On the last week of March 2023, Sam Parr, fresh off selling The Hustle to HubSpot, opened the doors to a paid membership group called Hampton with a simple pitch: pay between $5,000 and $10,000 a year, get vetted, and we will put you in a room of eight founders who actually understand your P&L [capitaly.vc, 2024] [community.inc, 2024]. Two and a half years later, Hampton says it has crossed 1,000 members and is generating roughly $8 million in annual recurring revenue, all without taking outside capital [joinhampton.com, 2024] [community.inc, 2024].
The bet
Hampton, co-founded by Parr and Joe Speiser, is selling membership in a private network for operators who have crossed a real revenue or funding threshold. Applicants generally need at least $3 million in revenue, $3 million in funding, or a $10 million exit to qualify [inc.com, 2024]. Once in, each member is placed in a core group of eight founders who meet monthly with a trained facilitator [inc.com, 2024]. Around that core sit Slack channels, original research reports on founder compensation and SaaS operations [joinhampton.com, 2024], and an in-person events calendar that the company plans to push into 13 cities in 2025 [joinhampton.com, 2024].
Why it could be big
The peer-network category is older than software. What is interesting about Hampton is that it is attacking the segment those incumbents have historically underserved: high-growth tech and consumer founders in their 30s and 40s who follow Parr's media footprint from My First Million. Distribution, in this category, is the moat.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Members | 1,000 |
| ARR | $8,000,000 |
| Cities planned 2025 | 13 |
| Core group size | 8 founders |
The competitive set
Hampton sits in a crowded but stratified market.
| Network | Typical member | Annual cost (reported) |
|---|---|---|
| YPO | CEOs of larger established companies | Several thousand |
| Tiger 21 | High-net-worth individuals ($20M+) | ~$30,000 |
| Vistage | SMB CEOs and execs | $10,000-$20,000 |
| EO | Founders with $1M+ revenue | Several thousand |
| Chief | Senior women executives | ~$8,000 |
| Hampton | High-growth founders, $3M+ rev or funding | $5,000-$10,000 |
| FoundersCard | Broad founder perks network | ~$595 |
The team and traction
Parr is the public face and the demand-generation engine. Speiser brings the operating background. Beyond the founders, Hampton is incubating a stealth product called Rosedale Insights, surfaced via team member Tommy Magill's profile [LinkedIn, 2026]. Hampton already publishes a Salary and Compensation Report and a State of SaaS Report drawn from member surveys [joinhampton.com, 2024].
What bears say, what bulls answer
The sharpest bear case on a paid network is retention. Membership communities are notoriously hard to renew once the novelty wears off. The bull answer is that the core-group structure is the same architecture YPO and Vistage have used to sustain decades-long member tenures, and that the move to in-person Core Groups in 13 cities in 2025 [joinhampton.com, 2024] is the lock-in mechanism a digital-first community needs to harden retention.
What to watch
Three things over the next twelve months will tell us whether Hampton is a durable business or a well-marketed cohort. First, the 13-city IRL rollout. Second, Rosedale Insights: if Hampton ships a paid research or data product off the back of its member surveys, that is a second revenue line. Third, any signal on renewal rates. At roughly $8 million ARR with no outside capital on the cap table [community.inc, 2024], Hampton has the rare luxury of choosing whether to raise.