If you knew that you will meet your “The One” in a very spontaneous adventure, would you do it? Everyone secretly hopes that the love of their life will be waiting for them when their plane lands. Or better yet, that their special someone will be traveling with them to an exciting new city sipping complimentary white wine and picking out favorites from travel guides in flight. Traveling is fun – you’re in a new city and you’re going with the flow. Love abroad should mirror that easy-going nature as well. Taiga Zhang actually made this serendipitous moment possible through Fairytrail, a dating app made for single digital nomads and people who just like traveling and having fun.

Taige Zhang, the founder of Fairytrail, joins our hosts Andrew Jernigan and Allen Koski in talking about dating and meeting new people as digital nomads in this fun-filled adventure called traveling. While technology brings out options that we could have never had before, our three nomads discussed safety measures that would keep us safe while we navigate the dating space. This episode of The New Nomad is full of possibilities and as long as we take the necessary precautions, we can have fun meeting new people in different places - and make your own fairytale.

[4:55] The adventure of meeting someone new

[9:43] Putting a price on respect

[15:45] Location is irrelevant nowadays

[18:13] I like you before I met you

[20:25] Random travels are the best

[25:57] Making friends, sharing experiences

GUEST BIO:

Taige Zhang is the founder of Fairytrail, a dating app for nomads. Previously, he worked at Apple, Rocket Internet, and various startups worldwide.

After working for tech companies from Palo Alto to Berlin to Shanghai, Taige Zhang had the idea to create a new type of dating app called Fairytrail for travelers and people who are interested in meeting someone who lives in a different city or county. In this episode, Taige talks about how he was able to land jobs in foreign countries where he could live and work as an ex-pat, what it was like to date abroad, how to meet people when you move to a new country, and how he coped with cultural differences. He also discusses how he hopes to innovate and improve the online dating experience, why Fairytrail is different, and how they ended up with more women than men on the platform. In the lightning round, we cover his favorite countries to visit and live in, the best food he’s had abroad, and his favorite productivity tools and apps.

Taige Zhang Links:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/taigezhang
Twitter: taigeair
Website:  wellingtonstravel.com

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