What’s it like going from $19,000 in your bank account to $100m in a few days?
Last year Hampton member Patrick Campbell sold his bootstrapped company Profitwell for over $200m. Before that, he was cash poor with just over $10,000 in the bank.
Being the wonderfully neurotic person that he is, Patrick spent the last year studying other people who’ve become extremely wealthy.
He spent over $50,000 hiring researchers to help him create a comprehensive study.
He’s tweeting out previews of his findings and will soon release everything (for free via his newsletter).
Oddly, when we discuss this in the Hampton community 1) he’s not the only one who’s created a big study like this and 2) a dozen other Hampton members said they had the exact emotions that Patrick tweeted about.
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This week’s insider insights include...
Recommendations From Hampton Members
We’ve got an entire channel dedicated to personal finance and investing inside our private Slack group. There are 130+ multimillion-dollar founders in it so far.
Recently, we asked them: What’s one book or resource you love to recommend to friends when they talk about wealth-building?
Top answers were…
Lesser-known favorites include…
Side-Note: We’ve got Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, coming to do a private AMA with Hampton members. If you want to be there, make sure you apply to join Hampton now.
Behind The Scenes At The Venture-Backed 3DLOOK
Walmart.com’s former CEO once said that if you want to build a business that could be acquired for $100m in three years, you should work on fit analytics.
The goal: cut down on the ~40% return rate major retailers face.
Well, Hampton member Vadim Rogovsky is doing that.
Using AI, VR, and two pictures from your phone, he built an accurate body sizing and virtual try-on service that's on track to do $1.5 million ARR.
This week he took us behind the scenes to show…
How To Take Guilt-Free Downtime as a Leader
A lot of founders have a difficult relationship with rest. They feel guilt or anxiety about time away from work. As a result, downtime is rare.
Some call this relaxiety.
Members of our group opened up recently to talk about the things that help them beat it. Some favorite recommendations include:
Finally, make sure you’ve got your voice notes app on standby - the ironic thing about giving yourself time away is that, in that space, many of your best ideas will finally appear.
A Roundup Of Episodes Our Members Love
Hampton members were raving about this episode of the Huberman Lab podcast on performance, learning, and growth mindset.
That kicked off a frenzy of people dropping podcast episodes they've enjoyed lately. Be sure to tune into these...
Here’s What’s Working For Hampton Members Right Now…
More than a dozen agency founders in our private Slack group broke down their top lead-gen sources.
Yes, content and customer referrals were most common. Industry events and cold outreach too. But here are a few unexpected finds:
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-The Hampton Team