Bendov: Most Gong customers have between 10 and hundreds of salespeople
Amit Bendov · 1126 How Gong Hit $1m+ in ARR in 1st Year · Aug 24, 2018 · at 3:30
Gong co-founder and CEO Amit Bendov describes the typical customer profile and organization size using the conversation intelligence software.
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“Most of our customers are sales organizations in, in companies with anywhere from 10 to hundreds of salespeople and they use Gong to understand what's going on in the conversation.”
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