Howard Lerman

If you are a fully remote team, you should replace slack + zoom with @roam ro.am/influencer/nik

@roam official, great platform!

Since we built our own email app, I can do dope shit like one click embed a @roam Magicast video into an email.

@lexfridman i recommend you visit Miami and come hang out at my house.

I'm traveling the world for a bit, starting with China but then hopping around the globe, anywhere. Open to any adventure. No plans, only a backpack. Hoping to meet & get to know humans from all walks of life. The pic is from a long hike on the Great Wall. For me, as a fan of history, this was an epic experience. In China, first I'm visiting a few big cities & talking to engineers at the heart of China's AI revolution. After that, if feeling crazy enough, I'm hitchhiking (first time) across rural China for a few weeks. Hitchhiking because I think it's the best way to meet rural folks who I would otherwise never get the chance to meet. I hope to do the same in US and other places. I have a request, if you have a travel recommendation, fill out the form(s) below if you feel like it. Or share with folks who might have advice about such travel. Form 1 - travel recommendation: If you can, recommend to me an interesting place I should visit anywhere in the world. For this, fill out form 1. Not touristy stuff, but something off the beaten path, that tourists may not know about, but is legendary. It could be as remote as meeting a herder in the mountains who is a local legend. Asia, Middle East, Europe, India, South/North America, Africa, Australia, anywhere. In China, I'm hoping to visit maybe Heibei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc, so recommendations for spots to visit are helpful. Form 2 - coffee: If you want to grab a coffee with me anywhere in the world, fill out form 2 (please don't use form 1 for that). Anyway, I hectically tossed stuff in backpack. Realizing I don't have a clear plan of any kind, which is probably the only way to do it. LFG. Love you all ❤️

I believe that the greatest thinkers, artists, writers and inventors don’t just uncover the best ideas, they come up with the *most* ideas, so many in rapid fire succession that within their prolific volume, there is greatness. A constant stream of ideas starts out of obession, and then becomes literally impossible to shut it off because it is an opening of light between their mind and the divine force.

i know claude is awesome and all but ChatGPT is just much more creative for copywriting and brainstorming

In case @roam members are seeking cool nyc workspots.

I built Beli for NYC cafes. It updates live with community ratings, lets you search by neighborhood, and saves wifi passwords. I've been collecting the best WFH locations in New York for last 6 months and consolidated them here. Some fun features: - interactive map - community reviews - saved WiFi passwords - live open/closed status - pet-friendly status - category rankings (workability, coffee, food, vibe, music, and crowd) Add your favorite cafe - need more recs in Brooklyn / other boroughs! nyccafelist.com

Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies. The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.

Whenever I see madness in the world, I think back to this observation by Steve Jobs.

@RonDeSantis 🤣

Glad our Founding Fathers declared independence 250 years ago. Say no to Digital ID!

We just integrated our entire AI infrastructre into @roam! I have been talking about this app for years! Check it out ro.am/influencer/ben

Roam customer acquired

We're announcing our $50M Series B led by Benchmark. Founders Fund and Human Capital are tripling down in the round. We gave Benchmark a sneak preview of our upcoming GA release. They saw the future of sales. We had a term sheet 2 hours later. The future of sales is Monaco.

@medinism What was your ARPU?

On the last day of Q4, Salesloft posted a "free lawn mower" ad on Craigslist with my Head of Sales cell phone number. He got over 100 calls. It was a nasty tactic, almost ruined our quarter, and I wish I would have thought of it. It was 2017. Over half of Outreach’s business was SMB and transactional — small deals, fast cycles, the last day of the quarter doing 30% of the month. Mark Kosoglow was on the phone closing those deals. Or trying to. Every other call was someone asking about the lawn mower. It took us six hours to figure out what was happening. One rep checked Craigslist on a hunch and there was the ad. Mark's name. Mark's number. Free lawn mower, come pick it up. We couldn't take it down. It wasn't his ad. So Mark spent most of the day distracted and pissed. That night our team huddled. Michelle Obama was everywhere then — "when they go low, we go high." One of my execs pushed hard for this approach. I agreed. We didn’t respond. That was the wrong fucking call. When business is two guys fighting in a phone booth with a knife, you are always at war. Salesloft threw a good punch. It got us off our feet a little bit. No impact to the quarter, but definitely made it harder than it should. And most importantly it got us talking about them internally. And getting in your head, is free competitive real state. What should we have done? Get right back at them but harder! Hire away their best rep with access to their top accounts. Buy out their contracts. Hire their best engineers. Attack their customer base with all their shortcomings. Profile all their churned customers on targeted ads. Infinite possibilities to respond and a golden opportunity to take this affront as a rallying cry for the team to go take market share. ”When they go low, we stomp on them.” - that’s a better slogan Your job as a startup leader is not to take the moral high ground. The job is to win.

When I see someone using Microsoft Outlook on their iPad, I wonder which part of Germany they're from.

I know this sounds insane I read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds" as a teenager I thought AI would likely have a bubble phase 18 months ago But now I think this is 1000x bigger than the Industrial Evolution This is an evolution of our species

@APompliano Now do that but add in no social media

There is something spiritual about living your life with no alcohol, drugs, nicotine, vaping, steroids, peptides, tattoo ink, Botox, lip injections, spray tans, antidepressants, ADHD meds, or melatonin. Nearly impossible in modern society, but aspirationally superior lifestyle.