JordanMiller
Entrepreneur. Investor. Artist. Community Builder.
Building businesses. Making music. Bringing people together. Trying to live an interesting life.
One life, several rooms
I've never been particularly interested in choosing one lane.
For most of my life I was told the same thing in different words: pick a thing, go deep, and let the rest go. I understood the logic. I just never believed it. The person who builds a payments company and the person who plays records until two in the morning are not two people managing a scheduling conflict. They're the same person, curious in the same way, about how things actually work and who's in the room.
So this site isn't a résumé. It's closer to a field recording — businesses I'm building, music I'm making, the tables I keep trying to make longer, the things I'm reading and arguing with. Some of it is polished. Most of it is in progress. That's the honest version.
— Jordan
The work is unglamorous, and that's the point
Payments is plumbing. It's regulation, risk, trust and a thousand unspectacular decisions that decide whether a business gets paid on a Friday. I've spent my career in that world — building companies, operating them, and backing founders doing the same. Placeholder copy: replace with the specifics of the companies and the thesis.
What I'm building
Then the other half of the week
I play and produce as DJ Jordan Miller, and I build in music through Mixmode. A set is a business problem with better lighting: read the room, take a risk, hold your nerve. Placeholder copy: replace with residencies, releases and the sound.
Listen
Almost everything good started at a table
Austin, Jewish life, philanthropy, and a monthly gathering called Third Thursday that started small and refused to stay that way. I'm not especially good at networking. I'm decent at hosting. Placeholder copy: replace with organizations, roles and the story of Third Thursday.
Community
And the parts that don't fit on a résumé
Training early. Travelling badly and often. Faith, family, long dinners, books I keep re-reading and arguments I enjoy losing. Placeholder copy: replace with the real texture.
LifeWhat I'm Building
Selected companies, projects and bets
A working list rather than a portfolio page. Some are companies I operate, some are investments, one is a monthly dinner.
- PaymentsAuthorized Credit Card SystemsMerchant payment processing. Placeholder summary — details, dates and scope to be supplied.Active
- PaymentsPayboticPayments for high-complexity, highly-regulated industries. Placeholder summary.Active
- PaymentsCannabisPayHubPayment solutions built for the cannabis industry. Placeholder summary.Active
- MusicMixmodeMusic project. Placeholder summary — description to be supplied.Active
- MusicDJ Jordan MillerSets, mixes and production. Placeholder summary — bookings and releases to be added.Active
Music
DJ Jordan Millerand Mixmode
Warm, patient, low-end-forward sets built for rooms where people are talking to each other. Placeholder copy: replace with sound description, residencies and where to hear it.
- Alias
- DJ Jordan Miller
- Project
- Mixmode
- Home room
- Austin, TX
Community
Getting good people in the same room, on purpose, repeatedly
Austin gave me a city worth investing in. Jewish life gave me a calendar that insists on gathering. Third Thursday is what happens when you take both seriously and put a date on it.
Austin
Civic involvement and the people building here. Placeholder.
Jewish leadership
Boards, giving, and showing up. Placeholder.
Third Thursday
A monthly gathering that keeps growing. Placeholder.
Philanthropy
Quietly, and where it compounds. Placeholder.
Life
There is a lot of life outside the work
Training before the day starts. Travel that changes the way I think. Food, faith, friendships kept up over decades, and a running list of things I'm trying to be less bad at.
Now
What I'm actually doing this month
Building
Payments work across the operating businesses. Placeholder — specifics to be supplied.
Thinking About
Why the most durable businesses look boring from the outside.
Learning
Placeholder — a skill, course, or subject currently in progress.
Reading
Placeholder — current book, with a one-line reaction.
Ideas
Thinking out loud
Say hello
No pitch. Just an open door.
If we met somewhere, if you're building something interesting, if you want to come to a dinner, or if you just want to argue about a record — write to me. I read everything and answer most of it.