Building With Buyers: Startup Marketing and Growth Fueled By Customers
178 - Why Your Logical Marketing Content Is Creating More Doubt Than Trust (Peter Light, Co-Founder & CEO at Lumen Energy)
11 Dec 2023
This episode is sponsored by Riverside, your all-in-one podcast and video platform. Go to https://creators.riverside.fm/Anna and use the code MSM23 for 15% off. Peter Light is Co-Founder and CEO at Lumen Energy. Peter and I worked together back in 2021 and at that time Lumen was just a handful of people and they were building out their GTM strategy, positioning, messaging, and team. About Lumen Energy: Founded: 2020 Funding: Series A ($15.3M total) Description: Lumen enables commercial buildings to generate new income from clean energy. In this episode: The early days of Lumen Energy (Seed stage) - who did you bring onto the GTM team, what was your GTM strategy; How did you build trust with prospects as an early stage startup; What were the high points and what were the struggles at Seed stage; How much advice did you follow from your early investors; Why is marketing important and why do you think marketing can be so misunderstood; AMA - Peter asks me his burning question. You can find Peter on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pelight/ Learn more about Lumen Energy: https://getlumen.com/ For more content, subscribe to Modern Startup Marketing on Apple or Spotify or wherever you like to listen, and don't forget to leave a review if you're lovin' the show! And whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: 1. fractional head of marketing for early stage startups >> www.furmanovmarketing.com 2. sponsor my Top 5% podcast and get startup founders, marketers and VCs hearing about your brand >> https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-furmanov 3. sign up to get my monthly early stage startup marketing newsletter where I’m sharing playbooks and insights and cracking some jokes You can also find me hanging out on LinkedIn, definitely say hello and tell me what you're building >> www.linkedin.com/in/annafurmanov
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