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Yext CEO Howard Lerman speaks onstage at the ONWARD17 Conference- Day 2 on November 2, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for ONWARD17) gettyT he idea for Howard Lerman’s next startup came when he forgot to include someone in a Zoom call. It was during the pandemic, when the serial entrepreneur was running Yext, the publicly traded online marketing platform he cofounded. Large videoconference calls were common at the time, with squares of camera-off and camera-on coworkers spilling off the screen. In remote work, “if you forget to add someone to a Zoom calendar invite, it’s like they don't exist,” says Lerman, who also cofounded Confide. “They have no way of knowing that the meeting was going to happen.”Yet that moment sparked the idea of a “Marauder’s Map” for the office, Lerman says, borrowing the Harry Potter concept of a magical diagram that represents both the wizarding school’s interior and people’s locations within it