyan, Monika Zaman, Dan Trzcinski, Ksenia Repina, Jaro Satkevic, Joshua Steinberg, Robertas Visinskis, Augustas Staras, Fabian Wetekamp.

Influencers:

Alexey Lyakh:   / wanderlust  
Jackson Groves:   / jackson.groves  
Kara And Nate:    / @karaandnate  
MindyTheLion:   / mindy  
TheLifeOfJord:    / thelifeofjord  
Carlos Costa:    / lalosjaja  
Chris The Freelancer:    / @christhefreelancer  
Danny McGee:   / mcgee  
Dan Vineberg:    / @thenewtravel  
Diego Vista:   / diegovista_  
Kevin Eassa:   / kevineassa  
Tim Said:   / thetimsaid  

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