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About · Marcus Chen

I've actually built the thing you're building.

Former SaaS VP of Sales turned founder coach. Not a guru with a course to sell — one person who has sat in the numbers and made them move.

The story

From the sales floor to your corner

I spent eight years at two SaaS companies, most of it carrying a quota. By 30 I was VP of Sales, and I took one of those companies from $2M to $18M ARR — building the playbooks, hiring the team, and learning what actually drives revenue when the pressure is real.

Then I burned out. Hard. Somewhere in the recovery I started taking calls with founder friends who were stuck, and I noticed something: I was better at helping them figure this out than I'd ever been at doing it myself. The patterns were the same every time, and most of them were fixable in weeks, not years.

So I left. Six years and 200+ founders later, Clarity Growth Co. is the whole job now — not a side project. I'm one person who has actually built the thing you're trying to build, sitting in your numbers with you until the growth is real.

8 YRS IN SAAS · $2M → $18M ARR · VP BY 30

Marcus at work in his Austin studio

By the numbers

Six years of coaching, built on eight years of actually carrying the quota.

200+
Founders coached
$47M
In collective client revenue
$18M
ARR scaled as VP of Sales
8 yrs
In SaaS sales before coaching

How I work

What I stand for

No fluff

No 47-slide frameworks, no jargon, no homework that sits in a drawer. Every session ends with two or three things to do this week — and a clear reason they matter.

Founder-first

Your goals set the agenda, not my methodology. I adapt to your business, your stage, and your bandwidth, because the plan only works if you'll actually run it.

Results or nothing

I measure my work by your numbers, not my hours. If we're not moving revenue, we change the plan. Most clients stay because it works — not because they're locked in.

Trail running in the Texas Hill Country at dawn

Off the clock

When I'm not on a coaching call

You'll usually find me trail running somewhere in the Hill Country before sunrise, or making questionable BBQ decisions with a smoker that's smarter than I am. I work with a small number of founders at a time on purpose — so the people I do take on get a coach who's rested, present, and genuinely in their corner.

AUSTIN, TX · SMALL ROSTER ON PURPOSE

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Think we'd work well together?

Book a free 30-minute call and let's find out. No pitch — just a straight conversation about your growth.