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Gong.io Named One of 2019 Top 15 Sales Enablement Vendors by Selling Power

Selling Power is pleased to announce it has released its list of the 2019 Top 15 Sales Enablement Vendors: http://bit.ly/2Ofbe0I. This list was published in the November 2018 issue of Selling Power magazine.

Gong wins the AI Innovation Showcase at VB Summit

The esteemed panel at this year’s VB Summit chose Gong.io as winner of the AI Innovation Showcase, with its claim of being the first conversation intelligence platform to analyze end-to-end customer communications

Gong.io Named A Rising Star On Forbes’ Cloud 100 List

Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2018) – Gong.io, the leading conversation intelligence platform helping sales teams have better sales conversions, has been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in collaboration […]

Gong.io Names Ryan Longfield Chief Revenue Officer

Former LinkedIn Sales Executive to Scale Gong’s Hyper-Growth

[San Francisco, CA, August 1, 2018] Conversation Intelligence leader, Gong.io, announced today that it has named former LinkedIn Sales Executive, Ryan Longfield, Chief Revenue Officer. Longfield will help drive Gong’s rapid growth. Gong.io helps salespeople have better conversations by using AI and machine learning to pinpoint what the top performers are saying and doing differently. […]

Gong.io Extends A1 Funding Round with Investment from Cisco Investments

Gong.io, the market leader in Conversation Intelligence for sales teams, announced that it has received an investment from Cisco Investments in an extension of its A1 funding round.

Gong.io Acquires ONDiGO To Extend Its Conversation Intelligence Platform

Gong.io, the market leader in Conversation Intelligence for sales teams, has announced that it has acquired AI-Powered Sales Intelligence platform ONDiGO.

Gong.io Named to the 2018 AI 100, Highlighting Advancements in B2B Sales Conversation Intelligence

CB Insights today named Gong.io to the prestigious AI 100, a select group of promising private companies working on groundbreaking artificial intelligence technology. CB Insights CEO and co-founder Anand Sanwal will reveal the full list of the second annual AI 100 companies at the A-ha! conference in San Francisco.

Why That Sales Prospect Hanging on Your Every Word Is Probably Not Going to Buy From You

As experienced sales professionals will attest, when prospects respond to your demo in a way that seems too good to be true, it often is.

How AI is completely changing enterprise sales

Gong.io has a team of data scientists who have discovered that by digging into the wording, talk-to-listen ratio, inflection, and rate of speech used in thousands of sales calls a company makes each year, sales managers can understand what distinguishes their top-tier performers. That information could help the rest of the team—particularly the middle performers—achieve results similar to those of their top-tier counterparts.

Gong.io Recognised for Outstanding Growth in Top 50 List From SaaS1000.com

Gong.io, the leading SaaS company in the fast-growing category of Conversation Intelligence for sales teams, has been selected as one of the top 50 companies out of 1,000 in the SaaS1000.com ranking. The recognition is based on the company’s rapid six-month employee size growth and overall number of team members.

AI hype has peaked so what’s next?

The best AI solutions are those that exist in what I call an “operational loop,” where they are constantly being fed new data and seeing regular user engagement. A great example of this is Gong.io, which analyzes daily sales recordings and provides performance recommendations.

What it’s like to have the best job in America right now

“I enjoy seeing the final product. The result of our work and the result of our algorithms are often things that are really, really cool,” Lotem Peled, head data scientist at sales intelligence platform Gong.io, told Business Insider.

Seinfeld Helps Make Machines a Little More Human

In 1844, the first telegraph message was sent, laying the groundwork for many advancements that would lead to the internet. Since then, communication has become ever more dependent on technology. Eventually, thanks to advances in AI (artificial intelligence), we may not even realize that we’re talking to a machine instead of a person. Gong.io, an AI-based startup, features a tool that harnesses both machine learning and natural language processing to help train salespeople and customer service reps. That, on its own, may not sound earth shattering, but the game changer is how Gong.io’s creators have used Seinfeld to teach the software about the natural rhythms and cadence of human speech.

Interview with Amit Bendov, CEO and Co-Founder at Gong.io

“We should all be using these technologies to better craft our marketing programs to hone in on the few true benefits our customers are looking for, to better differentiate ourselves, and to stop wasting money on ineffective marketing.”