SaaS Dads S2/E-06 : His Gym Closed in COVID, Wife Pregnant, $20K Due in 30 Days… Then He Built a SaaS Empire Nobody Knew About
SaaS Scaling Secrets Unlocked · 2026-04-16 · 56 min
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Most people talk about pressure breaking them. Jackson Chen let it build him. COVID hit. His gym shut down overnight. Income gone. A baby on the way, three teenagers in private school in Sydney, a landlord demanding $20,000 in 30 days, and a wife who was pregnant and needed him present while he was quietly drowning. Most guys would've collapsed, or taken a job or both. Jackson did something different. He opened his laptop, figured out HighLevel from scratch, didn't even know what a webhook was and started hustling to replace every dollar the gym had taken with it. That was five years ago. Today? He's running multiple businesses, hundreds of clients, growing 10 new accounts a week, and still doing school drop-offs every morning. And almost nobody in the HighLevel community knows who he is. That's the part that got us.