
He helped build Yext into a public company. With Roam, Howard Lerman is chasing something he remembers from its earliest days: the quick conversation that never needed a calendar invitation.
Hearsay made social posts, texts and calls usable at the scale of a financial firm. Its clever trick was to let an advisor sound like a person while giving the institution a record it could defend.

She learned marketing on the job, helped take Yext public, and still insists the discipline cannot live by dashboards alone. At Chainguard, Liz Egan is putting a company builder’s instinct behind the quiet machinery of secure open source.