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Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- ▶ 28:23 Chief Product Officer, Glean One is GANG, where for, for Glean sales team, in any given day, there might be somewhere between 300 to 800 GANG calls being recorded. 6 times in the scene
How Anthropic's Head of Industries Built an AI-Native Sales Org from Scratch
- ▶ 8:16 Eleanor Dorfman Gone for call coaching. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 Eleanor Dorfman Claude will triage and either resolve the ticket based on precedent and policy, or it will escalate the ticket with all of the requisite customer context, all of the history pulled from email, from Salesforce, from Gong,
- ▶ 23:20 Eleanor Dorfman It will extract action items from your email, from your Don calls, from your Salesforce notes. 2 times in the scene
Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- ▶ 26:32 Jason Lemkin You know, the truth is Gong got a B minus. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:45 Jason Lemkin But just like a lot of folks have kind of standardized on Gong, right? 2 times in the scene
The Step-By-Step Playbook for Building AI-Powered GTM Teams with Personio's CRO
- ▶ 12:40 Philippe Lacour We use Gong as one of our platforms. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:35 Philippe Lacour We made a big bet on Gong. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Philippe Lacour We rolled out, uh, Gong Engage. 2 times in the scene
AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:37 Jason Lemkin This is where, you know, so many folks, you know, outreach and sales off struggled and Gong took a lot of this market because Gong built everything. 3 times in the scene
Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster
- ▶ 9:44 Wade Foster It goes and looks at gong transcripts associated with sales calls with that account.
- ▶ 26:02 Wade Foster One of my favorite, like, good examples of this is taking call recordings, like a gong transcript with customers, and then generating case studies based on that.
From PLG to Enterprise to SMB: Insights from Calendly's CEO Tope Awotona
- ▶ 19:34 Jason Lemkin This really hit Gong for a while, but then they powered through it was that vendor consolidation hurt them. 4 times in the scene
AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
- ▶ 25:37 Jason Lemkin We added sales loft and outreach and gone, but sales reps still close the same three to five.
10 Ways Sales is Different in Vertical SaaS with Mangomint's VP of Sales
- ▶ 5:25 Jason Lemkin You have to at 27 customers and you were going into spas as a spa owner yourself and could have a conversation that maybe someone that worked at outreach or gong or sales loft might struggle to have.
HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on How to Hire Great VPs and How M&A Really Works
- ▶ 20:13 Jason Lemkin I've got offers from, from gusto, HubSpot, rippling, deal, gong.
HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and When Incumbents Win
- ▶ 5:25 Jason Lemkin Our revenue team went on to be the CROs of Brex, Rippling, Gong,
How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL’s Head of Sales Michelle Benfer
- ▶ 26:51 Michelle Benfer When I left Bill, this is an area that we really started to measure, but of the managers, we pulled this from Gong data. 2 times in the scene
Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth
The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:18 Jason Lemkin Went on to be CEO of Gong, CEO of Brad, all these.
- ▶ 16:46 Jason Lemkin CROs at Brex, CRO at Ripley now, Gong, also CRO at Gong, CRO at Gong. 3 times in the scene
How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 40:02 Jason Lemkin Gong. 2 times in the scene
Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGrowth Partners
- ▶ 23:35 Guillaume Cabane If you think of Gong, Gong records and understands the entire, like, uh, deal situation, and will recommend to the AE what to say, what not to say, which competitors to bring up, and how to price.
- ▶ 39:31 Guillaume Cabane Yeah, so, uh, Gong is kind of doing that, uh, and, and all the AI recorders.
Fundraising from VCs and Hiring VPs in 2025: AMA with Jason Lemkin SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 2:00 Jason Lemkin I remember the first great product, uh, my end of product, uh, my ultimate full-time VP of product was a guy named Aron Ohlone, who then became a CCO at Gossio and CCO at Gong. 2 times in the scene
Top 10 Go To Market Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 4:36 Jason Lemkin And when people would interview with this company, they would call it the gong of something, the gong of another category. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:29 Jason Lemkin His series A was seven million, right?
- ▶ 32:14 Jason Lemkin And we've talked a lot about, we've had some pure play AI folks here, the sensations and deep L's and folks adding AI and OG AI like Gong.
The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov
- ▶ 0:47 Jason Lemkin Gong raises six mil, six million in series A, a big series A in 2016, to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help sales teams. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Amit Bendov Do you have some AI gone? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Jason Lemkin Mongo, which to me it's, I know it's, to me it's almost like Gong, which is that it's beloved 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 Jason Lemkin Talk a little bit about the journey from expanding from core gong, like, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Amit Bendov Launch Engage, which is, like, a customer engagement solution.
- ▶ 30:32 Jason Lemkin But for engage, as you're rolling this out for your sales teams, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:43 Jason Lemkin And there's also a gray area in the middle.
