Godard Abel — CEO @ G2 | PEAK Entrepreneur
CEO @ G2 | PEAK Entrepreneur
Godard Abel ranks #362 of 18,341 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 22.3K followers and published 9 posts in the last 30 days at a 2.8% average engagement rate.
- 22.3K followers
- 9 posts / 30d
- 2.8% avg engagement
- 1.1K follower growth / 30d
The roast
Godard Abel has built a career out of selling software companies to Oracle and Salesforce like he is just flipping house listings for a landlord who refuses to fix the plumbing. He calls his business philosophy PEAK, which is fitting for a guy whose entire personality is just climbing out of the companies before the customers realize the product is broken.
About Godard
I am entrepreneur aspiring to grow and climb to the next PEAK with 25+ years experience building enterprise software leaders currently as cofounder/CEO G2. Prior CPQ software ventures sold to Oracle (BigMachines), Salesforce (Steelbrick CPQ / Revenue Cloud), and ServiceNow (Logik.ai). As G2 co-founder/CEO, I lead a global team of over 500 people who are passionate about delivering trusted insights and AI driven recommendations to B2B buyers and sellers based on authentic customer reviews and real-time data. G2 is the leading software and AI review platform and marketplace with over 3 million reviews read by over 100 million global tech buyers every year. We are driven by the vision of making B2B buying and selling easy and enjoyable for everyone and helping our entrepreneurial family succeed and grow by living our PEAK values (Performance, Entrepreneurship, Authenticity, and Kindness). In addition to G2, I also support and invest in new B2B and AI ventures with our entrepreneurial family and with trusted entrepreneur and investor friends. I am exec chairman at ThreeKit where Matt Gorniak is leading a talented team building a visual commerce AI platform that guides shoppers to best fit solutions. At PartnerFleet I'm supporting founder Kenny Browne and Cody Sunkel in delivering AI powered partner marketplaces and ecosystem developer platforms to over 50 leading enterprise vendors.
Highlights
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #64 of 4683 creators
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #127 of 5774 creators
- High Impact — 615 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Big Audience — 22,264 followers · top 5%
Recent posts
The core of what I value most about G2's Board is that our members aren't watching the AI shift from the sidelines. They're funding it, building inside it, and in some cases, running the companies being transformed by it. So when they have something to say about where B2B software is headed, I listen. We asked a few of them to share what they're seeing and their answers stuck with me. Arun Mathew, Partner at Accel, said AEO has gone from a boardroom concept to the dominant way buyers discover and evaluate software today. Jules Maltz, General Partner at IVP, called G2 the primary tool softw
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Recently, I joined Brandee Sanders⚡️ at the Hard Skill Exchange Agent-to-Agent GTM Summit. During our chat, Brandee and I discussed how trust, intent, and reputation have to become machine readable, as buying moves from search to answers, and now from answers to agents. One framing I kept coming back to: 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀. Humans want shiny, fast, visual content with quotes and videos. Agents are the opposite. They're the straight-A student in the room who wants to read the full book, no pictures, just well-structured text they can crawl in m
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A review you collect today can shape an AI answer as soon as next week, and this new data proves it. G2 growth advisor Kevin Indig tracked 2,514 products on G2 against AI citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Apple, and Google. The median time from a review burst to first citation lift was only four days. That's faster than most companies can publish a blog post. A quarter of products moved within a single day. AI systems are built to pull from structured, trusted review data — and they pull it often. This speed isn't a fluke. It's a structural advantage that most software companies haven't wo
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