Built & scaled 3 startups to $70m+/yr in ad-tech, ecomm & digital media. Now Co-Founder, CEO @HamptonFounders

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fyi, this call lasted 3 minutes and cost .71 cents.
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just had Hark call a hotel and switch the name on the reservation for me. listening to the recording, it's damn scary how good it is. no more half-duplex sounding.
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tbc, i had to setup outbound calling, I asked hark to connect to call4me and it did autonomously. i imagine all these ai bots will have dialing bundled natively in the next 3-6 months.
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Hark > Grokbot > Muse > Instinct
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inbox 0 has eluded me for years, I always came close but never quite got there. Muse, Grokbot helped a bunch, but I spent more time writing rules for them then just managing the emails myself. Hark is going a lil further, and its a beautiful sight for me. @adcock_brett what u got cooking next?
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a hampton member shared this with me yesterday and I cant stop thinking about it. so jarring. "The scenes of our life are like pictures in rough mosaic, which have no effect at close quarters, but must be looked at from a distance in order to discern their beauty. So that to obtain something we have desired is to find out that it is worthless; we are always living in expectation of better things, while, at the same time, we often repent and long for things that belong to the past. We accept the present as something that is only temporary, and regard it only as a means to accomplish our aim. So that most people will find if they look back when their life is at an end, that they have lived their lifelong ad interim, and they will be surprised to find that something they allowed to pass by unnoticed and unenjoyed was just their life, that is to say, it was the very thing in the expectation of which they lived. And so it may be said of man in general that, befooled by hope, he dances into the arms of death." -Schopenhauer
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FP&A work for Hampton has always been too complicated for ai. Claude, Muse, GPT, Grokbot, even Viktor (all using frontier). They all spend tons of tokens and produce unreliable results. Ive been testing Hark for personal, and just recently connected it to Viktor to pull Hampton data too. Ran the same heavy modeling through it and hot damn, hark nailed it. WAY faster, less errors, and barely any token consumption somehow. So now I have Hark and Viktor working hand in hand (via MCP) and it's pretty magical. kick ass @adcock_brett
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We're hiring a writer to start trouble in Hampton's Slack full of 1k+ founders/ceos. Then turn the best threads into two weekly newsletters. Real writer, real personality. Not a community manager. NYC hybrid. $80-110K + bonus. joinhampton.com/careers/news…
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Joe Speiser ⚡️ retweeted
Founders and CEOs: how do you decide what to pay yourself? The answer is rarely straightforward, because there’s more than one lever: - base salary - distributions - credit card points - business expenses - more (many CEOs get creative here) We surveyed 250+ Hampton members and asked exactly how they handle each one. Check it out. This is just one insight from our 2026 Salary & Compensation Report. You can view the full report for free. Link below.
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Joe Speiser ⚡️ retweeted
The # 1 most important element of a business: picking the right market. @JacobCorley (the guy in the red circle) did exactly that. He started Corley Energy, which builds independent, off-grid power plants for AI data centers. He knew close to nothing about data centers at first, and learned everything on his own. Now, he's aiming to hit $10B with fewer than 5 customers. He showed us the numbers: - 2,300+ gigawatts of new power projects are stuck in line, waiting to connect to the grid. - $650 billion will be spent on A.I. infrastructure in 2026 alone. - Each customer Jake signs is a multi-billion-dollar contract. Which is yet another reminder: market > everything else. Jake's a member at Hampton, our private network for founders doing $3M+ in revenue. If you want to be in a room with people like him, click the link below.
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I noticed Muse is not enforcing their usage limits at all. I keep hitting 100% every week, but it allows me to continue usage normally. No capping.
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ok been hammering it hard with tasks all day, it finally hit capacity. I'm thinking they give a good 50% over the free limit before capping you out.
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muse is the first ai my wife let me put on her phone. her #1 goal, help remove 163,490 promotional emails sitting in her gmail. Shes tried for years by hand, but gmail always freezes when selecting that many. Muse took 3 days, hit multiple gmail limits, but worked around them, and just cleared it all out. shes impressed (for someone who hates ai).
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Yea it kept hitting those. But then used its local computer to mimic a human to get through them
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With all the ai bots getting outbound dialing abilities, call volume will climb forcing every business to employ their own ai receiving bots. Then we’ll just have bots talking to bots. Cant tell if thats a good thing or not.
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Joe Speiser ⚡️ retweeted
How much do CEOs pay themselves? We surveyed our members at Hampton (1,000+ founders doing on average ~$25m a year) and put their answers into a report. The answer: $450,000. That's what the median founder earns. Next, we broke down their salaries across industries. Check it out: joinhampton.com/hampton-sala…
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been pitting personal ai assistants against eachother. Instinct vs grokbot vs muse so far, as much as I hate meta, muse is my clear winner. 10x faster than Instinct and smarter than grok. It also is able to get into delta, and amex where those 2 get bot-blocked.
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50% of founders pay themselves less salary than their best paid employee (want to guess who that is?) read the full salary/comp round up here in comments
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Called an idiot in high school. Now at 8 figures in ARR. Turns out the chip on the shoulder was a solid business plan. Proud of you @joshsuggss
StreetTalk has reached 8 figures in ARR and $100M in attributable revenue. Today we're Introducing AGC: Authentic Generated Content™. AGC is the world's first ad that nobody knows is an ad. Advertising has become fake: -Celebrity endorsements became Influencer Marketing. -Influencer marketing became "UGC" -and now we have AI UGC... People want to buy from other people. 71% of consumers regret influencer driven purchases.  We built AGC to be completely different.  How it works: 1. We record hours of footage of real people using your product.  2. We clip these reactions into creative using our team of real human editors. The key difference: instead of strategizing content, we shoot hours of real authentic reactions then we clips these reactions rather than the other way around. It's @garyvee method of documenting and not creating. So far it's working: on avg AGC leads to a 4x ROAS on new customer revenue.  Everything in my life has lead to this moment. In highschool I was called “an idiot ”. I was in special ed. I dropped out of college with a 2.1 GPA with full conviction Street Interviews were the future of advertising.  I had a massive chip on my shoulder. I still do. I channel that energy into building StreetTalk. This is my life’s work. If you’re a client, friend or supporter, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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