Lumos House Talks

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 gets into what it really means to build something that grows beyond you, why the playbook for almost everything — events, software, careers, content — is being rewritten right now, and what founders keep getting wrong when they chase the next shiny thing instead of doubling down on what's already working. He also shares what the job market actually looks like from where he sits, and why showing up to an interview with something you built will always beat a deck full of stories. Honest, sharp, and genuinely hard to stop listening to.

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 the words they're too close to see themselves. She gets into why most startup marketing breaks down before it even begins, what enterprise companies get wrong about speaking to real people, and how she turns technical complexity into stories that actually move audiences. She also breaks down what separates founders who cut through from those who disappear into the noise — and it's rarely about budget or product quality. Sharp, honest, and genuinely useful for anyone trying to build something worth talking about.