Travis Jamison

Hi, I'm Travis

I build companies, sometimes sell them, and write about the mess in between.

Right now I’m investing in lower middle-market acquisitions of “boring businesses” and running an AI SEO agency, two things that sound unrelated until you realize they’re both about finding value others overlook.

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Travis Jamison

Hi, I'm Travis

I build companies, sometimes sell them, and write about the mess in between.

Right now I’m investing in lower middle-market acquisitions of “boring businesses” and running an AI SEO agency, two things that sound unrelated until you realize they’re both about finding value others overlook.

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Latest Articles

𓃓 Banana-land markets: The bull case few want to make

8 reasons for optimism when everything looks batshit crazy


🥂 Status at the expense of independence

The monk versus the millionaire


📉 How I think about market crashes

Pray for the crash?


♠️ Poker, risk, and avoiding financial blowups

Also ego, not losing at tennis, and choosing your battles wisely.


🤔 What rising rates are doing to asset prices (and why)

Some implosions, purchasing power, and cashflow vs enterprise value.


💡 Branding advice from a master

And how he saved me from a meltdown.


☀️ Light, Celsius death blow, a better analytics, & dopamine hits

Two random tools and some crypto news.


👍 My formula to guarantee a good productive day

How to feel great, optimize the brain, and live more at ease.


🤖 Diving into the crazy new ChatGPT

What it is, what it does, applications for it, and changes it WILL bring.


🫂 Frens R Gud

Downmarket survival, smart lazy investors, SBA loans, FTX theme song.


🤡 Swimming naked, sticky inflation and a clown show

How transitory is inflation (a look at history), destroying capital, Metamask IP logging, and some good ole’ grift.


💣 Here we go again… FTX

Gah. I keep on thinking that I’m done talking about crypto, but crazy entertaining shit just keeps on happening.


😲 A real-world example of buying $1 for $.50

My story of a startup, small cash-flowing businesses, and how I recently acquired 6% of a public company Most Buffett


🩸 Blood, profitability, options, and valuations

$SNAP… $META… $AMZN… So it turns out, that in the end, markets actually do care about valuations and free cash


🧘 FounderSummit, The AI Writer, Great Depression Learnings, and DAO Liability

Hey, I’m just catching up after a lovely few days at this year’s FounderSummit, put on by Tyler Tringas from the Calm Fund. If


💸 M1 vs M2 Money Supply, Monetary Policy History, Banning Inflation

No, the Fed did not actually print 5x as much money in 2020 I see the chart above getting hooted


🧠 Learn from failure, not success

I’ve been thinking about failure a lot recently. With markets blowing up, portfolios going south, and the stench of uncertainty


🤡 The Ponzi Meltdown 🤡

A guide to not getting rekt I hadn’t planned to write about Crypto today. I had originally planned to write


✈️ Takeaways from my Berkshire Hathaway pilgrimage

It’s not just for stock pickers Last week I went to Omaha. Joined by thousands of others from every imaginable


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