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Schenker: Sales enablement software tools exploded from 400 in 2014 to thousands

Matt Schenker · How This Founder Plans to use AI to help Remote Sales Team Managers Run Better Teams · Nov 8, 2023 · at 9:52

Mattermore co-founder Matt Schenker describes market fragmentation across modern sales enablement SaaS tooling.

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“And 2014, there were like 400 sales enablement tools. Now we're in the matter of thousands of sales enablement fast tools.”

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