Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
I will predict and guarantee, really, that this is going to be a greater than $100 million a year revenue business, which means it's going to be worth something like low-end $300-400 million, high-end $1 billion.

**Sam Parr** (0:27)
All right, we are live. Sorry, I missed last week. Had to do a thing. But today's a big day for me. I'm launching my thing. I'm finally talking about the thing that I've been working on. It's called Hampton.
Join hampton.com.
I'm excited.

**Shaan Puri** (0:42)
This is your Steve Jobs moment, dude.

**Sam Parr** (0:44)
Is it?

**Shaan Puri** (0:45)
Every once in a while, something comes along that changes everything. Triangle hand pose.

**Sam Parr** (0:55)
Yeah, I'm just gonna sort of sit here like that. This is the first time that I've been working on something that I haven't talked about it, like within 24 hours of having the idea, and it's killed me.
It's killed me, and I have hated it. I've hated it. I'm so nervous.

**Shaan Puri** (1:10)
And so why now?

**Sam Parr** (1:12)
So I'll give people background. So my new company that I've been working on, I think I've been working on it since July, but I've had the idea for a long time, and I like even interviewed people in this space on the pod.

**Shaan Puri** (1:24)
So by the way, that's the funniest part of this whole thing.
You invited people out of the podcast, asked them, hey, how do you run your business? How do you grow it? What are the numbers? How much money does it make? How'd you start it? Where'd you hire from? Blah, blah, blah.
And then you just launched a competitor like 90 days later.

**Sam Parr** (1:44)
It's not a competitor. So we had Chief on. It's not a competitor to Chief. We had Tiger 21 on, not a competitor to them.
But yeah, so I wanted to prove, because you remember how I said, I hate the question when people say, how would you start if you could do it over again? Yada, yada, yada. And I would tell them, they go, well, it's easy for you. You have an audience. And so I was like, all right, well, I'll just do it in front of you. And just to prove to myself, this little chip I have on my shoulder, that I can create stuff without an audience. So Hampton is, the URL is joinhampton. I couldn't get hampton.com.
It's like owned by Holiday Inn or whatever the Marriott company or whatever it is.
But it's pretty simple. It's a vetted network for founders and entrepreneurs. So basically if you're a founder, our sweet spot is like, if you're the CEO of a company, our sweet spot is like 10 million a year in revenue, but you need at least a million in revenue, at least 3 million in funding or.

**Shaan Puri** (2:35)
Well, explain what it does before you. These are requirements.

**Sam Parr** (2:40)
I'm going to. So what I'm saying is you need like, it's for a certain size of CEO, but basically you sign up, we vet you and I'll interview and all this stuff. And what you get is basically what you and I had. So before Shaan and I started this pod, before he started this pod, him and I would meet once a month. It would be me, you and like five or six other guys. And we would like, it was basically like group therapy for business.
And we did it for a couple of years. And then we did it informally for a long time. And I've done it. I've done it informally with a bunch of people, but it kind of changed my life. And so we decided my partner Joe and I to create that, but for people who are all over the country. So if you're in Idaho and you have this company that does like 20 million in revenue, you're kind of like a freak. You're like an outsider in your community. And so what we did was we made this thing where you can sign up, get vetted, and we put you in a group of eight to 10 people with an executive coach, we call them facilitators, who guide conversations that you have once a month. And then there's a Hampton wide community that you can talk to other people anytime.
And then we host dinners, so we have dozens of dinners, we have adventures, so a bunch of members are going to a rally car event next week.
And so we do all these things, but basically, it's like, I hate using this, but it's almost like a safe space. So we have people like posting.