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Lemkin: CEOs Read Every Inbound Email and Reply If Top Problems Addressed
“CEOs read like every email. Every email. And it's just, they don't, Howard's nodding his head. Even when he was running Yext, 22 quarters is a public. He didn't respond to any of them. And if the email was great, if it was like, if it was going to solve one of…”
Lerman: Yext operated with 30 to 35 direct reports to the CEO
“I used to have, when I was running Yext, probably technically, 30 to 35 direct reports, but realistically, everybody reported to me, if that makes any sense.”
Howard Lerman: Intuit considered acquiring Yext ten to twelve years ago
“One time Intuit thought about buying Yext. So this was 1012 years ago, way before we were public.”
Lerman: Yext signed every gym by recruiting IHRSA's president as advisor
“In fact, when I started Yext, the very first thing I did, we were selling to gyms, and I called the founder and president of Ursa, which is the trade organization for gyms, and this was in And this is really old school. And he is now, you know, 78, 80, but I m…”
Lerman: Yext's iBeacon product 'Zone' was his biggest career failure
“One of the biggest failures of my career was a thing called a zone at Yext. It was a product that Used a beacon. I don't know if you remember the beacons, the iBeacon protocol that Apple launched, that basically was this Bluetooth thing that could wake up your…”