Kahlow: Model correctly predicted LDS Church's $5M Cisco purchase
Amanda Kahlow · She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amand... · PMF Show · Apr 6, 2026 · at 4:21
Amanda Kahlow, founder of 6sense, shares an early success story of predicting account expansion for enterprise client Cisco.
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“I'll never forget one of the first predictions was the Church of Latter-day Saints. And we predicted that they would buy five million dollars worth of networking and security from Cisco. And then we were right. And it was like, oh shit. Wow. Like they went from like a 100,000 dollar account to a five million dollar account. And I got it right on the dollar amount, like wildly close.”
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