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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 2025-09-12 · 66 min · 13,250 words

20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong

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This is 20 Sales with me, Harry Stabbings. Now, 20 Sales is the monthly show where we sit down with the best sales minds in the business to discuss how they start, scale, and master sales teams. Today we're joined by Amit Bandov, co-founder and CEO of Gong, the leading AI sales platform. Now the company has raised over$600 million from some of the best, including Sequoia, Thrive, Salesforce, and more. And Gong has surpassed 400 million in ARR and serves thousands of customers, including multiple Fortune hundreds, and is valued at over$7 billion. But before we dive into the show today. Is your finance team a cost center, tied up in enforcing policies, bogged down by cumbersome processes, and drowning in operational busy work? Well, what if you could unlock seamless, strategic finance that actually fuels your business growth? This is why leading global growth companies use Payhawk, the finance orchestration platform that unifies Global spam management with conversational AI to deliver best user experience for

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