I'm Olivier Travers, an internet publishing entrepreneur in some fashion or other since 1999. These past years at Watershed Publishing I've co-founded B2B publications serving concise content to their respective industries on a daily basis, such as MarketingVox and Defense Industry Daily. Leading the operations team (sales, ad trafficking, tech) for these sites is what's keeping me busy. My professional profile is available on LinkedIn.

I published a group weblog called TheEndOfFree.com from 2002 to 2005 which at the time was well known for its ongoing coverage of fee-based web services and paid online content. I also always have a couple of side projects and experiments cooking such as our SciFan database of science fiction and fantasy authors, or the TaxPrinter file recovery service.

Oliviertravers.com is my personal site and blog where I've inflicted technical and anarcho-capitalist blowhard rants on an unsuspecting audience since 2000.

Contact info

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Quick bio

Olivier Travers and sites he contributed to creating have been referenced by news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Economist, Slashdot, the BBC, SearchEngineWatch, Clickz and Fast Company.

Born in 1971, Olivier graduated from ESSCA in 1993 (one of the top 30 French business schools). He worked in sales and marketing positions at big IT companies such as Microsoft and AT&T in the nineties, then moved on to smaller internet ventures with the uneven but thrilling boom-and-bust track record shared by most online veterans.

Olivier is originally from France, lived in Germany, Italy and Portugal, and is currently based in Chile with his wife Sophie and their two children. He is bilingual in English and French, can decipher Spanish and has very, very limited remnants of Italian, Portuguese, and German.