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- 710Zynga's Founder on Failure, Founder Mode, and What AI Still Can't Do | Mark Pincus (Zynga)8 Oct 2026 · 45 minMark PincusBen Casnocha▶Show page
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Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga and a Village Global Luminary LP. He took Zynga public after starting it as a social poker game for Facebook, and it was his fourth company, after earlier ventures that included Tribe.net , one of the first social networks. Ben Casnocha, co-founder of Village Global, sits down with…
- 709Why the Hearing Aid Industry Stopped Innovating, and How Legato Changed That |Mehul Trivedi, Legato1 Oct 2026 · 57 minMehul Trivedi▶Show page
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Mehul Trivedi is co-founder and CEO of Legato, a company building glasses that double as prescription-grade hearing aids. Before Legato, he was one of the first audio engineers on the original iPhone, led Bose's wearables and headphone group, and helped build out Luxottica's smart eyewear division, including…
- 708Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)24 Sept 2026 · 1h 27mAndre CharooJane Lee▶Show page
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Andre Charoo is Founding Partner of Maple VC, a first-check venture firm, and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. Before venture, he was employee number 25 at Uber and an early employee at Hired.com , and built or joined four seed-stage startups between 2009 and 2016. Amrit Rao, General Partner at Village…
- 707Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)3 Sept 2026 · 31 minGoogle▶Show page
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Tanay Kothari is co-founder and CEO of Wispr Flow, a voice AI company he started with co-founder Sahaj Garg in 2021, building toward a Jarvis-like assistant that lets people interact with computers through natural speech instead of keyboards and screens. His younger brother, Jaisal Kothari, is co-founder and CEO of…
- 706Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & Investor27 Aug 2026 · 58 min▶Show page
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Jade Q. Wang is an artist, investor, scientist, and founder. A Stanford grad with a PhD in neuroscience, she retired roughly a year ago from a career in tech to pursue art and angel investing full time. Amrit Rao, General Partner at Village Global, sits down with Jade to trace her path from a childhood spent training…
- 705What It Actually Takes to Get a Venture Capitalist to Say Yes | Max Kilberg (Village Global) & Michael Hochberg (Periplous)20 Aug 2026 · 1h 5mMax KilbergMichael Hochberg▶Show page
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Michael Hochberg is a semiconductor entrepreneur, Caltech-trained physicist, and network investor with Village Global. He's founder and president of Periplous LLC, and has built and scaled hardware and deep tech companies through multiple market cycles, giving him a front-row seat to both the chip industry and the…
- 704From Milking Cows in Kyrgyzstan to Building a $98%-Approval Law Firm | Aizada Marat (Alma)13 Aug 2026 · 1h 6m▶Show page
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Aizada Marat is co-founder and CEO of Alma, an immigration law firm that combines the expertise of seasoned attorneys with AI to streamline the immigration process for individuals and businesses. Alma has achieved a 98% approval rate on its cases and can prosecute in half the time of a traditional firm. Amrit Rao,…
- 703Building the Company Behind 1 Million Therapy Visits a Month | Jake Cooper (Grow Therapy)6 Aug 2026 · 46 minJake CooperBen Casnocha▶Show page
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JakeCooper is co-founder and CEO of Grow Therapy, a technology platform that helps mental health providers launch and scale independent, insurance-accepted practices. Since starting the company in the middle of COVID, Jake and his co-founders have scaled Grow Therapy to around a million patient visits a month across…
- 702The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)29 Jul 2026 · 39 minJeff Immelt▶Show page
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Paul Eremenko is co-founder and CEO of P-1 AI, the company building Archie, an AI mechanical and electrical engineer that works alongside human engineering teams. Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner at NEA and former Chairman and CEO of GE, and he's joining P-1 AI's board after leading the firm's investment in the…
- 701How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)23 Jul 2026 · 50 min▶Show page
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Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, which he started in 2021 to help companies detect and defend against software supply chain attacks. A prolific open source maintainer whose packages are downloaded a billion times a month, Feross recently closed a Series C at a billion-dollar valuation, and Socket…
