Overview Gong is the revenue intelligence platform that essentially created the category. Founded in 2015 by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef, it spent the late 2010s convincing enterprise sales leaders that recording, transcribing, and analyzing every customer call was not just possible but strategically necessary — and spent the 2020s becoming the tool those leaders use to run their teams. By 2026 Gong sits at over $300M ARR, serves thousands of enterprise customers including a large share of the Fortune 500, and has widened the moat between itself and the "conversation intelligence" alternatives to the point that "Gong" has become the verb sales teams use for what the product does. At the center of Gong is a system that records every customer facing conversation your team has — phone calls, web meetings, emails, and Slack DMs — transcribes them with industry tuned speech recognition, and layers a stack of AI models on top to extract insights the humans on the calls could not extract themselves. Sentiment. Topic distribution. Competitor mentions. Objection patterns. Deal risk indicators. Champion identification. Coach worthy moments. What used to require a sales manager listening to twenty calls a week now happens automatically across every call the team has, and the aggregate view is where the strategic value shows up. The one line positioning: Gong is the pick when you are running a growth stage or enterprise sales org and you have decided that the pipeline itself is a data problem — not a discipline problem. It…