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Amit Bendov and the Art of Hearing What Gets Lost
He wanted to play in a rock band. Instead, Amit Bendov co-founded Gong, bringing a recording-studio sensibility to a business problem: what customers say, and what companies actually hear.
Emily He Listens for the Signal in the AI Noise
After more than two decades selling complex software, Gong's chief marketing officer has a plain test for artificial intelligence: does it help a company hear its customers and act on what they say?
Gong Put the Sales Call on Trial - Then Built a $500 Million AI Business from the Evidence
The original product listened to calls that managers could never attend. A decade later, Gong wants its agents to plan, coach, forecast, and act - but the winning lesson is still wonderfully small: capture reality before asking people to summarize it.
Pouyan Salehi Learned Startups Behind a Pizza Counter. Now He Is Teaching Sales Software to Remember.
Before the MBA, Apple and four startups, there was a struggling Domino’s franchise in Minnesota. The lessons from that counter still shape Salehi’s campaign against busywork - and his new bet on giving AI the context it lacks.
Jeff Freund
Jeff Freund is the founder and CEO of Akoonu, a Salesforce-native software company that helps B2B sales teams run pipeline reviews and forecasts. A Stanford-trained engineer who studied environmental fluid mechanics, he previously spent more than a decade running Clickability, a web content management company he led from 1999 until its 2011 acquisition by Limelight Networks. He started Akoonu in 2014 around the idea that sales should be grounded in how buyers actually buy, raising an $8M Series A from Shasta Ventures in 2017 and steering the product toward AI-driven forecasting and revenue tools.