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A CRM with built-in calling, SMS, and email.

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Steli Efti says Close scaled on founder-led sales content, not ads

Steli Efti says Close launched in 2013 with laptop YouTube videos about sales, that content was the company's only marketing channel for years, and that he later recorded voice memos and post-call clips so a writer could

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