Rafner: Act-On was one of Gong's earliest handful of users
Greg Rafner · $25m Gong Acquisition? New Founder Hits $2m Run Rate in 5 Months · Mar 29, 2022 · at 1:28
Greg Rafner, founder of Abstract, discusses his background as an account executive at Act-On Software using conversational intelligence tools.
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“We started using Gong actually back when they had like a football player on their website, on their homepage. I think where we were one of the first handful of users of Gong like seven years ago.”
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