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Lerman: Billing and Contract SaaS Companies Should Just Be Salesforce Features
“A lot of the SaaS companies out there should just be features of Salesforce. In fact, it's annoying that they're not features of Salesforce. Things like billing, things like order management, things like contract management, but Yext is a platform in itself.”
Lerman: Going Public Is Essential; VCs Discourage It Out of Self-Interest
“First off, being public is way better than being private. For those people that say that you shouldn't be public, that's just a timing thing. And honestly, sometimes it's a VC that has a self-interest that wants to do a late stage round before you go public. B…”
Lerman: Augmented Reality and Voice Will Replace Smartphones as Next UI
“Augmented reality is going to be the other part of that puzzle that completes the evolution away from the smartphone into a next generation user interface.”
Lerman: Every Website Owner Will Soon Need an AI Structured Database
“Well, it's the whole concept of the web to the brain. Every business in the world that today has a website will very soon have a brain, and that brain is a structured database of their public facts. If you're a restaurant, it's your stores, your menus, your ev…”
Lerman: History's Greatest Companies Are Built Organically Bottom-Up
“I will say that I think if you historically look back at the greatest companies in history, they typically have come from more of a grassroots organic type of feel like Microsoft or Apple or even IBM or going back to the Ford Motor Company, going back eons ago…”
Lerman: 12 Direct Reports Is the Maximum a Leader Can Manage
“I've got, yes, now I think 12, and that's about the maximum number that I think a leader can really have”
Lerman: Startup Success Almost Never Comes From the Initial Idea
“What you find is that the original idea you have is almost never, unless you're extraordinarily lucky, the idea that you end up winning with.”
Lerman: Five-Minute Employee Meetings Are Best for 1,000-Person Companies
“Now you obviously can't do this, you know, when the company gets to a 100,000 people, but for running a 1000 to 3000 person company to get an idea of what's going on, there is no better technique than the Teddy Roosevelt five minute meeting.”
Lerman: Memorizing Speeches Orally Forces Shorter, More Memorable Delivery
“When you memorize a line, you craft it as you write it. If it's a line you say out loud, it will be better than a line that you've written down. If it's a line that you say out loud, if you want to remember it, each time you try to memorize it, you're going to…”
Lerman: Treating Venture Fundraising as an End Goal Is a Mistake
“In fact, the gamemanship of entrepreneurship, I would argue, that is raising a C round, raising an A round. A lot of entrepreneurs buck up and think that raising a round is the end of itself, and it's the human desire for that conclusion, for that feeling of, …”
Lerman: Automated Voice Transcription Reached 96% Accuracy, Matching Human Ears
“And a lot of the reason that voice has become big in the last couple of years is because of the fact that we've gotten really good at transcription. We're now at, you know, 96, 97% accuracy, which is about as good as the human ear at transcribing things.”