Built by one person.

Tom Binza, founder

I’ve spent the last decade in customer success and customer experience inside tech companies, with a consulting background before that. Most of that work has been about understanding what users actually want, not what a product team thinks they want. That gap turned out to be the reason Stamp exists.

Personally, I was looking for a way out of mainstream social media. The algorithms, the negativity, the doomscrolling, the lack of ownership over what I’d posted, the lack of transparency about how any of it worked. I started talking to friends and family about it and realised everyone felt the same. It was time for an alternative that gives people what they actually wanted from social, and strips everything else out.

Environmental law, then policy, then products.

My academic background is environmental: I specialised in environmental law at university, then did a master’s in environmental policy and management. I worked as an environmental consultant for several years and then spent time at a food-waste-reduction startup using machine learning in commercial kitchens. I now work in driver safety.

I’ve always wanted my work to mean something beyond a salary, which is also why Stamp commits a third of its profits, after costs, to three UK-registered charities we select and publish our reasons for.

The charities are selected, not partners. They are under no obligation to Stamp and they do not endorse it.

The full record, and why each one

Nobody here has to be talked out of it.

There is no board asking where the ad revenue is, and no investor who needs the numbers to double this year. The commitments on the Pledge are cheap to keep, because there is nobody inside the company whose job is to break them.

It sets the pace honestly, too. Stamp gets built slowly, in the order that makes the product better rather than the order that makes a chart go up. We are hiring as Stamp scales.

A charity, a journalist, or a member with a question.

Reach me directly. Every address below lands on the same desk.

Tom Binza, founder. Stamp Social Ltd, registered in England and Wales.