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About Marcus Chen
At 28, Marcus Chen shut down a $4.2M Series A–backed SaaS startup not because it was failing—but because its unit economics masked a fatal misalignment with real-world buyer behavior. He spent the next 18 months reverse-engineering 37 acquisition targets across fintech and vertical SaaS, mapping how their founders negotiated earn-out clauses, structured data escrows, and weaponized customer churn patterns as leverage in due diligence. That work became the backbone of the 'Margin-First Framework'—a proprietary valuation lens now taught at two top-tier MBA programs and embedded in three PE firm diligence playbooks. He doesn’t teach growth hacking or viral loops; he teaches how to spot when your P&L is lying to you—and what to do before the board meeting where someone else notices first. His arena isn’t a pitch deck or a Slack channel. It’s the quiet, high-stakes moment after the term sheet is signed but before the first post-close audit begins.
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- “How did you reprice a customer LTV when your CAC spiked 63% overnight during the 2022 rate hikes?”
- “What’s the one clause you always rewrite in a SAFE note—and why does it matter more than valuation cap?”
- “Walk me through how you stress-tested your churn model against actual bankruptcy filings, not just cohort decay.”
- “When did you realize your 'product-led growth' funnel was actually a liability in M&A due diligence?”
