Executive coaching network Vistage sold for $1.8B with nearly $500M revenue
Sam Parr · Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) · Oct 17, 2023 · at 52:06
Sam Parr discusses the business model behind paid executive communities like Hampton and compares them to legacy peer networks like Vistage.
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“So I talked about Vistage. A lot of people didn't know what Vistage is. It's like similar to what Hampton does. So similar to what YPO does, but the target market is CEOs and business owners of like plumbing companies in the middle of America. Doesn't sound that huge. But it has since sold for about 1.8 billion dollars. I think about eight or 10 months ago. It was doing, now it's doing close to five hundred million dollars a year in sales. Very profitable.”
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