why aren't all 14 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sisense's system gets faster as more people use it concurrently
“So the outcome is actually that the more you use the system, the faster it gets. So this is a system that gets faster with more users, not slower.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gong's $200M Series D will fund the company past an eventual IPO
“This should get us like well beyond an IPO, like that, that's the path for Gong, like within like a few years.”
Assertion Supported
Sisense analyzed 10 terabytes in 10 seconds on a sub-$10k server
“We demonstrated Strata in Santa Clara last year, 10 terabytes, ok, analyzing 10 seconds on a sub-ten-thousand dollar standard Dell server.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bendov: CRM tracking of lost sales deals fails due to manual rep inputs
“The only way for companies to know how much they're losing Is if the reps select that drop down least like who we lost a deal to right in which often they don't do.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
11 of Gong's first 12 pilot customers converted to paid contracts
“So we reached out to everybody and said hey guys, sorry payday's over it's time to pay, and it was like in the tens of thousands, and everybody kind of like, Bob, but 11 out of the 12 bots. And a 12 bot like a year later for a lot more.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gong relies entirely on unsupervised AI that requires zero user training
“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.”
Assertion Partly supported
Sisense demonstrated analyzing 1TB of data on a $750 laptop
“When we launched in Strata in New York last year, we demonstrated a terabyte of data analyzed on a 750 dollar laptop with eight gigs of RAM.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sisense handles 3,000 concurrent users on a single server
“Most in-memory product requires additional five to 10% for additional concurrent user because they keep copies of the data, ok? Slices doesn't do none of that. It stays pretty flat. You could do 3000 users on a single server without adding additional memory, o…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
eBay analyzes 1.5 billion records in 3 seconds using Sisense
“EBay is using it to analyze what people are buying and selling online. Trends in pricing, new versus old, Samsung versus iPhone, ok? Billion and a half record set, complex dashboards open in three seconds.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gong achieved an exceptionally high Net Promoter Score of 80
“Our Net Promoter Score, as of today, is 80, eight zero.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bendov: Gong has closed seven-figure enterprise accounts
“But now definitely we have accounts in like seven figures.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sisense's customer base tripled in 2013
“The customer base tripled in 2013.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Target uses Sisense across 1,800 stores to identify shrinkage
“Target is using it to analyze data from 1800 stores to identify what they call Shrinkage or shoplifting, ok?”
Assertion Partly supported
Bendov: ClickSoftware was acquired by Salesforce for $1.3 billion
“I was one of the founding team of the company called Click Software that was personally acquired by Salesforce for 1.3 billion.”