# Village Global Podcast: the investor podcast, by episode

> Village Global Podcast: An early-stage fund talking to founders and investors about building and backing companies.

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Investors · new episode 8 Oct 2026

# Village Global Podcast

Hosted by **Village Global**

An early-stage fund talking to founders and investors about building and backing companies.

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**710** episodes

**340** investors heard as guests

**56 min** an average episode

43 in the last 12 months

## The regulars

Investors named as guests in the most episode titles on Village Global Podcast.

[SM *8* **Sheel Mohnot** 500 Global](https://millionrounds.com/person/sheel-mohnot)[MM *7* **Mike Maples** Floodgate](https://millionrounds.com/person/mike-maples)[TC *7* **Tyler Cowen** 7 episodes](https://millionrounds.com/person/tyler-cowen)[AH *6* **Ali Hamed** CoVenture](https://millionrounds.com/person/ali-hamed)[NS *6* **Noah Smith** Front Row Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/person/noah-smith)[AF *5* **Ash Fontana** Zetta Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/person/ash-fontana)[GI *5* **Greg Isenberg** 5 episodes](https://millionrounds.com/person/greg-isenberg)[KB *5* **Katherine Boyle** General Catalyst](https://millionrounds.com/person/katherine-boyle)[AK *4* **Andreas Klinger** Remote First Capital](https://millionrounds.com/person/andreas-klinger-2)[DA *4* **Delian Asparouhov** Founders Fund](https://millionrounds.com/person/delian-asparouhov)[JH *4* **Jacob Helberg** 4 episodes](https://millionrounds.com/person/jacob-helberg)[JC *4* **James Currier** NFX](https://millionrounds.com/person/james-currier)

