Bendov: Gong started with voice because no competitor was analyzing it well
Amit Bendov · Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Nov 1, 2020 · at 16:06
Amit Bendov, Founder and CEO of Gong, explains why Gong initially prioritized voice data over emails and written messaging.
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“Ultimately our vision is to get to like anything that communicates with the customers could be like contracts, proposals anything, but we started with the voice because it is a very rich data source that was still not done by anyone in a very good way.”
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