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With Deep Sorrow, We Share the Passing of Jay Tindall
Dear Friends of Remote Lands, We are all shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our dear friend and colleague, Jay Tindall. Jay was a true entrepreneur and a great adventurer. He was deeply passionate about Asia, and loved traveling to remote destinations from Papua New Guinea to North Korea to Saudi Arabia. He and I had many amazing trips together over the years to places like Tibet, Myanmar, Bhutan, Oman and all over China including the spectacular Wulingyuan “Avatar Forest”. One of my fondest and most exciting memories is flying into Kathmandu together and taking a helicopter to Everest Base Camp.
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WITH DEEP SORROW, WE SHARE THE PASSING OF
Dear Friends of Remote Lands,
We are all shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our dear friend and colleague, Jay Tindall. Jay was a true entrepreneur and a great adventurer. He was deeply passionate about Asia, and loved traveling to remote destinations from Papua New Guinea to North Korea to Saudi Arabia. He and I had many amazing trips together over the years to places like Tibet, Myanmar, Bhutan, Oman and all over China including the spectacular Wulingyuan “Avatar Forest”. One of my fondest and most exciting memories is flying into Kathmandu together and taking a helicopter to Everest Base Camp.
Even though we lived on opposite sides of the globe, with him in Bangkok and me in New York, we spoke frequently and worked closely together every day. I often said that the secret to our working relationship was mutual trust, both in terms of honesty but also trusting each other’s judgment. We didn’t always agree on everything (although we usually did, fortunately) but we had an expression “do you feel strongly about this?” If one of us did, then that opinion would prevail. He was instrumental in helping to lead Remote Lands to where we are today as we are about to celebrate our 20th year anniversary.
I first met Jay in 1990 at the Apple booth at a New Media conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. I was living in Hong Kong at the time and had started my first company InterOptica Publishing Ltd, and I was there with Apple showing my travel e-books “Great Cities of the World” and “Great Wonders of the World” on CD-ROM. Jay was working in video and he loved new technology, and CD-ROMs and new media were truly cutting edge 35 years ago. He was interested in moving to Hong Kong to run our software development, which he subsequently did, and he loved living in Asia and traveling everywhere. We opened China’s first software factory in Guangzhou in 1992 and we went through many crazy times in those days (mind-blowing stories!). To make a very long story short, I sold out and moved back to New York in 1994 (the company is now called Take-Two Interactive — TTWO on the New York Stock Exchange and owner of Rock Star Games and Grand Theft Auto, one of the most popular video games of all times).
Jay stayed on in Hong Kong and started The Black Box, an award-winning interactive media company with clients such as Apple, Intel, and MTV Asia. Later, he helped grow Orientation.com into a multilingual Internet portal with localized content in 35 countries and 17 languages—recognized by Red Herring as the “Yahoo of the Developing World” and by Deloitte as one of the Silicon Alley Fast 50.
In 2005 Jay was living back in the US and we reconnected. I had the idea of starting an Asia luxury travel company, and I needed a partner. He was all in, and Remote Lands was born. Everyone thought we were insane — “Why would you focus on Asia? No one goes to Asia. Americans want to go to Europe”. We were contrarians, and thankfully ahead of our times. Asia was the only thing we loved and were any good at, so we stuck to our knitting.Social media changed everything... and we were ready, especially with Jay’s tech savvy. Suddenly Asia was super cool, and no one else understood ultra-luxe Asia like we did. For once in my life, I was in the right place at the right time. Not too early nor too late.
We launched in 2006 and no one knew who we were initially, so we went through a roller coaster ride from the GFC in 2008-2009 to the Pandemic in 2020-2023. Nothing was ever easy. But we talked frequently and we stayed positive, and we got through it all. He always said “In chaos there is opportunity” and we always made that happen. We grew exponentially thanks to our deep knowledge of Asia and our strong teams on the ground in 38 countries.
