Chris Guillebeau is an Americannonfiction author, blogger and speaker. He is best known for The Art of Non-Conformityblog and book. He has also written guides for travel and small business topics under the brand Unconventional Guides. He organizes the annual World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. The Art of Non-Conformity blog discusses entrepreneurship, travel, and personal development topics; its traffic grew substantially after the online publication of A Brief Guide to World Domination in 2008. The site has an Alexa ranking of under 200,000 and is among the top 100,000 most visited sites in the United States.
Guillebeau is a graduate of Athens State University and the University of Washington. He volunteered with Mercy Ships, a medical charity, in West Africa from 2002-2006. He cites that experience as a pivotal point in his life that led him to his quest to do community service and fundraising, topics featured in his writing. Guillebeau lives in Portland with his wife, Jolie. He spent years working to travel to every country in the world by age 35. On April 4, 2013, he visited the final country in his journey to visit all 193 countries, although his visit to Eritrea consisted of nothing more than time in Asmara International Airport and his visit to North Korea consisted of visiting the negotiation hut in the DMZ between North and South Korea. The last country was Norway where he held a party.
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Guillebeau published The Art of Non-Conformity following the success of the blog. Guillebeau has stated that all proceeds from the book will be donated to. From September 2010 to January 2011, Guillebeau stopped in 63 cities from among every US state and Canadian province to promote the book. Guillebeau's second book, The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future, was released on May 8, 2012. It reached #6 in its respective category on the New York Times' bestseller list. Guillebeau released his third book, The Happiness of Pursuit, on September 9, 2014. His fourth book, Born For This, was released on April 5, 2016. He also maintains a blog at Anderson Cooper 360. and has written for Business Week.
