DiscoverWMYT - What makes YOU Tick? Tech Leaders Career StoriesE.97 – Escape the Founder Sales Trap: How to Build a High Ownership Sales Team w/ Angel Evenson
E.97 – Escape the Founder Sales Trap: How to Build a High Ownership Sales Team w/ Angel Evenson

E.97 – Escape the Founder Sales Trap: How to Build a High Ownership Sales Team w/ Angel Evenson

Update: 2025-08-07
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Startup Masterclass - How Founders Step Out of Sales AND Grow Revenue (Without It Falling Apart) w/ Angel Evenson - Making Revenue Tick on WMYT


Founders: Do you see enough people openly talking about one of the biggest choke points in startup growth... getting out of founder-led sales without losing control?


Angel Evenson shares how you can build repeatable sales motion, empower teams to own revenue, and fix broken onboarding and marketing alignment before you scale headcount.


Whether you're pre-seed or post-Series A, this episode gives you a framework for building a sales engine that grows without you in the middle of every deal.


You’ll Learn:

- Why founders get trapped in sales - and how to escape

- What “high ownership” sales teams actually look like

- How to fix onboarding that confuses people

- The real role of sales enablement

- How to align messaging

- Mindset hiring in action

- How to empower!


Who's looking forward to this one?


Angel is the Founder & CCO of AKA Communications, a sales & marketing consultancy helping founders grow revenue without burning out. She’s also a former Challenger consultant, and her frameworks blend enablement, messaging, and leadership alignment to build high-performing teams that scale sustainably. Plus she's a dope author, entrepreneur and great mom who's killing it in business (and on TikTok!) - where does she find the time!??!


Follow Angel on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelevenson/

Get her tools here: https://linktr.ee/angelevenson

Follow Richard on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richwash/

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E.97 – Escape the Founder Sales Trap: How to Build a High Ownership Sales Team w/ Angel Evenson

E.97 – Escape the Founder Sales Trap: How to Build a High Ownership Sales Team w/ Angel Evenson

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