Founded & IPO'd @yext, @confide, @roam Virtual Office in a Computer

Miami Beach, FL
Joined January 2009
Roam is $19.50
What's a product under $250 that has genuinely improved your life?
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the Name is the What the Font is the Feel the Story is the Strategy
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why do beatles records still sound better than every record recorded after the beatles records?
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Howard Lerman retweeted
F*** your zoom link
All Hands Theater in Your Pocket on iPhone Duo @roam
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Angels & Airwaves !deas & !nventions
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if you think you have a great idea, put your pen to the paper and actually try and make it, and see how it comes out the space between your head and the prototype is greatly underestimated
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It’s almost like they made the iPhone Duo for @roam
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All Hands Theater in Your Pocket on iPhone Duo @roam
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i’m always negotiating with myself
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everything flows from the Name
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Office in Your Pocket on iPhone Duo @roam
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buzz feels like a new item at Taco Bell, where the beans are BELOW the cheese and above the lettuce, instead of mixed in with tomatoes but ABOVE the cheese.
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just in time for rogue agents operating inside banks to buy the stock
BREAKING: Anthropic to publicly file for IPO as early as Friday, per YF
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Howard Lerman retweeted
also wow @roam got the verified badge!
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Howard Lerman retweeted
We built a $150M ARR business twice. The first time took 8 years. The second took 2.5. Today, Podium crossed $150M in AI annual recurring revenue. Three years ago, we already had a great software business. Well over $100M in revenue, tens of thousands of customers, and a product we'd spent nearly a decade building. And we decided to start over. The business was performing well. But we believed AI was going to fundamentally change the software industry and make much of traditional software obsolete. As a founder, you pour your life into what you're building. An insane amount of time, sacrifice, and effort. The hard part is not getting too attached to it. When we started building our first AI agents, we had to confront the possibility that much of what we'd built might not be that valuable in the future. That's a tough pill to swallow. But we also realized those same 10 years had put us in a unique position to take advantage of what AI could do for our customers. Instead of protecting what we'd spent a decade building, we decided to bet the future of the company on AI employees that actually do the work for our customers. We massively underestimated what we'd signed up for. We ended up building entirely new operating systems for the industries we serve, from the AI agents all the way down to the systems of record. Now customers run their entire businesses on Podium. Reinventing our product wasn't even the hardest part. We had to reinvent how the entire company operated. When you've been running a company for over a decade, the operational inertia is incredibly powerful. We had to rethink how we build products, how we sell, how we serve customers, and how we run the business. We effectively started a second startup inside an already successful company. And we're still at the very beginning. Today, we have 20,000 AI agents working for our customers. They've helped generate more than $13 billion in revenue for those businesses. And we're barely scratching the surface of what AI will be able to do for them. And we've done all of this while becoming profitable and generating free cash flow. We're building Podium to be around for decades. Huge credit to our team for having the guts to make this bet and the ability to actually pull it off. We still have a long way to go and tons of problems to solve, but it's so damn fun to be winning when the opportunity ahead is this big. In the age of AI, you can either disrupt your own company or wait for somebody else to do it. I'd rather do it ourselves.
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til there's a marketing software called Braze and it's worth $5b
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there's no product i love more than when the website is the product
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Howard Lerman retweeted
That’s why companies love Roam ✨
Replying to @lisacrymes @roam
remote teams feel scattered without a central hub, so having a shared address and meeting space sounds genuinely steadying 🙂
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20 years ago
17 years ago today we founded Yext and I set up my first desk with @bdistel. This old doctor's office is NYC's take on the fabled silicon valley garage. I had big ideas for the future back then and I still do today.
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