On today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy was back in the hosting chair alongside Melissa Crosby and new co-hosting addition Kaitlyn Dang—both of whom, to be clear, were in their own chairs. They started off with a bit of banter about Joe’s brush with death (he nearly crashed his new “GrepBeat red” vespa).
As always, I jumped in with an update on what’s been going on at GrepBeat.com. This week, we had a fresh edition of the Monday Mix, a fall finale episode of In The Soup, and features on Triangle-area startups Anatra and Grogo and Wilmington startup Artemis Immersive. Also! We announced that our next GrepBeat Book Club read will be “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan. Read it and join us to discuss on January 10th!
Once I got out of the way, our trio of co-hosts welcomed this week’s guest, Annie Combs. Annie is the Co-Founder and CEO of ECPC Travel, which she describes as the “eco-friendly, socially conscious Expedia.” Annie filled us in on her startup’s mission to facilitate conscious travel in a way that simultaneously helps travelers find what they want and uplifts destination communities. From there, it was a four-way conversation covering all kinds of travel experiences and goals (including the “sick girls trips” Annie finds a chunk of her customer base enjoying!).
Watch the full episode on LinkedIn here or on Facebook here.
