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Andrusko: AI voice agents can offer real-time live coaching to sales reps

Marc Andrusko · "Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech · Nov 20, 2024 · at 6:41

Marc Andrusko, partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), explains how real-time AI voice agents enhance sales representative performance during calls.

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“Like you can now be getting live coaching from an AI voice agent that is trained on, you know, all of the data that you have seen from prospects and from existing customers. And as you know, your prospect is objecting to something, it kind of inserts the right answer into your ear and you can like say it on the fly.”

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