Hampton

Who Is Behind the Company

Hampton was founded in 2022 by Sam Parr, the entrepreneur behind The Hustle (acquired by HubSpot), and Joe Speiser, co-founder of LittleThings. The company launched publicly on March 28, 2023 [community.inc, 2024].

Inside the Company

Hampton is a paid, vetted peer network for founders and CEOs running businesses with meaningful revenue, funding, or exit history. The company is headquartered in New York and is described in third-party databases as a small team in the 1 to 10 employee bracket as of profile capture [Crunchbase, 2024]. The founding premise is that founders running businesses past the early-stage threshold often lack a confidential peer group to discuss compensation, hiring, fundraising, and personal wealth questions.

Sam Parr's prior company, The Hustle, was acquired by HubSpot in 2021, giving him both an audience of operators and a media playbook that maps directly onto Hampton's content strategy. Joe Speiser previously co-founded LittleThings, a digital media business. The two have built Hampton with content-as-distribution muscle: original research reports on founder compensation, the State of SaaS, and wealth allocation are gated behind email signup and consistently feed the membership funnel [joinhampton.com, 2024].

Key milestones include: incorporation in 2022; public launch in March 2023 [TechCrunch, 2023]; publication of multiple original research reports across 2023 and 2024 including the 2024 Salary and Compensation Report [Scribd, 2024]; reported milestone of 1,000+ members during 2024 [joinhampton.com, 2024]; announced expansion of in-person core groups to 13 cities for 2025 [joinhampton.com, 2024]; and an internal reference on a team member's LinkedIn to a stealth product called Rosedale Insights [LinkedIn, 2026].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by TechCrunch, Crunchbase, and the company website.

Under the Hood

The Hampton product is a vetted membership rather than a software platform. Once admitted, members are placed in a core group of eight founders that meets monthly with a trained facilitator [inc.com, 2024]. Membership also includes a private Slack community, programmed events, and access to gated research [joinhampton.com, 2024]. Pricing is reported at $5,000 to $10,000 per year per member [capitaly.vc, 2024], and admission criteria are set at $3M in revenue, $3M in funding, or a $10M exit [inc.com, 2024].

The content layer is the second pillar. Hampton publishes original research, including the 2024 Salary and Compensation Report and the 2024 State of SaaS Report, drawn from member surveys [joinhampton.com, 2024]. For 2025, the company has publicly committed to two product expansions: in-person core groups across 13 cities, and "Affinity Groups" organized around shared interests [joinhampton.com, 2024]. A separate stealth initiative referenced as Rosedale Insights appears on a team member's LinkedIn profile [LinkedIn, 2026].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed by joinhampton.com and Inc.com; pricing source (capitaly.vc) is a single secondary reference and Rosedale Insights is referenced only on LinkedIn.

Market Research and Opportunity

The market for paid founder and executive peer networks is well-established. Hampton's reported 1,000+ members [joinhampton.com, 2024] represents a small share of an analogous category that has historically supported multiple incumbents at scale simultaneously.

Metric	Value
Hampton members reported	1,000+
Hampton ARR reported	$8,000,000
YPO global members (analogous)	34,000+
Vistage global members (analogous)	45,000+

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed Hampton figures are company-reported; analogous market figures are drawn from incumbents' public materials.

Competition and Substitutes

Hampton sits in a category with well-known incumbents (YPO, EO, Vistage, Tiger 21) and a newer cohort of vertically-targeted networks (Chief, FoundersCard, YEC, C12).

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding
Hampton	Vetted network for high-growth founders and CEOs	Bootstrapped, $8,000,000 ARR reported
YPO	Global executive peer network	Established nonprofit, 34,000+ members
EO	Peer network for entrepreneurs	Established nonprofit, 18,000+ members
Vistage	CEO peer advisory groups	Private (Providence-backed), 45,000+ members
Chief	Private network for senior women executives	Venture-funded (Series B), $100,000,000+ raised
Tiger 21	Peer network for high-net-worth investors	Established private

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Hampton figures from company sources; competitor figures from incumbents' public materials and TechCrunch.

Opportunity

If Hampton continues compounding members and revenue at its current trajectory while staying capital-efficient, the prize is to become the default peer network for the modern operator class. The company has demonstrated a vetting bar that members defend [joinhampton.com, 2024], a content engine that produces proprietary research [joinhampton.com, 2024], and a capital-efficient revenue base reported at roughly $8M ARR [community.inc, 2024].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Scenarios extrapolated from Hampton's reported figures and named comparables; explicitly labelled as scenarios, not forecasts.

Sources

1. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton, the private network for high-growth founders | https://joinhampton.com/
2. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton Wall of Fame, What 1,000+ Founders Say | https://joinhampton.com/wall-of-fame
3. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton Blog | https://joinhampton.com/blog
4. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton is Launching IRL Core Groups in 13 Cities | https://joinhampton.com/blog/hamptons-launching-irl-core-groups-in-13-cities
5. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton's Focus in 2025 | https://joinhampton.com/blog/hampton-2025-product-roadmap
6. [joinhampton.com, 2024] What You Get in Hampton, Core Groups, Events, Slack and More | https://joinhampton.com/explore-membership
7. [joinhampton.com, 2024] Hampton Reports | https://joinhampton.com/reports
8. [joinhampton.com, 2024] SaaS Report from Hampton | https://joinhampton.com/saas-report
9. [TechCrunch, 2023] Hampton is tech's new membership community for chief executive officers | https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/29/hampton-is-techs-new-membership-community-for-chief-executive-officers/
10. [Crunchbase, 2024] Hampton, Crunchbase Company Profile and Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hampton-2c86
11. [ZoomInfo, 2024] Hampton VC, Overview, News and Similar Companies | https://www.zoominfo.com/c/hampton-vc-llc/5000049522
12. [LinkedIn, 2024] Hampton on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/myhampton
13. [LinkedIn, 2026] Tommy Magill, Hampton on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommy-magill-96474371/
14. [X (Twitter), 2024] Hampton (@HamptonFounders) on X | https://x.com/HamptonFounders
15. [Scribd, 2024] Hampton Prospective Members, 2024 Salary and Compensation Report | https://www.scribd.com/document/942215452/Hampton-Prospective-Members-2024-Salary-Compensation-Report
16. [community.inc, 2024] Hampton ARR and member milestone coverage | referenced via community.inc
17. [capitaly.vc, 2024] Hampton membership pricing reference | referenced via capitaly.vc
18. [inc.com, 2024] Inc. coverage of Hampton membership criteria and core group structure | referenced via inc.com