Barrie Drewitt-Barlow bought his eighth-tier club in February and faces a trip to a League One team.
The owner of non-league Maldon & Tiptree says he is loving his first FA Cup journey despite admitting he does not know a lot about football.
The Jammers - the lowest ranked team left in the competition - have won six qualifying ties to reach the first round proper, and will travel to Port Vale from League One over the first weekend of next month.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow had been hoping for a home tie to give them the best chance of emulating the club's run to the second round in 2019-20, but they must instead travel to Vale Park to face a team five tiers above them in the football pyramid.
"We watched it [the draw] in the clubhouse with a load of fans, our first team players, manager and coaches and it was electric. There were four balls left by the time they got to us so we had to listen to everybody else get pulled out and now we are travelling to Stoke-on-Trent," he told BBC Essex.
"We've got a team of winners here; we're unbeaten in the league and we're going for it. We might be the underdogs... but we're the hungriest.We really want this and we're going to go there with the mentality that we're going to win it.
"Come what may, our boys are going to give a good show."
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Drewitt-Barlow took over the Essex side with his partner Scott in February.
The money involved in the deal was not disclosed, although he has previously said he tabled a "multi-million pound" offer.
"Since we took over, my aim has been to raise the profile of the club and to get us as high up into the league as possible," he said prior to the draw.
Now, Maldon and Tiptree - who are top of Isthmian League North Division - are hoping the tie against Port Vale will be chosen for TV coverage, which would add a further financial incentive for a game which will see the winners earn £45,000 and the losers £15,000, as well as half the gate receipts.
"Every club wants that revenue, it's like the gold pot at the end of the rainbow — the FA Cup — for small clubs," he said.
"The TV on top of this gives the club an additional boost of around £100,000 so we're keeping our fingers crossed that when they announce this week who's going to be televised, we're one of those that gets the golden handshake."
More than 1,500 fans descended on the club's Parkside ground for Saturday's 1-0 win over Flackwell Heath in the final qualifying round.
"We won that game with 10 men. The guys are amazing but for us, it's the whole community feel. We're in a good place right now, I'm still certain we're going to win the league or be in the play-offs, one of the two, I think we're doing a good job," Drewitt-Barlow said.
Their squad includes experienced former English Football League forwards Freddie Sears and Macaulay Bonne.
"It's seven and a half months now since we took over. The attendance figures prior to takeover were between 70 and 120 people at each home game, and our numbers are going up week on week," said the owner.
"Our away support, travelling with us, we're getting hundreds of people so the club is going through a massive change."
'Good trajectory'
Drewitt-Barlow added: "I know nothing about football, I'm not going to say we're going to be in the Premiership in the next five years because realistically we're not; I don't know enough about football to get us there.
"But I've employed the right people in the right positions to pull a good team together and get us to where we are right now."
Port Vale once reached the FA Cup semi-finals back in the 1950s, but lost in the first round in two of the last three seasons.
"We've got a brilliant manager in Kevin Horlock, ex-West Ham and Manchester City, so we're on a good trajectory to at least get to that next stage of this FA Cup. Although they are the giants and we are a little team, I think we've got a good chance," Drewitt-Barlow said.
He has denied suggestions Maldon & Tiptree has become a "graveyard" for former Colchester United players
"These guys had offers on the table already when we went to them and we had to do a lot of work, a lot of late nights, to convince them to come to Maldon and Tiptree."
The self-made millionaire runs the Chelmsford-based real estate firm Drewitt-Barlow Organisation.
He and his ex-husband Tony were known as Britain's first gay dads, fathering a twin boy and girl through surrogacy.
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