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Trazzler recommends trips — original, hand-picked, concise travel experiences — customized for your location and travel personality. [NEW INFO HERE] We got started in 2007 when Adam Rugel, a veteran of the online travel industry from back in the glory days of AOL, and Biz Stone, a social media entrepreneur who likes to think creatively, had a chat over pistachio nuts in the original Twitter kitchen. Biz suggested a crazy idea involving "virtual teleportation." The first version of Trazzler was born as a Facebook application whipped up by Adam, Biz, and Dave Du Verle. Based in part on the app, but also on our plans for a website, we received a fbFund Grant in the summer of 2008. With funding, we were able to bring on a developer, Adam Weller (Adam Rugel's friend from kindergarten), who built www.trazzler.com as a one-man-band until his friend Ryan Eschinger started helping in the summer of '09. Back to the hand-picked content... Megan Cytron (Adam Rugel's friend from AOL) started with Trazzler as a freelance writer, then quickly took on the role of establishing Trazzler's unique editorial philosophy, hiring and managing our freelance writers, and running our contests.
Friends and family investors include Evan Williams, Robert Rugel, Adam Rugel, Jack Dorsey, and Abdur Chowdhury. We recently closed a seed round of funding that will be announced here in the coming weeks.
Freelance Writers
- Tracie Broom
- Mike Rugel
- Phillip Orchard
- Cheri Lucas
- Kristen Hall Geisler
- John Vlahides
- Tiffany Hawk
- Kristen Tribe
- Meagan Francis
- Rebecca Ford
- Nina Roberts
- Lark Ellen Gould
- Lauren Carter
- Eamon Downes
- Tim Chester
- Roberta Kruger
- Kate Nerenberg
- Kim Foley Mackinnon
- Susan King
- Tina Jett
- Greg Thomas
- Barbara Weibel
- Gareth Thornton
- Paul Koning
- Amanda Scotese
- Kara Williams
- Christine Cantera
- Katie Hammel
- Jeff Jenkins
- Tai Kuncio
- Katie Hammel
- Bartley J. D'Alfonso
- Shara Johnson
- Morgan Seag
- Chris Ferro
- Karl Ritzler
- Melinda Barlow
- Jodi Tidwell
- Daniel Djang
- Tessa James
- Adrienne C Wilson
- Ashwin Sodhi
- Rachel Zagrocki Pommier
- Christina Brzustoski
- Lavanya Kilaru
- Kate McFarlane
- Malerie Yolen-Cohen
- Joe Burke
- Chris Hawkins
- Zak Silverman
- Alicia Miller
- Jennifer Field
- Roxi Slemp
- Lee Kitzis
- Sandy Eisentrout Allen
- Cynthia A. Scarborough
- Robert Ellsworth
- Laura Nathan
- Cindy Aitken
- Matt Maggi
- Craig Nelson
- Elliott Gaines
- Nicholas Rowlands
- Beckie Leung
- Eamon Downes
- Muon Van
- Denise Seith
- Marilyn L. Geary
- Corinne Vail
- Lori Wilson
- Ifang Hsieh
- Simon Gray
- Amiee Maxwell
- Jessica Stout
- Diana Springfield
- Christina Tse
- Adam Bailey
- Marian Liou Black
- Alicia Miller
- Brian Lauvray
- Peter Dorrien Traisci
- Doug Mack
- Kevin Michael Capp
- Courtney Scott
- Alex Dweezy Dwyer
- Sandra Foster Lovas
- Paul Justin Cox III
- Kate Sommers
- Marie Elena Martinez
- Stephanie Fine Sasse
- Traci Hui
- Craig Bridger
- Ethan Gelber
- Thalia Kwok
- Karen Dion
- Kendra Hoover
- Julie Hammonds
- David Chachere
- Kimberly Wadsworth
- Anne-Sophie Redisch
- Sami
- Hrvoje Karalic
- Gladys Glover
- Yoshi Salaverry
- Beth Green
- Susan Stafford
- Kelly Aspen
- Rodica Woodbury
- Molly Weis
- John Geary
- Kisha Solomon
- Jim Simpson
- Sarah Campbell
- Sara Kate Egan
- Sarah Campbell
Partners
We work with organizations such as NYCGO, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, Stowe Area Association, Louisville CVB, JetBlue, Joie de Vivre Hotels, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and more.
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"Trazzler is a form of pornography. I like to call it J. Peterman without the pants." — Rose Sélavy