Hampton - Join the private network for high-growth founders

Hey PH! 👋 Thought this may be interesting so sharing it here! 🙏 Hampton is a private community for high-growth startup founders and CEOs. Hampton provides a peer-based membership network for the high-stakes, high-stress, and often lonely job of leading a startup. Think group therapy but for business and each member is the CEO of a high growth startup. The community was started by Sam Parr, founder of The Hustle (acquired by Hubspot) and co-host of the My First Million podcast, and Joe Speiser, serial entrepreneur and three-time founder. After operating in stealth for 10 months, Hampton already has hundreds of members. - Each member is interviewed and vetted. Less than 8% of applicants are accepted. - Average member has $23m in revenue. - Members must have at least $1m in revenue OR $3m in funding OR sold a company for $5m+ earlier - We’re limiting the group to 700 members A few of their members: - Austin Rief - Founder of newsletter Morning Brew, which does nearly $100m in revenue. - Roee Goldberg – Co-founder of OpenWeb (Valued at $1.5B), a platform for publishers and brands to build audience relationships. Over $250m raised and 300+ employees. - Brett Adcock – Founder of Archer, an urban air mobility company. $1.7B IPO in 2021. Founded Vetter (now called Hired), a talent marketplace, acquired for $110M. - Walker Williams - Co-Founder & CPO of Fourthwall, the best way for creators to open online shops and monetize their brand & audiences. Doing $25M in GMV. Raised $17M from Seven Seven Six (Alexis Ohanian), Lightspeed Venture Partners and Initialized Capital. Founded Teespring and scaled it over $200M. After getting in, members get: - Monthly Core Groups A core group of 8 founders with an experienced executive facilitator, who will lead discussion where advice and critical feedback is provided to help you accelerate the growth of your business. - Digital Community Get access to a digitally connected, engaged community of founders and professionals who can provide helpful advice, a dedicated digital concierge, and weekly newsletter. - In Person Community Our in-person event strategy is focused around three pillars: our monthly member dinners, annual retreats, and local adventures. - Speaker Series & Education We know how important it is to have access to the best and brightest and to stay on top of your game. So, we host unique workshops and bring in special speakers across a variety of topics. - Exclusive Perks We’ve been securing exclusive discounts with the most popular software companies, tools, and apps. They’re all at your fingertips when you join. We also have a robust preferred vendor database. Adding you as the makers @thesamparr @joe_speiser1

It's cool. But I have a hard time understanding the launch of such product in a place like ProductHunt. It'd be better if they remained stealth as before, because this is by-design a private product for a specific group of people. This is not a product that everybody can use, either for free or for money. The barrier to entry is a process that PH users, or any user at all, have zero control over it: - Each member is interviewed and vetted. Less than 8% of applicants are accepted. - Average member has $23m in revenue. - Members must have at least $1m in revenue OR $3m in funding OR sold a company for $5m+ earlier - We’re limiting the group to 700 members I think, this launch is useless for the public/PH users, but useful for the founders Sam and Joe (for obvious reasons)

What’s not to love? As community led by Sam and Joe only it’s not just a community but a curated networking opportunity at a higher level of growth with founders by founders. Best of luck with this one.

This is great! Congrats guys.

How diverse is membership or is the image in the gallery representative?

one of a kind 🔥

I've exchanged DMs with @thesamparr about this. Love how he and the team quickly validated willingness to pay for something like this. I've participated in a few similar types of groups and know how valuable it can be to have a trusted, private group of peers. But proper curation and matching is critical (like any community-driven product). How are you select people, @thesamparr, @alexwestco, @joe_speiser1?

Congrats on the PH launch! Been a member for 10 months and am loving it so far.

I think this would be more broadly useful if there was an entry point for CEOs of company’s that have potential to reach certain growth targets, rather than CEOs of companies that are already there. Kind of like an interview process resembling Dragons Den to find the diamonds in the rough.

Something about this is giving me more of soho house + equinox vs a group therapy session lol. Trying to understand how a founder is okay with paying thousands dollars per month lol.

I wish there were a Fly on the Wall tier of membership.