CURRENT MISSION

Manifest a Perfect Destiny

ABOUT ME

I am an adventurer and an entrepreneur with an eternal commitment to self improvement. Born in Ukraine, and immigrated to US at age of 10, I changed my name to "Allan Grant" as a statement of my dream of becoming a world-changing entrepreneur. My life vision is to create value for the world through enterprise, and then create sustainable philanthropic ventures from my profits. My dream is to once day become a space entrepreneur. On my path, I face the most amazing and challenging experiences, see remote places, meet incredible people, and enjoy everything life has to offer. Often I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive.

PHILOSOPHY

I live to experience, learn, create, and redefine myself. I strive to be productive, intelligent, fearless, and strong. I'm an act utilitarian, a capitalist, and a free thinker. I want to be a force of good in the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Immediately following the "perfect storm" and destruction of CouchSurfing 1.0, I spent three days at the first CouchSurfing collective helping create the vision of a collaborative organization (my long-time dream of "community-driven development") while Casey was recovering the code from the crash. Now, I host people as often as I can, showing CouchSurfers the best local parties. When I travel, I often contact CouchSurfers to find out where to party in their cities.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met some of my closest friends through CouchSurfing, and we have changed each others' lives.

Interests

Freedom. Loving, Learning, Creating, Experiencing. Interesting People, Business/Entrepreneurship, Helping People, Adventures, Music, Dancing, Passionate Sex, Beaches, Parties, Goa (India), Burning Man, Kazantip, Bars, Clubs, Festivals, Road-trips, Hiking, Sky Diving, Sailing, Philosophy, Enlightenment, Yoga, Oneness, Science, Programming, Web 2.0.

• festivals
• dancing
• yoga
• partying
• clubbing
• traveling
• coding
• music
• hiking
• adventure races
• scuba diving
• sailing
• rock climbing
• business
• entrepreneurship
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
Hip-Hop (Binary Star, Outkast, Blackalicious, Mos Def, The Roots, Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, Big L, 2pac, biggie, early 90s stuff, oldskool shit, underground shit, thumpin shit you can dance to), IDM (Aphex Twin, Telefon Tel Aviv, Squarepusher, Plaid), Downtempo (Morcheeba, Jazzanova, Cafe del Mar, Massive Attack, Tahiti 80, Thievery Corporation), Psytrance (Infected Mushroom, Hallucinogen), Old Psychedelic Rock (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Love, Bob Marley), alternative rock (Travis, Eels, E, Poe, Radiohead, Sneaker Pimps, Rilo Kiley, Flaming Lips), old electronica (Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk), Russian (LUBE, Kasta, Leningrad)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Discussed good & evil with Manu in Goa, India, before climbing a mount to watch the sunrise over Morjim beach...

Teach, Learn, Share

Happy to talk any day about entrepreneurship and ruby on rails development. Just email me: allan@allangrant.net

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