Nate Hake

Founder, Travel Lemming

Nate is the founder of Travel Lemming and an vocal advocate for online creators in the age of AI. The same year that Nate founded Travel Lemming, he attended this first TBEX in Ireland, a conference that helped him grow the site from a hobby blog to a full time business. Today Travel Lemming features guides from a team of local experts, and hosts a podcast and in-person community meet-up groups in 8 cities in the USA & Canada. Nate is a recovering lawyer who has been traveling the world nomadically since 2017, with a particular fondness for Mexico, Thailand, and Argentina. On the platform X, he is an outspoken critic of what he views as efforts by Big Tech companies to use AI to cut creators out of the open web.