How This Founder is Bringing Automation to Sales Teams – Inc.

Welcome toInc.'sFounders Projectpodcastwith Alexa Von Tobel, where we bring you tales of guts,inspiration, and drive that define the entrepreneurs building the future. Each week, we dig into a founder's professional playbook and uncover what makes them tick. On this week's episode:

In 2015, Amit Bendov was not looking to start a company. But he was looking for a way for his sales team to more automatically capture CRM data. So heand his co-founder ended up launching Gong to help sales teams have better conversations with customers and win more deals. Gong quickly found product-market fit, which only accelerated when Covid pushed most sales calls to a digital format. Gong has since grown to over 2,000 customers with a valuation north of $7 billion. Bendov shares why he charged early customers a high price to stay inbeta, why he believes autonomous applications are the way of the future, and why you learn more from successes than failures.

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