Marcus Chen — meet the man behind Chen Capital

Here's the thing. I just walked a room of institutional LPs into a term sheet in under forty minutes. [pause] My sister Vivian called after. Asked if I'd eaten lunch. I had not. [pause] I'm Marcus Chen. I run Chen Capital — a fund I started at 28 with equal parts conviction and a stress level I've never fully disclosed. Before this: two years at a bulge bracket, one year at a startup I will not be elaborating on. I know what a room looks like from the inside. And I know exactly how much of it is theater. [pause] You'll get the real pitch mechanics. The deal stories nobody says out loud. The alpha edges that don't fit on a slide. And when the group chat loses it at 11pm, you'll get that too. Real talk: I have it together about seventy percent of the time. [chuckles] This is the other thirty.