About OPEN ENDS

Built around the people you have not met yet.

A travel experience created for curious, ambitious people who know that the best part of going somewhere is often who you find there.

Mayank, founder and host of OPEN ENDS, at the beach with a surfboard
Meet Mayank

The person behind OPEN ENDS.

I’ve spent the last 12+ years building businesses, experimenting across industries, investing, travelling, and generally being curious about how things work.

Over the last decade, I travelled quite a bit—but the places were never the only thing I remembered. It was always the people. The unexpected conversation. The random introduction. The person you met for a few hours and somehow ended up learning from for years.

That is where the idea for OPEN ENDS came from. I wanted to create trips where the destination is only part of the story—and the people you meet can become the unexpected part.

Friends sharing a meal outdoors
The idea

Some things only happen
when you go somewhere new.

Put the right people somewhere new and something shifts. Conversations last longer, routines disappear and people open up in ways they rarely do back home.

That’s why where we go matters just as much as how we travel.

What guides us

A few things OPEN ENDS will always hold onto.

01

People are part of the curation

We do not just choose where the group goes. We give equal care to who will be there.

02

The trip comes first

It should feel like a genuinely great holiday, even if no new business idea or connection comes from it.

03

Nothing is forced

The most meaningful things happen naturally, with no agenda, pitch or expectation attached.

04

Leave room for open ends

Not everything meaningful can be planned. We deliberately make room for what might unfold.

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Great places. Interesting people. Possibilities you cannot plan for.

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