Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ...
by ghaff on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:19PM
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I definitely take some trips where my approach is to pick a destination and give someone a credit card number and say "Make it so."
But I got a weird vibe reading this article about effectively "digital nomad as a service" sort of thing.
And, as you say, you're either just a travel agent--in which case, how much value are you actually adding? Or you really are handholding and that requires a lot of feet on the street. (And brings me back to this being some sort of digital nomad as a service with guides. Which is OK I guess. But seems strange.)
Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ...
by jermaustin1 on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:25PM
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It seems like they were the second, each group had 2 employees travelling with them. Which isn't bad especially in countries you might not be familiar with or speak the language.
Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ...
by ghaff on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:39PM
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I get it. I have taken guided trips when I have either not felt comfortable doing it myself, it was complicated/impossible logistically, or I just wanted a group. Something about a guided year-long digital nomad experience just feels odd though.
That being said, this sounds like a case of people who read aspirational Medium.com articles, getting got by the type of people who write those articles.
A business model that offers you the chance to seamlessly jet across different countries, with your lodging and workspace already set up the moment you land? I would think the logistics of such a business would need more local staff, more money and more liability protection than what a few dudes could put together with their savings and personal loans.