Howard Lerman

Founded & IPO'd @yext, @confide, @roam
*The Office That Thinks*
Virtual Office for Remote Work & AI agents

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@gregisenberg So you mean @roam ?

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@samdblond @samdblond drawing inspiration from E11VEN

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Leave it to the legendary @samdblond to figure out permissible ROI for a startup to engage a Private Jet

[Sam Blond @samdblond]

The Monaco Plane: Economics and Impact.

If you've been in SF over the last 10 days, you've likely seen the Monaco Plane flying around. I'm receiving countless messages asking about how expensive it is and if it's working.

So here are those answers:

[Howard Lerman @howard]

@MikeyShulman @bondcap @IVP @usv @ForerunnerVC @matrixvc @lightspeedvp @MenloVentures i love Suno.

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

The future of AI is a companion that already knows you and how you work. Town connects across your inbox, calendar, Slack, docs, messages, and workflows to understand what you need, then starts doing the work with you.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

[Roam @roam]

Run Your OpenClaw Agents From Roam! You can deploy them using one of two bot styles: a Personal Bot for private workflows, drafting, and research, or an Org Bot your whole team can interact with in channels and threads.

Join us live today, June 3rd at 12:30pm ET for a quick workshop, or visit our developer site to get started now. Links in the comments ⬇️

[Howard Lerman @howard]

Does the new Sheets logo remind you of a Bible sitting sideways?

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why i hate channels and strongly prefer DMs or group DMs
-i never know who is lurking in a channel
-random people who i don't want an opinion from are often the first to chime in and set off a dumb chain from a thread
-it seems undirected and unfocused to push a message out... like yelling in the middle of a crowed street... who is supposed to read the message?
-you cannot control who later can be added to a channel and therefore see all the history
-endless threads are a waste of time for anyone passively observing, and often deeply hidden for someone who might actually be relevant
-threads let anyone chime into anything, and therefore pretend like you're engaging
-when I send some a DM they read it and respond fast
-a channel for a topic may contain people A, B, C, D and X but I may just want A, C and X for a certain message without giving a shit what B and D think
-DMs are directed focus, channels are passive sprawl

[Sam Altman @sama]

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"

Ecclesiastes 9:10

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@gregisenberg this happened to me in Japan once. I was deep in a pitch and the Japanese executive fell asleep.

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Claude seems sort of miserable to me

[NYSE 🏛 @NYSE]

Just a taste of the @yext IPO

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@RaminNasibov Legend of the Red Dragon as well

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May @roam !nvestor Update
+113% YoY ARR Growth
+4.2% MoM ARR Growth
+54 logos
+1 million meetings, 4.7 million chats
+114% NDR

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@RaminNasibov SimCity

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

We make your tax rate your body fat percentage

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what did i do to make the airports start marketing themselves to me

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@unusual_whales @Winterrose Ah so you mean Claude

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writing is thinking

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@theallinpod @Jason @bgurley switching back to Codex for a little bit