Travis Chambers

Blue collar private equity is a better place to be the next decade than software, here’s why AI eats software first It’s why I sold my ad agency to build hotels and get my hands dirty PE firms rolling up hvac, manufacturing, roofing, septic, plumbing, not only have the safest outcome short term But they’re also building foundation for deploying AI robots AI robotics eats everything in the next 10 years Elon is miles ahead of everyone else because he chose to build cars, satellites, rockets, tunnels, not just code I’m training my 10 year old son to be an AI robotics fleet manager for this reason I think it’s THE job of the next 20 years Managing the coordination, authority, decision making, and liability of robots Wealth will be primarily measured in how many robots you own and can effectively and safely deploy in the physical world And because I’m post exit and focused on fun and adventure as my man KPI, I’m going to do this in a niche not many people are thinking about or care about, hotels Because when there are few jobs and lots of free time, people travel and will seek experiences as the main measure of quality of life Our core business will be building and staffing hotels with robots We’re going to acquire properties as fast as possible and then leverage then to the max to buy or lease bots We’re buying 534 acres at 4 national parks with 160 existing cash flowing units to deploy $80M of hotel rooms over the next 5 years. Why national parks? Because of what I call “total mobility,” where half the population is prosperous enough to go anytime, anywhere, for any reason. Land at the most beautiful places in the world becomes the most valuable, because in a world where AI does every thing, experiences become more personally valuable than anything else- rare earth minerals, money, property What do you do in a post monetary system with unlimited ease and abundance? You make art, travel, maybe do some hobby farming I have an eternally optimistic view of our future. We have survived here for hundreds of thousands of years, endured an ice age, plagues, viruses, asteroids, volcanoes, and a great flood. We’re still here. We’re in heaven right now. This is it. We’re already transcended Gods who choose to put ourselves into infinite games to experience consciousness deeper, to learn deeper levels of love. What an adventure, what a time to be alive. We’re building Outposts across the land, and it’s a blast!!! OutpostX

This is so wild. Who knew it would do creative first?

I look at everyone spending their days online figuring out how to be relevant in the AI future and I’m just like… why? AI will eventually run the entire internet, so, what is it you actually want to do with your life that isn’t hunching over a laptop? What if you go and do that? I left the internet in 2021 to do the least advisable thing ever, build a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Never been happier and more fulfilled. Not doing one damn thing to build the internet. People are happy at our hotel. I measure my success in smiles. AI can have the internet, I like the real world.

Since 2021, I’ve obsessed over one idea… Building a tropical landscape resort. But not in Costa Rica. Not in Bali. Right here in the US. For 3 years, I struck out repeatedly... until 6 months ago. Here’s the story of my latest project, Baya in Redland, Florida: 🧵

@uniquestaysguy They don’t call him the Wolf of Stays Street for nothing

@HLingutla Dm on insta @travis_chambers

Travis, i have an opportunity that i would love to discuss with you about turning a 100+ acre property thats legit begging to be turned into an experience at a great “location”. I have some good ideas that can game out well for folks in west coast. Where can i reach you at? Cant cold mail or DM here!

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This work-life balance flex is wiiiiiillddd No way I’d have the cahones to do this I think he genuinely believes life is a video game and he’s just trolling NPCs at this point

@ibuyrvparks It really works. Spirit animal a blend of flying squirrel and cockroach.

@travis_chambers New mantra: “be a cockroach” 🔥

I personally closed $30M of deals in pitches in advertising. It is translating astonishingly well in real estate. Sales remains top 3 skill for start-up founder.

@kvcreativetv @FreightAlley Wow where is this? Incredible

@FreightAlley Consider bringing on @travis_chambers as a creative consultant.

I think we can cook up some pretty epic F3 dinners and concerts inside the Motion Museum dome.

@touilhoussem The guy that owns us hit us up to collab on his tours

@travis_chambers One of the film set still exist here in Tunisia. galaxytours.com/starwars-tunis…

@VincentLacape @uniquestaysguy 🙏🤘🤙🏼 Ben is an insight machine and 1% talent writer and thinker. Another cut from the same cloth is @isaacfrench_

@travis_chambers @uniquestaysguy Sometimes you just scroll twitter and it's the worst, but this is the best of twitter, such a great post. Went to youtube to watch some ads from chamber media and they're all awesome, thanks for the inspiration @uniquestaysguy and @travis_chambers!

This guy turned 240 acres of desert into a Star Wars glamping experience. In 8 months, he had: • 80M+ views on IG • $900k raised in pre-sales • Hovering sand cruisers! Here’s the story of how Outpost X went insanely viral🧵:

@ibuyrvparks Vision- seeing what no one else can see and building it = innovation. The actual skill is obsessive studying of an industry and finding unsolved problem. Durability- Being a cockroach that can’t be killed. Persistence. Irrational, naïve, relentless persistence to the mission

@travis_chambers What are the other two?

It was a very painful, grueling 7 year process that ended up being very worth it. When you lean too heavily on investors, you become very dumb and do dumb things. When you don’t have investors, you can become really smart. End of Ted Talk

Do not confuse getting investment with having a business. Sell something to a paying customer and use that revenue to grow a company. I started my last company with $70 LLC and a laptop. No investors.

@NightTimeTrades 1: Engineering for planning and zoning on a dry lake bed- getting an engineer with a practical solution that would stamp. Went through 3 of them, first 2 wasted 8 months of our time. Had us turn over 3 feet of soil for a mile, which the county itself doesn’t do.

@travis_chambers What was the hardest part about building this business?

1: There’s like 1,000X demand for what OutPostX is than supply and we need to add more units pronto. (Just applied for permits to do this) 2: I need to add ways to monetize this attention on OutPostX.

150,000 site visits to OutPostX in the last two months $200k in new bookings from trading free stays with 30 influencers ($25k of stays) Fully booked for months out, there is limited inventory with a hotel… (part 1)