About Plotline
An iOS app that turns the travel videos you save on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube into a real map, and a real plan.
Why we built it
Every traveler we knew had the same problem. Hundreds of saved TikToks. Instagram folders full of rooftop bars in cities you haven't visited yet. YouTube watch histories thick with "3 days in Lisbon" vlogs you binged before a trip and forgot a week later. Real recommendations from real travelers, and almost none of them ever turning into a real plan.
The gap between "I want to go there" and "I'm going there" was almost entirely organizational. Plotline is the bridge: share a video, and every place mentioned lands as a pin on your personal travel map. Build a Collection for your next trip, and your scroll becomes your itinerary.
By the numbers
Who's behind it
Jeffery Gao
Jeffery has spent the past five years traveling and working remotely, accumulating exactly the kind of saved-folder graveyard that Plotline was built to fix. Before Plotline, he was on Capital One's internal corporate strategy consulting team, working directly with the C-suite on the company's most strategic problems. He then moved to Hopper, where he led corporate finance on the Finance & Strategy team, negotiating multi-million-dollar deals with banks like RBC, NuBank, and HSBC, and airlines including WestJet, Frontier, and Wizz Air. He graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
John Li
John was a lead developer on Remitly's Trust Platform and Remitly Business, helping scale both from zero to one. Over his five years there, Remitly went public, grew revenue 5x, and became profitable. Before Remitly, he worked at Capital One. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brina Bodnar
Brina spent three years building Remitly's Trust Platform before joining Plotline. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz.