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Bendov: Selling software cheap prevents learning from customer objections
“A price that isn't cheap because if you sell cheap, you aren't really learning anything. So if there were like objections, we wanted to give like a reasonable price. Price is pretty close to what we would ultimately charge. So if people said no, we'd learn wha…”
Bendov: Squeezing renewal margins does not matter during hypergrowth
“When you grow so quickly, the early customers don't really matter because you're growing like 300 to 400% every year. So like these extra 10% that you're going to get from renewals at existing customers doesn't really move the needle. So you much better off fo…”
Bendov: Gong maintains over 150% net dollar retention
“So our NDR is almost always, like, even these days, moreover, like, a 150%.”
Bendov: Genuine marketing outperforms overanalyzing multi-touch attribution
“I think when people try to overanalyze, you kind of do things that they're real and genuine, over time, they pay a big dividend.”
Bendov: Gong's net dollar retention is over 150%
“So our NDR is almost always, like, even these days, moreover, like, a 150%.”
Bendov: Gong maintains a Net Promoter Score of 72
“Our Net Promoter Score is, is seven to two, right?”
Bendov: Gong's Net Dollar Retention consistently exceeds 150%
“So our NDR is almost always, like, even these days, moreover, like, a 150%.”
Bendov says Gong operates on Series B funds, leaving Series C untouched
“So we haven't even touched, we're still running on a series B money, right? We raised the series B. We did not start touching The Serious Serious C money we raised in December, and we still have a pretty long way to go with a Serious B, right?”
Bendov reveals Gong's three-year customer cohorts expand to 250% initial value
“Those cohorts are around, like, 250 and north, right, percent of what they bought, and they're still, like, most of them are, like, are still with us, right?”
Bendov: Gong never encounters legacy call-tracking tools in sales deals
“We, I'll beg to differ here because I don't even, I don't see these companies ever.”
Bendov: Gong is still running entirely on its Series B capital
“So we haven't even touched, we're still running on a series B money, right? We raised the series B. We did not start touching The Serious Serious C money we raised in December, and we still have a pretty long way to go with a Serious B, right?”
Bendov: Gong's 3-year customer cohorts expand to 250%+
“So our history, I mean, we started selling, like, in the year of about, like, three years of history. Those cohorts are around, like, 250 and north, right? Percent of what they bought, and they're still, like, most of them are, like, are still with us, right?”
Bendov: Content must be easily consumed, immediately applicable, and strictly relevant
“We have like three attributes for content. First, that it's like, it's easy to consume. So not like 13 pages, white papers that nobody wants it to read. Second, it's immediately applicable. It's not some kind of like, you know, bold ideas that you could apply …”
Bendov: Gong CSMs are measured on NPS rather than sales quotas
“The CSMs are measured mostly on NPS. They're not sales people. They want to make sure the customer has the best possible service. They kind of do have like NPS and renewal rate, which is kind of proxy, but it's a very small A portion of their compensation, so …”
Bendov: Gong raised $200M Series D, reaching nearly $340M total funding
“The most recent round is the Series D two hundred million. Dollars led by Code Two, Thrive, Salesforce, and Index. This is the fourth round, so the total to date is like 300, almost three hundred and forty million dollars. The last round was led by Sequoia in …”
Bendov: Gong's Series D valuation reached close to $2.2 billion
“It was close to 2.2 billion dollars.”
Bendov: Sales rep turnover drives Gong's organic lead generation
“So people got sales has like I think about like 20, 15 to 20% annual attrition. But actually that's worked well for us because if I use going at my current company and I'm leaving another odds are we'll get a new lead.”
Gong is still operating entirely on its Series B funding.
“So we haven't even touched, we're still running on a series B money, right? We raised the series B. We did not start touching The Serious Serious C money we raised in December, and we still have a pretty long way to go with a Serious B, right?”
Bendov: Gong will not reach $100M run rate this year
“No, no, no. We're not we're not going to get to a hundred million pieces here, but we're not far from that.”
Bendov: Gong measures CSMs mostly on NPS, not sales quotas
“The CSMs are measured mostly on NPS. They're not sales people. They want to make sure the customer is getting the best possible service. They kind of do have like NPS and renewal rate, which is kind of proxy, but it's a very small A portion of their compensati…”
Bendov: Gong closed a $200M Series D, bringing total funding near $340M
“So the most recent round is the Sirius D two hundred million. Dollars led by Code Two, Thrive, Salesforce, and Index. This is the fourth round, so the total to date is like 300, almost three hundred and forty million dollars.”
Bendov: Gong tripled its valuation from roughly $750M in six months
“It was close to 750, so three x.”
Bendov notes that sales rep attrition drives Gong's word-of-mouth growth
“Sales has like I think about like 20, 15 to 20% annual attrition. But actually that's worked well for us because if I use going at my current company and I'm leaving another odds are we'll get a new lead. So, so that like kind of a grant organic word of mobs i…”
Bendov: High-Performing B2B Content Must Be Easy, Actionable, and Strictly Niche
“We have like three attributes for content. First, that it's like, it's easy to consume. So not like 13 pages, white papers that nobody wants it to read. Second, it's immediately applicable. It's not some kind of like, you know, bold ideas that you could apply …”
Bendov: Gong CSMs Do Not Carry Sales Quotas to Avoid Pressuring Customers
“They're not sales people. They want to make sure the customer is making, like, the best possible service. They kind of do have, like, NPS and renewal rate which kind of proxy, but it's a very small portion of their compensation, so they don't try to pressure t…”
Bendov: Gong generated millions of dollars in ARR in its first year
“We, we're in a millions of dollars of ARR right now within the first year.”
Bendov: Call recording volume does not indicate active product engagement
“So, so call volume doesn't mean, Gong records the call, so it affects someone recording call doesn't mean that they actually use the product, right? That's what we learned early on. So we check engagement in, in a number of ways. So how many logins and how man…”
Bendov: 100% of Gong's original beta companies converted to paying customers
“Actually the 12 company bought a few months ago. So now it's 12 out of 12.”
Bendov: Gong guaranteed early customer pricing forever
“The other things that we did, we said, okay, the price that you're getting today, we're gonna guarantee it forever”
Bendov: Gong accounts expand 50% on average in six months
“On average, our accounts grow 50% within the first six months. There's a lot of expansion. So every dollar turns to a dollar and a half within two quarters from purchase. And then we've seen it like pretty consistently.”
Bendov: Gong operates at -53% net revenue churn
“In terms of sorry, revenue churn, we're at -53. Okay, so our accounts grow quickly. A lot of them like triple, double, because they start with sales, they move to customer service, they add more teams, they move to add other units in a company, so there's a lo…”
Bendov: Gong operates with an estimated 18-month customer acquisition payback period
“So right now it's about, if I'm not mistaken, it's about a year and a half.”
Bendov: Gong raised a $200M Series D for $340M total funding
“The most recent round is the Sirius D two hundred million. Dollars led by Code Two, Drive, Salesforce, and Index. This is the fourth round, so the total to date is like 300, almost three hundred and forty million dollars.”
Bendov: Gong is approaching nearly 1,500 customers
“We're approaching like 1500, maybe a little less and we're probably, it's mostly direct.”
Bendov: Gong has roughly 60,000 active sales reps on its platform
“I think it's something to the tune of 60,000 for tens of thousands for sure.”
Bendov: Gong's gross revenue churn on enterprise accounts is near zero
“With the larger customers, it's like close to zero. I mean, occasionally you get some, but there are no, these are like very stable and it's a little higher on the SMB, like the small businesses.”
Bendov: Gong's upper-tier customer contracts reach seven figures
“And seven figures on the upper tiers and like all the range in between, like, and again, this is like happening pretty fast.”
Bendov: Gong will not reach $100M run rate this year
“No, no, no. We're not we're not going to get to a hundred million. We're not.”