Gong relies entirely on unsupervised AI that requires zero user training
Amit Bendov · Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Nov 1, 2020 · at 25:16
Amit Bendov, Founder & CEO of Gong, describes Gong's automated machine learning architecture for enterprise sales teams.
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“That's why the learning is unsupervised. Right. It means that we were not asking people to label or train a system. You just, you turn it on and it's working. So everything that we do has to be like fully automated without human intervention.”
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