Three people. One network.
BBE isn't a platform. It's the people who walk you into the city. Bryant connects the dots. Ezequiel and Jonas are on the ground when your trip is actually happening.
Why I built this.
I went to Rio for Carnival 2020. A week later the world caught COVID, the borders closed, and I was stuck. What was supposed to be a quick trip turned into six months. Six months turned into six years. That is not a vacation, it is a different relationship to a country than most travelers will ever have.
Speaking Portuguese opened the real city up: mothers who fed me, friends who walked me into parties because their cousin was the DJ. I built those relationships before any fame caught up. DJ Talie before she went mainstream, Ezequiel back when he sold caipirinhas on the beach, Jonas through our boy Yuri.
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Every connection in the BBE network is one I made myself, one year at a time. The barber inside the favela. The mãe-de-santo who lets respectful visitors into her terreiro. The friend who walks you into a party because his cousin is the DJ. None of that is a product on a shelf. It took six years to earn.
After a while, friends from home started flying down. Then their friends. By the time about fifteen groups had come through, every single one of them told me the same thing: you should be doing this for a living. So I built BBE. Not a travel agency, but the network I spent six years building, finally opened up to the people who deserve to walk in.
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