Substance behind the style

Q&A with TRAVIS MATHEW Golf Apparel’s angel investor John Kruger

This interview appeared in excerpted form in the 2015 Links Players Magazine.

What would you put in your back-of-the book bio?
Married 27 years, three kids, adultish—they’re not really adults until they’re 50. Became a Christian in the late 1990s. So I came to it late in life, I my thirties. I had time to really, I wouldn’t say challenge it, but get convicted through curious investigation, not just toeing the line, but really wondering if this was right. Who’s right, and what’s right? So kind of the Lee Strobel method. I went through that and became convicted that this makes sense. Faith is a willful decision based on reasonable data. That’s what I found from it.

I went right from high school to working for my dad, taking over his company in 1985 when he died. I’ve been self-employed my whole life, really, other than the few years working for him. We did metal fabrications, so electronic equipment, computer-related, telephone, gaming, and medical equipment, pretty large scale. I ran that from 1985 to 2008, sold it, real estate investments now, Travis Mathew, kind of founded that with two other guys being an investor. I actually work full-time as a volunteer working to bring school choice to California, and fi scal reform, including religious school choice. That’s my full-time passion right now is to try to change that game in the state. Kind of taking a little break from TM. I never really worked there full-time, but I’m really not really doing much of anything other than overseeing the CEO and creative guy.

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