Marlon Rodrigues
Fractional GTM and Growth leader for startups making their first million ARR
I had a really valuable session with Marlon. He listened, asked the right questions, and helped me gain clarity around things I’d been stuck on. I left feeling more focused and motivated, with practical takeaways I could actually use. I’d absolutely recommend him!
Marlon is refreshingly straightforward. Within minutes, he diagnosed exactly what was wrong with my website and brought me back to the core truth: the site exists to drive sales. He didn’t waste time sugarcoating—he broke it down clearly, kept reinforcing the main goal, and equipped me with concrete strategies to refine and scale. If you value clarity, results, and no-nonsense guidance, Marlon is the expert you need.
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My meeting with Marlon was exactly what I needed — straightforward, structured, and highly insightful. He listened carefully to my introduction, then helped me break down each point and guided me toward the most logical solution. Along the way, I felt both challenged and supported, which gave me clarity and confidence about the next steps. His combination of deep knowledge and sharp attention to detail makes him an exceptional mentor. I left the session with clear directions on how to move forward, and I’m very glad I booked this call.
Bio
“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.” - Peter Drucker I use product usage data, market research, and customer development to derisk our bets, improving the odds of winning whatever challenge is in front of us. It's the art and science of Marketing that has made it an intellectually interesting career for more than 15 years.
Expertise
Advice on funding
The best funding is from customers, so let's see how to make that work. Otherwise, I've interviewed at YC, demo'd at NEXT AI, supported multiple seed raises and am a 4x angel investor (1 exit), so we can look at how to fund the business from all sides of the table.
Content marketing
We humans make sense of the world through stories, so content marketing is about piecing together the relevant facts inside a repeatable narrative that demonstrates your world view to potential collaborators.
Mindset coaching
I believe that our intuition is the greatest overlooked asset in our companies. It's easy to bypass it, but we're grown accustomed to trusting AI models without fully understanding their inner working too. We're intelligence attempting to express too. So what is your intuition trying to tell you?
User research
Garbage in, gargabe out. We want to triangulate a good target market so that we can sequence our growth through adjacent segmentation and tap into existing, current market insights to derisk our approach to market.
Toolkit
Miro
7 years of experienceI'm a visual thinker, and in the absence of a whiteboard, we've got Miro! What's better, we can visualize together and have a lingering repo of our explored ideas.