Godard Abel — CEO @ G2 | PEAK Entrepreneur
CEO @ G2 | PEAK Entrepreneur
Godard Abel ranks #176 of 18,566 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 60 days at a 2.7% average engagement rate.
- 22.3K followers
- 9 posts / 60d
- 2.7% 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 1% in Computer Software — Ranked #28 of 4742 creators
- Top 5% Impact — 592 avg engagements per post
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #70 of 5851 creators
- Top 5% Audience — 22,264 followers
Recent posts
In the last two years, 82% of B2B buyers have turned to an AI chatbot to help narrow down their software options. By the time a deal shows up in your pipeline, most sales teams are already several steps behind. Spotting demand in your pipeline used to be enough. Now, buyers show up already informed and expecting proof to help them make the right decisions. Today, at G2's Quarterly Innovation Drop, we’re announcing three tools built for exactly that moment: 🎯 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: We built G2 Buyer Intent directly into paid media, including The Trade Desk, DV360, Amazon DSP, and
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Just wrapped an incredible few days in San Francisco for Dreamforce. Every year it reminds me why we build software for people, not around them. Monday night set the tone. Hundreds of customers, partners, and prospects packed into the Battery for a happy hour G2 hosted with 1mind, enjoying custom drinks and even better conversations. Cyril Delattre also spent the night showing off G2's new public beta of Agent Evaluations. Watching people's reactions in real time confirmed for me that enterprises aren't just asking which agent to buy anymore. They want to know which ones they can trust. Then
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One stat stopped me this week: 10,259 new AI products were added to G2 this year — including 2,856 in July alone! 📈 In my 25+ years of entrepreneurship, I've never seen a market grow this fast on this many fronts at once — new products, new categories, new companies, every single month. This is what a real market looks like when it's scaling at a rapid pace. As of July 2026, we observed the following on G2: ▪️ 111 AI categories on G2, up 152% year-over-year ▪️ 30,274 AI products listed across those categories — up 630% YoY ▪️ 265,194 reviews of AI products — up 61% YoY ▪️ 10,259 new AI
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Last updated 2026-08-01