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The GTMnow Podcast

The ex-engineer who says sales beats product | George Kurdin (CEO, Monk)

Oct 14, 2026 · 33m

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George was a professional poker player, then CEO of a company that sold to Logitech for around $100M, and now he’s the CEO of Monk, an AI company automating accounts receivable. Monk is an API company solving the other side of the ledger from Ramp: getting B2B invoices paid. George gets candid about the go-to-market mistakes he made (“50 more than I expected”), why vertical companies win on in-person workshops, the proprietary “harness” that he argues is the real moat in applied AI, the ext...