- ▶ 37:01 Jason Lemkin On the roadmap for Gong for the next six, 1218 months that you're most excited about, what's coming that gets you most excited as CEO? 4 times in the scene
Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know to Scale to $100m with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 38:07 Jason Lemkin And it's on you and give them two weeks to join more team calls, to join meetings, to listen to a, uh, 50 gongs, do every and give them a chance to make sure they believe after two weeks, find some way where they have the job.
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 18:46 Jason Lemkin Like, a lot of great apps, the Gongs, Stelsoft's outreaches, they should be growing a hundred percent this year, I think.
Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? AMA Part 1 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 4:16 Jason Lemkin Sales off gong outreach hit a wall this year, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Jason Lemkin I last sold sales off or gong or Klaviyo. 2 times in the scene
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- ▶ 11:38 Maggie Hott Um, I use it personally for looking at leads, looking at, you know, sales, data, analysis, opportunities, win, loss rates, everything, and it basically just synthesizes anything that would typically take someone a day to parse through in…
- ▶ 20:53 Maggie Hott You can literally feed, as we talked about, transcriptions from Gong directly into there and use prompt engineering to write these beautiful summaries.
- ▶ 25:03 Maggie Hott Um, I have been, uh, the last few years, there's just no tool that's better than Gong. 6 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: The Hangover's Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong's SVP
- ▶ 0:43 Sam Blond Uh, we're, we're close friends and Jameson now SVP of sales at Gong. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:26 unnamed speaker I mean, I'm a gong, so I'm kind of unique in the sense that we have a lot of visibility, right?
- ▶ 15:22 Sam Blond And then if you have any examples, uh, at Gong or otherwise that come to mind of specific things that you have done around being creative, standing out from a demand standpoint, maybe folks can, uh, make it their own. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:24 unnamed speaker At the very beginning of gone, we just want to talk to anybody.
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 7:12 Jason Lemkin Listen to their gong calls.
- ▶ 32:57 Jason Lemkin There's a different problem as you take, uh, uh, an outreach or a gong or these great companies that know how to, that are salespeople selling sales tools and you put them into construction. 2 times in the scene
How to Close More SaaS Deals with Less Budget with Datadog's CMO Alex Rosemblat
- ▶ 22:14 Alex Rosemblat The key stats to look here are meeting rates, and again, cut by different teams, or geos, or products, and if you have the bandwidth, start sampling emails in Salesforce, or if you have gotten a sales listening tool like Gong set up, start… 2 times in the scene
What the Future of SaaS Holds with David Sacks, Founder & General Partner, Craft Ventures
- ▶ 4:01 David Sacks I think that, you know, apps like Gong or Chorus are going to be turbocharged with the ability to analyze all that conversational intelligence that they're recording.
Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
- ▶ 29:58 Spencer Kimball Listening to the chorus or gong calls.
Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 38:08 Joe Thomas They'll go out and they'll talk to each other, say, like, Loom wants to purchase Gong, and like, they'll just talk to each other, and then it'll come back, being like, here's the proposal, right?
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder
- ▶ 15:14 Sam Blond Let's talk about you're now doing this for at least the second time, arguably, um, many times over, but you were in a way almost like a co-founder, but certainly like the very first go to market advisor at Gong.
- ▶ 15:36 Brendon Cassidy I mean, I think Gong's where it started for me, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Sam Blond Um, and what I'm hearing from you is Brendan, you, uh, were an early advisor to Gong. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 Brendon Cassidy And now Gong is what they are, and it's all credit.
- ▶ 31:36 Sam Blond Have you ever tried anything, whether it's with CoSell or Gong or otherwise, there was sort of unconventional, uh, similar to what I just described with that champagne campaign that like, um, and the reason that I ask many listeners and…
Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma's VP of Sales, Scott Pugh
- ▶ 14:31 Scott Pugh I'm also a massive fan of, of revenue intelligence tools, ah, we use Gong at Mixpanel, we use Chorus at Figma, but this enables people to actually go and
How To Adapt Your Sales Strategy To The Current Sales Environment | Modern Health SVP of Sales
- ▶ 5:41 Hannah Wilson And actually we had a, um, a check in with our, uh, CSM at Gong the other day, and we were looking at some of the data. 2 times in the scene
SaaStr CRO Confidential:Hiring a Great VP of Sales Today Sam Blond + Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta
3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions | Samsara CMO
- ▶ 9:55 Sarah Patterson Tools like Gong help you get great insights into what questions your prospects are asking on calls and how your sales teams are responding.
- ▶ 26:20 Sarah Patterson And then on top of that, I mentioned Gong, right?