- 700Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)16 Jul 2026 · 50 minSomrat Niyogi▶Show page
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Jeff Cobourn leads finance, business operations, and strategy at Gusto, where he's spent nearly nine years building out the company's financial infrastructure. Rohit Divate recently joined Tide as VP of Finance after seven years in corporate finance and strategy at Gusto. Somrat Niyogi, General Partner at Recall…
- 699Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)9 Jul 2026 · 1h 35m▶Show page
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Sherwood Callaway is the founder and CEO of Sazabi, an AI-native observability platform, and a repeat YC founder. He previously worked as an early infrastructure engineer at Brex, where he built the systems that kept one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world running. Village Global Luminary LP Lindsay…
- 698Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)11 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m▶Show page
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Moe Katib is the founder and CEO of One (withone.ai), an enterprise-level infrastructure platform that gives AI agents authenticated, reliable access to hundreds of software applications and verified actions. Before One, he spent 12 years solving enterprise integration problems, building the knowledge base that became…
- 697Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America | Alex Jekowsky21 May 2026 · 1h 2m▶Show page
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Alex Jekowsky is the co-founder and CEO of Cents, the all-in-one software, hardware, and payments platform for the laundry industry. A Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, he sold his first company at 23, and last month closed a $140 million Series C. Cents now powers more than 1 in 6 laundromats in the country and processes…
- 696LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman20 May 2026 · 58 minAaron LevieReid Hoffman▶Show page
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In this episode of the Village Global Podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Village Global Chairman Reid Hoffman and host Ben Casnocha live on stage at a Village Global event. They get into what agents actually do to SaaS, where startups should go on offense, and what twenty years of building Box has taught Aaron about…
- 695Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong, Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton14 May 2026 · 52 min▶Show page
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Somrat Niyogi sits down with two of the most experienced comms operators in tech: Kelly Boynton, Head of Communications at Gusto, and Paul Loeffler, former SVP of Communications and Brand at BILL. Kelly spent 15 years across agency and in-house roles before Gusto, including at Facebook, Instagram, Intuit, Navan, and…
- 694Why Your Next Executive Assistant Will Be an AI, Deon Nicholas (Espa.ai)7 May 2026 · 41 minDeon Nicholas▶Show page
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Deon is the co-founder and CEO of Espa Labs. His previous company, Forethought, was a TechCrunch Disrupt winner in 2018, scaled to roughly a billion customer interactions a month, and was recently acquired by Zendesk, where Deon now serves as advisor. Village Global GP Anne Dwane sits down with Deon to talk about the…
- 693Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)23 Apr 2026 · 1h 9mJake Saper▶Show page
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Jake Saper is General Partner at Emergence Capital, the firm that was the first institutional investor in Zoom and an early backer of Salesforce, Veeva, Bill.com, and Together.ai. Jake has been at Emergence for over a decade and has led investments in Assembled, Unify, and Ironclad. Jake has developed Emergence's…
- 692Recall Sessions: Building a $1.1B Category That Didn't Exist | Nick Mehta (Gainsight)9 Apr 2026 · 42 minNick MehtaVista Equity PartnersSomrat Niyogi▶Show page
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Nick Mehta is the former CEO of Gainsight, the platform that helps companies drive durable growth through customer-led and product-led strategies. Vista Equity Partners acquired Gainsight for $1.1 billion. Nick ran the company as CEO for 13 years before stepping into a board role last year. Nick has also co-authored…
- 691Worldbuilders: Building Digital Minds and Why Humans Still Matter | Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi)3 Apr 2026 · 37 minDara LadjevardianFounders Fund▶Show page
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Dara Ladjevardian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delphi, a platform that lets you create a digital version of your mind, an interactive, always-on presence that can share your knowledge, coach others, and represent you at scale. Delphi has raised $16 million in a Series A led by Sequoia, with earlier backing from…