Now fast forward to 2025 and we just had our best year ever by far. Our current team is the finest we have ever had by a long shot. We are so sorry to lose Jay, but his legacy lives on and everything he has done for Remote Lands continues on, especially our AI-powered CRM which he was instrumental in creating which makes us exponentially more efficient. We will miss him very much, but fortunately the future looks very bright and he can be proud of his legacy.
In remembrance,
Co-Founder & CEO
Remote Lands
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WITH DEEP SORROW, WE SHARE THE PASSING OF
JAY TINDALL
Dear Friends of Remote Lands,We are all shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our dear friend and colleague, Jay Tindall. Jay was a true entrepreneur and a great adventurer. He was deeply passionate about Asia, and loved traveling to remote destinations from Papua New Guinea to North Korea to Saudi Arabia. He and I had many amazing trips together over the years to places like Tibet, Myanmar, Bhutan, Oman and all over China including the spectacular Wulingyuan “Avatar Forest”. One of my fondest and most exciting memories is flying into Kathmandu together and taking a helicopter to Everest Base Camp.
Even though we lived on opposite sides of the globe, with him in Bangkok and me in New York, we spoke frequently and worked closely together every day. I often said that the secret to our working relationship was mutual trust, both in terms of honesty but also trusting each other’s judgment. We didn’t always agree on everything (although we usually did, fortunately) but we had an expression “do you feel strongly about this?” If one of us did, then that opinion would prevail. He was instrumental in helping to lead Remote Lands to where we are today as we are about to celebrate our 20th year anniversary.
I first met Jay in 1990 at the Apple booth at a New Media conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. I was living in Hong Kong at the time and had started my first company InterOptica Publishing Ltd, and I was there with Apple showing my travel e-books “Great Cities of the World” and “Great Wonders of the World” on CD-ROM. Jay was working in video and he loved new technology, and CD-ROMs and new media were truly cutting edge 35 years ago. He was interested in moving to Hong Kong to run our software development, which he subsequently did, and he loved living in Asia and traveling everywhere. We opened China’s first software factory in Guangzhou in 1992 and we went through many crazy times in those days (mind-blowing stories!). To make a very long story short, I sold out and moved back to New York in 1994 (the company is now called Take-Two Interactive — TTWO on the New York Stock Exchange and owner of Rock Star Games and Grand Theft Auto, one of the most popular video games of all times).
Jay stayed on in Hong Kong and started The Black Box, an award-winning interactive media company with clients such as Apple, Intel, and MTV Asia. Later, he helped grow Orientation.com into a multilingual Internet portal with localized content in 35 countries and 17 languages—recognized by Red Herring as the “Yahoo of the Developing World” and by Deloitte as one of the Silicon Alley Fast 50.
In 2005 Jay was living back in the US and we reconnected. I had the idea of starting an Asia luxury travel company, and I needed a partner. He was all in, and Remote Lands was born. Everyone thought we were insane — “Why would you focus on Asia? No one goes to Asia. Americans want to go to Europe”. We were contrarians, and thankfully ahead of our times. Asia was the only thing we loved and were any good at, so we stuck to our knitting.Social media changed everything... and we were ready, especially with Jay’s tech savvy. Suddenly Asia was super cool, and no one else understood ultra-luxe Asia like we did. For once in my life, I was in the right place at the right time. Not too early nor too late.
We launched in 2006 and no one knew who we were initially, so we went through a roller coaster ride from the GFC in 2008-2009 to the Pandemic in 2020-2023. Nothing was ever easy. But we talked frequently and we stayed positive, and we got through it all. He always said “In chaos there is opportunity” and we always made that happen. We grew exponentially thanks to our deep knowledge of Asia and our strong teams on the ground in 38 countries.
Now fast forward to 2025 and we just had our best year ever by far. Our current team is the finest we have ever had by a long shot. We are so sorry to lose Jay, but his legacy lives on and everything he has done for Remote Lands continues on, especially our AI-powered CRM which he was instrumental in creating which makes us exponentially more efficient. We will miss him very much, but fortunately the future looks very bright and he can be proud of his legacy.
In remembrance,
Co-Founder & CEORemote Lands
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