Entrepreneur. Innkeeper. Vacation Rental Expert. Tech Guru.
I was born and raised in Metro Detroit. Go Lions! Go Pilots! Go Blue!
I moved to New York City after college and that set the stage for the rest of my life.
I started my career in Information Security at Goldman Sachs, where I wrote one of the first web logging programs in existence for the firm. (I can say that most of those initial web visits were clearly not work related.) I then moved to an e-commerce startup called InterWorld that was a victim (?) of the dot-com crash. I next moved on to run an ISP called way.com and start Clubplanet.com, the first online nightlife guide and guestlist service for NYC nightclubs. That morphed into multiple other businesses including NewYears.com, Track Entertainment, Wantickets and Cool Junkie.
After finding myself in a bit of a NYC burnout after 14+ years of living and working in the city, I moved to Buenos Aires for “a year” to experience a different culture, learn Spanish and live on my savings. Eight years, a wife and two kids later, I moved to Killington, Vermont. (Pre-Covid! I’m so smart – or just damn lucky.) I’ve been involved in the short-term rental business for years in Killington, managing both my own and others’ properties and using my tech skills to maximize revenue for our owners while also enhancing the guest experience. I’ve recently purchased a Vermont Inn and became an innkeeper as well!
Pop-Up Dave McComb
Time moves too quickly…
I love living with my family in Killington, Vermont…though I miss NYC sometimes.
- The founder of Google once slept on DaVe’s couch in New York City. However, he has not yet responded to the recent bill that was sent to him for that stay.
- That makes two billionaires that DaVe personally knows. He also hung out with the founder of Coinbase in Buenos Aires. Elon, ready to meet up?
- DaVe founded Clubplanet.com as a way to avoid standing in lines to get into clubs. It worked.
- DaVe was one of the first 20 people at InterWorld, an early e-commerce company. He was promised that they would all be sailing around NYC on their own personal yachts. That never quite happened.
- DaVe has been to Burning Man and plans to return again at some point. This was one of the best experiences of his life – before becoming a father.
- Get everything in writing.
- DaVe loves to travel and would do only that if he could. He has been to four of the seven continents so he has a bit more traveling to do to hit them all.
- DaVe is an avid bargain hunter and prides himself on finding the best deal – even if that means spending more time looking for the deal/coupon/promotion than that extra deal is even worth.
- Dave is a perfetcionist
- DaVe started writing his name with a capital “V” during an internship at BNR when working with several other Dave’s. He has kept that signature in his email, but does not write it that way on paper. DaVe is pronounced the same as Dave.
- DaVe does not update his personal website frequently. (Most of these items were written in 2010, but recently cleaned up a bit in 2024!)
- In February 2024, the University of Michigan decided (after almost 30 years) that they were no longer going to store my files and sent me a download. I present to you, My Own WayBack Machine! The first website I ever created.
- DaVe does not usually write about himself in the third person.
