🔫 How to Fire Yourself from Sales
You built the pipeline. You know the pitch. You close the big deals.
And that's exactly the problem.
Every founder hits the moment when they realize: I am the bottleneck. The business can't scale because the sales motion lives in your head — and no one else can replicate it.
This evening is about fixing that. Not with more headcount. With discipline, systems, and a framework for transferring what only you know into something your team can actually run.
🎙️ Featured Speakers:
🎤 Sam Goodner — Serial Entrepreneur · Angel Investor · Author · Business Coach
🏗️ Founded Catapult Systems — grew to 450+ employees and 10 offices before a successful acquisition
🦄 Investor & CSO at FlashParking — scaled from 12 to 800+ employees across 6 countries, reaching $1B+ valuation
📘 Author of Like Clockwork — a framework for running your business with precision and predictability
🎯 Currently coaching CEOs of $10M–$250M companies through FreeScale Coaching
🎤 Yagub Rahimov — Founder & CEO · AI Security · Enterprise & Defense
🤖 Founder & CEO of Polygraf AI — locally deployed AI security for enterprise, defense and national intelligence
🏆 Best in Show at SXSW 2025 · Top 10 Cybersecurity Startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
🌍 Previously co-founded 7marketz Inc. — multinational media group operating across 18 countries, successfully exited
🎤 Global speaker on responsible AI, privacy-first systems and enterprise risk management
Two founders. Three exits. Two completely different paths — and one honest conversation about what it actually takes to fire yourself from sales.
🔬 What We'll Cover:
✅ The Founder Ceiling — Why the instincts that built your first million will stall your growth
✅ Transferring the Magic — How to turn founder intuition into a repeatable, trainable sales process
✅ Systems Before Headcount — Why hiring more salespeople before fixing your system just accelerates chaos
✅ The $10M → $100M Shift — What has to structurally change in your GTM motion as you grow
🎤 Moderator: Valentyn Yaromenko CEO of White Sales & Big Sister AI — operating 100% remotely for 8+ years and building AI-powered sales performance tools.
📋 Agenda:
6:00 – 6:40 PM — Doors open. Networking, drinks & snacks
6:40 – 7:50 PM — From Founder to Force — Conversation with speakers
7:50 – 8:30 PM — Community networking
🤝 Hosts and Sponsors:
Big Sister AI — the Revenue Governance Layer. We analyze every customer interaction (calls, emails, CRM) to generate an objective 0-100 Sales Score that enforces your playbook and predicts outcomes
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