People & Business - This Entrepreneur Moved His Business From His Apartment To All The 7 Continents
- 6 years ago
Bruce Poon Tip Was About to Shut Down his Business but he Changed his Mind.
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When he was 22 years old, he founded his travel company G Adventures on two maxed out credit cards.
Poon Tip wanted to create experiences for travelers that would combine backpacking and middle-of-the-road travel while introducing people to local people, not just tourist attractions.
But that did not proceed well, years later the company was about to go out of business.
It was a trip to his 100th country, Tibet in 1997 that he had taken to clear his head that changed his thinking about how he should run his business completely.
Poon Tip was amazed about how the people were guided by their hearts and spirituality.
After more than two decades in business, that mission and emotion-driven philosophy has powered the company
From his apartment in Toronto to 23 offices all over the world that offer more than 650 tours on all seven continents to 150,000 travelers a year.
Poon Tip founded Planeterra in 2013, which aims at raising funds to help aid underserved communities all over the globe.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business.
It is the first business book to get the stamp of approval from the Dalai Lama.
“To truly innovate you have to draw from a place you don’t know. You have to find new things that inspire you. Try new things, take up new hobbies. I do it all the time.” – Bruce Poon Tip
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When he was 22 years old, he founded his travel company G Adventures on two maxed out credit cards.
Poon Tip wanted to create experiences for travelers that would combine backpacking and middle-of-the-road travel while introducing people to local people, not just tourist attractions.
But that did not proceed well, years later the company was about to go out of business.
It was a trip to his 100th country, Tibet in 1997 that he had taken to clear his head that changed his thinking about how he should run his business completely.
Poon Tip was amazed about how the people were guided by their hearts and spirituality.
After more than two decades in business, that mission and emotion-driven philosophy has powered the company
From his apartment in Toronto to 23 offices all over the world that offer more than 650 tours on all seven continents to 150,000 travelers a year.
Poon Tip founded Planeterra in 2013, which aims at raising funds to help aid underserved communities all over the globe.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business.
It is the first business book to get the stamp of approval from the Dalai Lama.
“To truly innovate you have to draw from a place you don’t know. You have to find new things that inspire you. Try new things, take up new hobbies. I do it all the time.” – Bruce Poon Tip