Excited to be here with y'all! I actually joined the trial last year but had to bounce for personal reasons. I'm 26, studied to be a Photoshop pixel pusher, then did some freelance copywriting, and then decided hey....I h8 chasing clients! Ronin spoke to me like the guardian angel that was always there. I always knew I'd be a businessman since I was small, watched movies seeing men in suits shaking hands discussing deals, "I'll only take 20 off the top", and mostly movies like Straight Outta Compton and Get On Up where I was exposed to record deals, and how the label managers get paid. I never knew what it meant. I thought royalties were small change. But it builds up slowly, and the fact that you can choose how much work you want to put in, reducing your own cut so you don't have to pushy no buttons, is REVOLUTIONARY in my eyes as someone who used to stay till 12am at the design studio for pennies. Bottom line, I'd rather be the manager than the musician. Thanks Travis for your hard work and generosity to provide us with gold, lots and lots of it! I'm excited to connect with y'all fellow Ronin 🥷

"Nobody ever asked." That's what she said when I asked if any restaurant had ever paid for referrals. 600 guests a month. Walking into a city they don't know. Hungry. Lost. Credit card ready. And the restaurant next door never thought to ask. I was just visiting family. My wife's aunt owns a 48-room hotel. She told me she wanted to grow the hotel, so I started asking questions. She told me guests would ask "where can I eat around here" every single day. That was my tell. I opened my laptop. Over the weekend, with beer and Claude, I built a local concierge page. She gives me credentials. I make it live. Deal I proposed: "I build it. I maintain it. You pay nothing. When partners start paying for placement - we split." She said yes before I finished. Here's why that structure works: I had zero leverage walking in. So I went in free. Delivered first. Now I negotiate from value proven, not value promised. She's not in the "room" business. She's in the "people distribution" business. I'm in the ACO business. One hotel = 2-3k/month, fully automated. My city alone has 58 more in the same category. You don't need to own the road. You need a toll position on a road that already has traffic. Nobody ever asked that restaurant. I just asked first. What's flowing right past you today that nobody's bothered to monetize? (If you do it too, I'm happy with a 10% cut :)