Michael Baum Brings the Splunk Founder Record Into Founders House

The company that reaches scale is carrying decisions the founder made while almost nobody was watching. Michael Baum's Founders House fireside brings some of that earlier record back into the room on November 12.

Baum is CEO of Founder.org and a co-founder of Splunk. Founders House is hosting the New York conversation for people building toward the point where product, team, capital and customer expectations stop moving on separate clocks. Damian Tenuta, Louisa Li and Maya Agnihotri host the approval-required evening.

Why this room matters

The mythology of scale compresses years of uncertainty into a curve that appears inevitable after the fact. The founder lived the sequence differently. Hiring arrived before certainty. Product decisions created obligations. Customers changed the system. Capital made some roads possible while closing others.

A useful fireside does not turn that history into a formula. It gives the room a closer look at the decisions that survived, the ones that did not and the judgment required before the market agreed the company was real.

Event details

• Date: November 12, 2026
• Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Founders House, 33 W 17th St, 11th Floor, New York
• Speaker: Michael Baum, Founder.org CEO and Splunk co-founder
• Hosts: Damian Tenuta, Louisa Li and Maya Agnihotri
• Access: Approval required
• Register: Official event page

Registration is subject to organizer approval. Use the official page for current availability.