SELECTED THESIS / 01ACTIVE
EMAILSCRATCH
“Email improves when feedback lives beside the draft, not after the send.”
- OPERATING ROLE
- BUILDER
- CURRENT STAGE
- OPERATING
- TIME HORIZON
- Indefinite while useful
OPERATING INDEX / 2026
ANNUAL LETTER ↓OWNER-OPERATED / CURRENT RECORD
Operating interests
Independent products, research, infrastructure, and long-horizon experiments—shown by stage, role, and operating thesis.
VENTURETYPESTAGEROLESINCE
ANNUAL LETTER / 2026
Build patiently.
Operate directly.
VaughtCo is an owner-operated collection of independent products, software ventures, and long-horizon experiments by Jeremy Vaught.
- ACTIVE INTERESTS
- 06
- OPERATING HORIZON
- LONG
- EXTERNAL CAPITAL
- NONE
A portfolio is a practice,
not a collection.
The point is not to accumulate projects. It is to get better at recognizing work worth returning to.
VaughtCo holds products with different rhythms: some serve customers every day, some publish ideas, and some exist to ask a useful question. They share a preference for direct ownership, durable systems, and small teams that understand the whole.
We choose control over scale when control preserves quality. We choose patience when a longer horizon creates better decisions. And we close experiments when the lesson is more valuable than the artifact.
CAPITAL ALLOCATION / FOUR RULES
What earns another year.
- 01Useful to someone specific
- 02Understandable by its operators
- 03Better with patient ownership
- 04Worth the attention it requires
ORIGINAL V SEAL / RETAINEDThe mark stays.
The mark stays.
The frame matures.
The original coral V remains as the portfolio’s legacy seal. The venture index uses a quieter wordmark so the operating record—not the ornament—leads.