Lumos House Talks

What does it take to go from a factory floor in India to building the marketing playbook for the future of AI-powered commerce? In this episode of Lumos Talks , Aashish Takkala — Product Marketing Leader at Glance, and formerly of Meta and TikTok — walks us through a career that started in mechanical engineering, took a sharp turn into data science, and eventually landed him at the intersection of...

What happens when a neuroscientist spends a decade building AI before most people knew what it was? In this episode of Lumos Talks , Yael Burla — Staff Product Marketing Manager at Cohere, leading go-to-market for their Agentic Enterprise platform — traces a career path that runs from studying the human brain to marketing some of the most complex AI systems in the enterprise world. She gets into w...

What does it take to build something people actually show up for — again and again? In this episode of Lumos Talks, Andrew Yeung takes us through one of the more unexpected founder journeys you'll hear this year. He moved to New York in 2020 knowing nobody, in a city that had emptied out, and turned that into 300 events, 50,000 founders, and a full-time business built entirely on community. He get...

What does it actually take to turn a complex idea into something people feel? In this episode of Lumos Talks, Ran Wei Baker — Head of Marketing at Microsoft for Startups — pulls back the curtain on what it's really like to sit at the crossroads of enterprise scale and founder speed. Her career spans B2B, DTC, and deep into the world of early-stage AI, and she's spent years helping founders find th...

What does it take to build brands that actually matter in culture? In this episode of Lumos Talks , Ryan shares a career path that runs through music, street marketing, branded content, celebrity ventures, space storytelling, and some of the most unconventional growth environments you could imagine. From helping artists get seen everywhere to advising companies and institutions on how to speak to...

What actually drives growth when everyone is running the same playbook? In this episode of Lumos Talks, Eddie Yoon — growth operator, AI commentator, and builder in the creative AI space — breaks down what brands still get wrong about marketing. From his early days scaling apps and gaming products to his current work in AI, Eddie shares why awareness matters more than most teams admit, why persona...

Search is changing. Fast. In this episode of Lumos Talks , Kevin Miller, co-founder and CEO of GRO, breaks down how performance marketing is evolving as AI search starts to reshape the way people discover brands. Kevin shares how he went from early digital marketing experiments to leading an agency focused on paid media, SEO, and GEO — and why the smartest teams are already rethinking how they cre...

What does it take to market products in industries where the rules are still being written? In Episode 2 of Lumos Talks , we sit down with Matt Rosenberg, a marketing leader who has helped scale brands across streaming, cannabis, and wellness. From the early days at Pandora helping introduce streaming radio to the masses, to monopolizing billboards across California for one of the first cannabis d...

Episode Notes What does it take to market something people don’t even want to pay for? In this episode of Lumos Talks , we sit down with Ian Chambers, Director of Marketing & Paid Media at Concord Music Group, to talk performance marketing in one of the toughest industries on earth: music. From explaining pixels to record executives 15 years ago to using digital billboards around major festiva...

Episode Notes In this episode, we sit down with Chris Petkas, General Partner at Contrarian Capital, to dive deep into why "boring businesses" are the real backbone of the economy—and why they're ripe for innovation. We explore how Contrarian Capital is funding the digitization of small businesses, building audience-driven flywheels, and helping portfolio companies go far beyond just rai...

Episode Notes Welcome to "Beyond the Billboard," a talk during Lumos House to how AI is reshaping the future of Out-of-Home (OOH) marketing. Join Lina Maggi, SVP of Partnership at BCN Visuals, and Matei Psatta, CMO and co-founder of Blindspot, as they talk about groundbreaking innovations in Out-Of-Home advertising technology. Curated specifically for bold marketing professionals and amb...

Episode Notes Learn how the top operators are leveraging AI to build and scale successfully. This session goes beyond theory, diving into real-world strategies for integrating AI into businesses, optimizing workflows, and unlocking new efficiencies. Don’t miss this deep dive into value creation in overlooked sectors and the next wave of AI adoption. C hristopher Petkas is a General Partner at Cont...

We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped 20,000 advertisers get their message out there. We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn shine a flashlight in the dark. That’s why we started and sponsor...

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped  20,000 advertisers get their message out there. We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn shine a flashlight in the dark. That’s  why we sta...

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot, and we created a platform that so far has helped 20,000 advertisers step out into the spotlight and advertise on any digital billboard in the world. To take this even one step further, we created Lumos House, a series of events where people meet and discuss openly to learn from each other and share authentic experiences. In this episode, we sit down with Suffiyan Mal...

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped  20,000 advertisers get their message out there. We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn shine a flashlight in the dark. That’s  why we sta...

Episode Notes In this episode of the Lumos House Podcast , co-founder Bogdan Savonea sits down with Kayla Kavanaugh, a pre-seed investor at A4 Capital, and Umesh Khanna, a product lead at Dropbox AI and venture scout at Andreessen Horowitz, to explore the exhilarating and unpredictable early stages of building startups. The conversation dives into what it takes to navigate the pre-seed phase, the...

Episode Notes Welcome to another illuminating episode of Lumos Talks at the Lumos House! In this raw and candid discussion, hosts Bogdan & Razvan sit down with industry powerhouse and creative maverick, Seb Webber. From his early days spinning records in underground London clubs to managing iconic artists at XL Recordings, Seb’s journey has been anything but ordinary. Tune in to hear about his...

Episode Notes Welcome to our special event at Lumos House during New York Tech Week 2024! Join us as we bring together extraordinary founders, entrepreneurs, and creatives to share their inspiring stories and invaluable insights. In this video, you'll hear from Andrew Yeung, one of the visionaries behind Lumos House, and learn about his journey from working at Facebook and Google to building a suc...

Episode Notes Join us for an exciting look inside Lumos House, where founders, investors, and innovators come together to create meaningful connections and conversations. In this video, we explore the evolution of Lumos House from its beginnings in Austin to its latest event in New York City. Hear from Jesse Middleton of Flybridge and Ihar Mahaniok of Geek Ventures as they discuss the importance o...

Episode Notes Join us for an exciting look inside Lumos House, where founders, investors, and innovators come together to create meaningful connections and conversations. In this video, we explore the evolution of Lumos House from its beginnings in Austin to its latest event in New York City. Hear from Jesse Middleton of Flybridge and Bogdan Savonea as they discuss the importance of community, the...