- 690Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick Thompson26 Mar 2026 · 55 minDoug CamplejohnSomrat Niyogi▶Show page
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Doug Camplejohn is the Founder & CEO of Coffee, an AI-first CRM. Doug co-founded Fliptop (acquired by LinkedIn), led Sales Navigator at LinkedIn as VP of Product, then ran Sales Cloud at Salesforce as EVP and GM. He's also had exits with Mi5 Networks (acquired by Symantec) and MyPlay (acquired by Bertelsmann). Patrick…
- 689Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh18 Mar 2026 · 13 min▶Show page
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Sumeet Singh, Founder & Managing Partner of Worldbuild, lays out his investing thesis for the AI era: The Model Economy. His argument is that most AI startups being built today are fighting a losing battle against the scaling laws. The models themselves will swallow the application layer. So where does durable value…
- 688Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)13 Mar 2026 · 43 min▶Show page
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This is the first episode of Worldbuilders, a new series on the Village Global Podcast guest-hosted by Sumeet Singh, Founder & Managing Partner of Worldbuild. Sumeet sits down with Evan Conrad, Founder & CEO of the San Francisco Compute Company, to talk about the real economics of GPU compute, how SF Compute went from…
- 687Recall Sessions: How Moveworks Went From First Customer to $2.85B with Bhavin Shah11 Mar 2026 · 1h 0mBhavin ShahSomrat Niyogi▶Show page
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Bhavin Shah spent years building Moveworks into the agentic AI platform behind employee support at Toyota, Siemens, Unilever, and hundreds more. In December 2025, ServiceNow acquired Moveworks for $2.85 billion. In this episode of Recall Sessions, Somrat Niyogi goes back to the beginning. How did four co-founders find…
- 686Parth Patil on Coding Agents, Building Reid AI, and What It Takes to Operate at the Frontier5 Mar 2026 · 1h 6mReid Hoffman▶Show page
About this episode
Parth Patil built Reid Hoffman's AI digital twin from scratch, without engineering team or a software background. Before that, he was a data scientist at Clubhouse. When GPT-4 came out, he cashed out his 401k and spent four months talking to the model every day. He came out of that running Reid's AI work. He now…
- 685Recall Sessions: Tomer London on Building Gusto from ZenPayroll to 400,000 Customers3 Mar 2026 · 38 minTomer London▶Show page
About this episode
Welcome to Recall Sessions - a series on the Village Global Podcast hosted by Somrat Niyogi, Partner at Recall Capital. Each episode goes deep on how the world's most successful companies got their first customers. In this episode, Somrat sits down with Tomer London, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Gusto, to…
- 684[Highlight] What Happens to Society When We Live to 100? with Celine Halioua24 Feb 2026 · 11 minCeline Halioua▶Show page
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This is a short excerpt from our full conversation with Celine Halioua, Founder & CEO of Loyal, which recently raised a $100M Series C, and Village Global GP Sam Kirschner. Celine discusses what's still non-consensus in longevity, how cognitive aging shapes our preferences and worldviews, and what society looks like…
- 683Recall Sessions: Itai Damti on Embedded Finance and the Art of Getting Your First Customer23 Feb 2026 · 46 minItai Damti▶Show page
About this episode
Welcome to Recall Sessions – a new series on the Village Global Podcast. Hosted by Somrat Niyogi, Partner at Recall Capital, each episode goes deep on go-to-market: how the world's most successful companies got their first customers. In this episode, Itai Damti, Co-Founder & CEO of Unit, joins Somrat to break down…
- 682[Highlight] Why Dog Longevity Drugs Are the Fastest Path to Human Longevity with Celine Halioua19 Feb 2026 · 12 minCeline Halioua▶Show page
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This is a short excerpt from our full conversation with Celine Halioua, Founder & CEO of Loyal, which recently raised a $100M Series C, and Village Global GP Sam Kirschner. Celine discusses Loyal's 10-year vision for expanding into cats and humans, why the pharmaceutical industry has been slow to treat aging as a drug…
- 681[Highlight] Shishir Mehrotra on Big Tech vs. Startup Careers and Building a World-Class Hiring Process16 Feb 2026 · 8 minShishir MehrotraGoogleBen Casnocha▶Show page
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This is a short excerpt from our full conversation with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), and Village Global's Ben Casnocha. Shishir and Ben discuss the "Silicon Valley Inc. vs. Google Inc." framework for understanding career tradeoffs, when recruitment firms add value vs. when they don't, and…
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