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Elay Cohen on the TechTO stage

Elay Cohen

Co-founder & CEO, SalesHood

SalesSan FranciscoOn TechTO stages since 2016

Elay Cohen co-founded SalesHood in 2013 and is its CEO. Before that he was SVP of sales productivity at Salesforce, onboarding 50 to 100 reps every two weeks as the company scaled from $500M to over $3B in revenue, and was named its 2011 executive of the year. He spoke at SalesTO in 2016.

On the TechTO stage ×1

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2016. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Elay

In their words

If you practice your presentations your stories your demos, you sincerely genuinely practice and you get feedback from your managers and from your peers, you will generate more pipeline and you will make more money.

TechTO SalesTO, Dec 2016 · watch at 11:34
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Quick answers

What is SalesHood?

A San Francisco revenue-enablement platform for sales training, coaching, content management and buyer engagement, now positioned around agentic AI. It added native support for 19 languages in July 2026.

What did Elay Cohen do at Salesforce?

He was SVP of sales productivity, onboarding 50 to 100 sales reps every two weeks while the company grew from $500M to more than $3B in revenue. Marc Benioff named him Salesforce's 2011 executive of the year.

Has Elay Cohen written any books?

Yes - SalesHood and Enablement Mastery.

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