Howard Lerman

Howard Lerman (born February 27, 1980) is an American entrepreneur. Lerman was the CEO of Yext, a technology startup and Software as a Service company he co-founded that provides businesses with a way to update business information. THis including addresses and phone numbers, to multiple channels, such as landing pages, listings, and social pages, from a single source, the Yext Knowledge Engine.

Lerman also launched Confide, an iOS app which allows professionals to send one another messages that are untraceable, operating similarly to Snapchat, but for the business world.

Early life Lerman grew up in Vienna, Virginia and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a magnet school with various amenities such as a $1 million supercomputer, located in Fairfax County, in 1998. In the days before the Internet, Lerman rigged a phone line to his computer to allow him to chat online with others who had done the same, including fellow hacker and future entrepreneur, Sean Parker.

Career

JustATip.com In 2000, his sophomore year at Duke University, Lerman and two former high school classmates, Tom Dixon and Sean MacIsaac launched JustATip.com, a humorous website that allowed users to e-mail friends “tips” anonymously. Jon Stewart used the site on The Daily Show, resulting in a large increase in website traffic. In 2001, Lerman and his partners sold JustATip.com to Traffix, a publicly traded online marketer, for $150,000. now called Yext Listings. Yext's Knowledge Engine now offers a suite of products, expanding the company's services beyond simply business listings. and 2015. Yext has been recognized as one of America's fastest-growing companies by the Inc. 5000 in 2015 and 2016, and as one of Fortune's Best Places to Work in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Lerman stepped down as Yext's CEO in March 2022.

Confide Lerman is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide with former AOL executive Jon Brod.

Roam Lerman is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Roam, a platform which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies.

Personal life Lerman lives in Miami Beach, Florida with his wife, Wendy.