It started with confidence, not sales.
Julius Young III spent years teaching men how to ask for what they want. Then he learned to sell. The Ascent exists because those same men kept asking how he did it.
The order matters.
First came the audience. Fifteen thousand people followed Julius for one reason: he taught men how to stop flinching. How to ask. How to hold a position when someone pushed back.
Then came sales. Since 2018 he has run go-to-market under Velocity Demos as a fractional CMO for software and service businesses. The work is unglamorous and specific: build the pipeline, run the calls, hold the price.
The question that built this company came from the audience, not from a market study. Men kept asking how he got like this. The honest answer was that sales did it. So he built the thing that teaches it and places the people who finish.
Founder track record
This is Julius's record as an operator. It is not placement results. Cohort 01 has not graduated, so The Ascent has not placed anyone yet.
- 2018 Founded Velocity Demos Fractional go-to-market for software and service businesses.
- $1.2M ARR Generated for a corporate aviation brokerage Alongside $7.4M in pipeline. The company was acquired in August 2026.
- 15,000 Followers built teaching men confidence Built before any of this was a company.
Julius Young III, Founder
The reps are selling into pipelines he has personally built.
That is the part a recruiting agency cannot say. An agency recruiter has never carried the number they are hiring for. The person running this training has spent eight years building the exact pipelines these reps will work.
See Cohort 01