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Gong VPS Jameson Yung + Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 1:02 Sam Blond And now Jameson is the SVP of sales at Gong, um, a company most recently valued at something like seven and a half billion dollars where Jameson leads, um, the entire customer life cycle for the majority of Gong customers. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:08 Sam Blond And when I think of Gong, the first thing that comes to mind is better than any company I've seen over the last, let's call it eight to 10 years, Gong has really, um, become now a staple in the sales tech stack for, uh, uh, tech companies. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:16 Jameson Yung Early on as well with Gong labs, which I think was helpful to kind of proliferate through LinkedIn.
- ▶ 14:38 Sam Blond One, one thing that, like, uh, despite Dong being one of the most successful businesses of, of this sort of tech generation, um, as, as all of us on this call know all too well, um, nothing is perfect. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Sam Blond Would love to learn how you've approached this new environment at Gong. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:14 Jason Lemkin They're growing to brands because if you may not, you may have a myopic, and I'm curious if you see Gong as relatively stronger than upstart sales startups. 5 times in the scene
How to Manage 100+ SDRs Across 4 Continents | Snowflake VP, Global Sales Development Lars Nilsson
- ▶ 27:50 Lars Nilsson Ah, we've implemented a conversational intelligence tool called Gong.
- ▶ 45:58 Lars Nilsson They have access, and they have paid for ZoomInfo, and Gong, and Outreach, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 41:07 Jason Lemkin Gong, but for QA, and so I, I'm very passionate about it, um, but to really answer your question, why am I more passionate?
Scaling From $10M-$100M ARR: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten
- ▶ 45:45 Pieterjan Bouten Uh, Gong, uh, Clary, um, we're all, ultimately, I mean, we're solving different problems, and many of those companies are very focused on the tech vertical.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 26:08 Jason Lemkin And Gong and Chorus, at a certain, I would argue Gong has now become a much richer product than Chorus, but there was a couple years where they both were these point solutions for listening to your sales teams, and they were both great,… 4 times in the scene
Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo
- ▶ 2:38 Eléonore Crespo I can talk about Gong, for instance.
- ▶ 6:42 Eléonore Crespo When we sign Gong, that is a very, very solid brand for sales teams.
SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO/CRO Dynamic Drives Growth | Marketo’s Former EVP Sales Bill Binch
- ▶ 15:45 Bill Binch Today, that's called gong, right?
5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 14:59 Dave Kellogg We'll talk about numbers as well, but go with your gut, listen to some gong calls, go on some sales meetings with them, and if they're not the right person, remember the old venture capital adage, you can never fire someone too early,…
- ▶ 47:06 Dave Kellogg Gong is a call recording tool, conversational intelligence. 3 times in the scene
16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 23:19 Jason Lemkin Just, like, think about that for a moment, and listen to the gong and chorus calls, and Zooms and others will get to it, but honestly, move on from any sale, until your brand is so big your product sells yourself, move on from reps that… 2 times in the scene
Building a $5.6B company with a Product-led Flywheel with Postman's CEO Abhinav Asthana
- ▶ 13:49 Abhinav Asthana You know, we look at, you know, what the customer said, you know, tools like Gong help a lot, especially in the remote selling world where you can, uh, with the permission of your customers, record that activity and analyze it.
Acquiring 10,000 SMB Customers Solely from Data with Gorgias' CEO Romain Lapeyre
- ▶ 15:42 Romain Lapeyre So that's your, your CRM, your customer success platform, your marketing tools, uh, your gong, your webinars tools.
Proven Leadership Frameworks for a High-Performing Sales Team with Databricks' VP of Sales
- ▶ 9:46 Heather Equibo We use outreach and gong in our tech stack.
A CEO's Guide to Marketing with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 9:09 Dave Kellogg Right, just say, ah, I work with a company called Alation, they sell data catalogs, and say when you listen to the Gong calls, which I recommend that everyone do, the whole e-staff as a group should do it once a week, and you listen to… 3 times in the scene
The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- ▶ 8:21 Mark Roberge There's an economy of scale in terms of more volume, so let's, let's pretend we're selling gone.io. 2 times in the scene
The Sales Playbook for 2022 with Co-Sell CEO Brendon Cassidy and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 0:30 Jason Lemkin Can you help build the sales teams at Gong, HackerRank, a bunch of other leaders?
- ▶ 17:24 Brendon Cassidy So when the CRO for Gong went there, um, you know, uh,
- ▶ 32:39 Brendon Cassidy You know, so for instance, like, you know, at outreach as a customer, Gong's a customer, high spots are customers. 3 times in the scene
Going Upmarket, And How Things Have Changed in a Decade, at Trello, with Founder Michael Pryor
- ▶ 42:02 Jason Lemkin and it's, it's fascinating to watch tools you may not use, like gong and chorus, which, you know, gong just raised at two billion because every single person, now that they can't, they're not in the pit, they listen to the gong and chorus… 2 times in the scene
The Top 10 Questions to Ask Any VP of Sales
- ▶ 7:33 unnamed speaker They're not trying to figure out efficiency, which tools do the most, whose call should I listen to with Gong or chorus?