Lumos raised like 2.8 million or something over like five years, all rolling $50,000 checks and $5,000 checks. Yelp came calling in 2017 after a company called ZenReach reached out to talk about partnership. "We somehow kept it all together," says the former bandmate who's now an executive coach for Lumos.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Devon Wright to talk about moving from a boat to the country (4:00), starting agricultural and water tech startup Lumo (7:15), inventing a smart valve (11:40), quitting his old job (15:50), his previous companies (17:50), being in a band (20:30), coming to Silicon Valley (25:20), how farmers view drought and extreme weather (28:00), making water systems more efficient (36:40), pitching investors (40:00), and his worst day (41:30).
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