For accredited & institutional investors only.
Join us Thursday, Jan 29 at 3pm EST for a 60-minute Buy Box Live Q&A with Stonethrow—Dallas’s first families-only country club.
Join Thesis Driven and the founders of Roster Family Clubs for a live conversation unpacking how Stonethrow is rethinking private clubs from the ground up—combining hospitality, childcare, food & beverage, and community into a scalable OpCo/PropCo platform designed for families.
Note: if you register but cannot attend, we will send you a recap & recording via email. More details below.
Description
In cities like Dallas, nearly every private club is full—yet 95%+ of families are priced out or underserved by what exists. Country clubs were designed for a different era: long waitlists, high initiation fees, limited programming for kids, and amenities optimized for adults first.
Stonethrow flips that model.
Developed by the team behind Common Desk, Stonethrow is a families-only private club coming to East Dallas—designed around how parents and kids actually want to spend time together: resort-style pools, elevated food and beverage, high-quality childcare, indoor and outdoor play, and adults-only spaces—all within a secure, thoughtfully programmed environment.
In this 60-minute live session, Brad & Paul of Thesis Driven will sit down with Nick Clark and Dawson Williams, co-founders of Roster Family Clubs, to explore the opportunity behind Stonethrow and the broader vision for building a new category of urban, family-focused private clubs.
We’ll dig into how Roster is approaching placemaking, operations, and real estate through a deliberate OpCo/PropCo strategy—and why they believe private clubs for families represent one of the most compelling, underbuilt lifestyle asset classes in major U.S. cities.
In this session, we’ll cover:
Why traditional country clubs miss the mark for urban families—and why demand is surging anyway
The gap between expensive legacy clubs and what modern families actually want
What makes Stonethrow different—from programming and childcare to F&B and design
Stonethrow's traction and paper profits 1.5 years before opening
How Roster thinks about OpCo vs. PropCo, recurring membership revenue, and scalable club economics
Lessons from building and exiting Common Desk—and how that experience shaped Roster
Speakers Include:
The Team
Nick Clark, Co-Founder, Roster Family Clubs
Dawson Williams, Co-Founder, Roster Family Clubs
The “Institutional Investors”
Paul Stanton, Thesis Driven
Brad Hargreaves, Thesis Driven
See how Stonethrow is transforming the private club model