Move to a CRO seat at a series-D-to-pre-IPO company with a real equity package within the next 18 months — the VP-of-sales rung caps out at the current comp band, and the CRO title at a hot company is the single jump that lifts both OVR and market_value by a tier.

Specialise the generalist sales profile into one enterprise vertical (regulated finance, healthcare AI, defence) and become the go-to leader for that vertical — a named-category CRO commands 5-10× the transfer fee of a generic SaaS VP-sales.

Build a public artifact — a sales-leadership podcast, a quarterly enterprise-pipeline-benchmarks report, or a recurring industry talk — to convert the influential-but-private network into a thought-leader brand; visibility moves the talent-pool perception from 'thousands' toward 'hundreds'.