SaaS Dads Season 3 Episode 2: From Failed Agency to HighLevel’s Rocket Ship with Chase Buckner

Gary introduces Chase as one of HighLevel’s most senior people, and for good reason, Chase has been with HighLevel for almost seven years and has held multiple roles across customer success, content and education, sales and marketing, and product marketing. In this episode, Gary and Chase go back through that journey. Chase talks about starting out as a high school English teacher, moving into digital marketing, building an agency that ultimately failed, finding the right business partner, growing a seven-figure agency, and then discovering HighLevel at a time when the company was still in its early days. He also shares the family side of that journey. Chase is a dad of three boys, and he talks about what he learned from becoming a father, how his experience as a teacher influenced the way he parents, and how family life developed alongside the growth of his career. Gary and Chase discuss: 👉 Being a dad of three boys 👉 What Chase learned from teaching and how it carried into parenting 👉 His first agency failing around the time his first son was born 👉 Finding the right business partner 👉 The relationship between salespeople and operators 👉 Growing a seven-figure agency 👉 Why operators need to recognise when sales is not their strength 👉 The event that eventually led Chase to discover HighLevel 👉 Joining HighLevel during its early days 👉 The different leadership roles Chase has held inside HighLevel 👉 Watching HighLevel grow from a small startup to more than 2,000 employees 👉 The “skateboard” approach to product development 👉 Why HighLevel focuses on getting products into the hands of users quickly and learning from feedback 👉 Leadership, humility and dealing with criticism 👉 How AI is changing HighLevel 👉 Ask AI, managed agents and where Chase sees the next era of HighLevel developing 👉 Why AI is moving too quickly to predict too far ahead 👉 What Chase says people can expect to hear more about at Level Up   Chase also explains how being around the right people, attending events and meeting other agency owners played a major role in the path that eventually brought him into HighLevel. This is a conversation with someone who has seen HighLevel from its early startup days through to where it is now, while also building a family and navigating multiple stages of business along the way.   🎙️ Featuring Gary Capps and Chase Buckner   👉 This is where it starts. Join our community: 🔗 Facebook Group: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim⁠ 🔗 myCRMSIM Community: ⁠https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups⁠ Explore more: Turn contacts into conversations with myCRMSIM. 👉 ⁠https://mycrmsim.com/⁠ Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel: 👉 ⁠https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level⁠