## Every episode 710 · page 1 of 24

- 710 **Zynga's Founder on Failure, Founder Mode, and What AI Still Can't Do | Mark Pincus (Zynga)** 8 Oct 2026 · 45 min [Mark Pincus](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-pincus)[Ben Casnocha](https://millionrounds.com/person/ben-casnocha) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 709 **Why the Hearing Aid Industry Stopped Innovating, and How Legato Changed That |Mehul Trivedi, Legato** 1 Oct 2026 · 57 min [Mehul Trivedi](https://millionrounds.com/person/mehul-trivedi) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 708 **Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)** 24 Sept 2026 · 1h 27m [Andre Charoo](https://millionrounds.com/person/andre-charoo)[Jane Lee](https://millionrounds.com/person/jane-lee-2) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 707 **Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)** 3 Sept 2026 · 31 min [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 706 **Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & Investor** 27 Aug 2026 · 58 min About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 705 **What It Actually Takes to Get a Venture Capitalist to Say Yes | Max Kilberg (Village Global) & Michael Hochberg (Periplous)** 20 Aug 2026 · 1h 5m [Max Kilberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/max-kilberg)[Michael Hochberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/michael-hochberg) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 704 **From Milking Cows in Kyrgyzstan to Building a $98%-Approval Law Firm | Aizada Marat (Alma)** 13 Aug 2026 · 1h 6m About this episode 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,… ▶Show page
- 703 **Building the Company Behind 1 Million Therapy Visits a Month | Jake Cooper (Grow Therapy)** 6 Aug 2026 · 46 min [Jake Cooper](https://millionrounds.com/person/jake-cooper)[Ben Casnocha](https://millionrounds.com/person/ben-casnocha) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 702 **The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)** 29 Jul 2026 · 39 min [Jeff Immelt](https://millionrounds.com/person/jeff-immelt) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 701 **How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)** 23 Jul 2026 · 50 min About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 700 **Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)** 16 Jul 2026 · 50 min [Somrat Niyogi](https://millionrounds.com/person/somrat-niyogi) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 699 **Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)** 9 Jul 2026 · 1h 35m About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 698 **Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)** 11 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 697 **Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America | Alex Jekowsky** 21 May 2026 · 1h 2m About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 696 **LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman** 20 May 2026 · 58 min [Aaron Levie](https://millionrounds.com/fund/aaron-levie)[Reid Hoffman](https://millionrounds.com/fund/reid-hoffman) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 695 **Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong, Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton** 14 May 2026 · 52 min About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 694 **Why Your Next Executive Assistant Will Be an AI, Deon Nicholas (Espa.ai)** 7 May 2026 · 41 min [Deon Nicholas](https://millionrounds.com/person/deon-nicholas) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 693 **Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)** 23 Apr 2026 · 1h 9m [Jake Saper](https://millionrounds.com/person/jake-saper) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 692 **Recall Sessions: Building a $1.1B Category That Didn't Exist | Nick Mehta (Gainsight)** 9 Apr 2026 · 42 min [Nick Mehta](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nick-mehta)[Vista Equity Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/vista-equity-partners)[Somrat Niyogi](https://millionrounds.com/person/somrat-niyogi) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 691 **Worldbuilders: Building Digital Minds and Why Humans Still Matter | Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi)** 3 Apr 2026 · 37 min [Dara Ladjevardian](https://millionrounds.com/person/dara-ladjevardian)[Founders Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founders-fund) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 690 **Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick Thompson** 26 Mar 2026 · 55 min [Doug Camplejohn](https://millionrounds.com/person/doug-camplejohn)[Somrat Niyogi](https://millionrounds.com/person/somrat-niyogi) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 689 **Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh** 18 Mar 2026 · 13 min About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 688 **Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)** 13 Mar 2026 · 43 min About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 687 **Recall Sessions: How Moveworks Went From First Customer to $2.85B with Bhavin Shah** 11 Mar 2026 · 1h 0m [Bhavin Shah](https://millionrounds.com/person/bhavin-shah)[Somrat Niyogi](https://millionrounds.com/person/somrat-niyogi) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 686 **Parth Patil on Coding Agents, Building Reid AI, and What It Takes to Operate at the Frontier** 5 Mar 2026 · 1h 6m [Reid Hoffman](https://millionrounds.com/fund/reid-hoffman) 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… ▶Show page
- 685 **Recall Sessions: Tomer London on Building Gusto from ZenPayroll to 400,000 Customers** 3 Mar 2026 · 38 min [Tomer London](https://millionrounds.com/person/tomer-london) 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… ▶Show page
- 684 **[Highlight] What Happens to Society When We Live to 100? with Celine Halioua** 24 Feb 2026 · 11 min [Celine Halioua](https://millionrounds.com/person/celine-halioua) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 683 **Recall Sessions: Itai Damti on Embedded Finance and the Art of Getting Your First Customer** 23 Feb 2026 · 46 min [Itai Damti](https://millionrounds.com/person/itai-damti) 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… ▶Show page
- 682 **[Highlight] Why Dog Longevity Drugs Are the Fastest Path to Human Longevity with Celine Halioua** 19 Feb 2026 · 12 min [Celine Halioua](https://millionrounds.com/person/celine-halioua) About this episode 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… ▶Show page
- 681 **[Highlight] Shishir Mehrotra on Big Tech vs. Startup Careers and Building a World-Class Hiring Process** 16 Feb 2026 · 8 min [Shishir Mehrotra](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shishir-mehrotra)[Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments)[Ben Casnocha](https://millionrounds.com/person/ben-casnocha) About this episode 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… ▶Show page

## Who the show talks about

Firms named in its episodes, and people named in descriptions: talked about, rather than on the show.

[B **Brett Bolkowy** *72*](https://millionrounds.com/person/brett-bolkowy)[**On Deck** *44*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/on-deck)[B **Ben Casnocha** *28*](https://millionrounds.com/person/ben-casnocha)[**Founders Fund** *26*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founders-fund)[**Google** *20*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments)[A **Anne Dwane** *14*](https://millionrounds.com/person/anne-dwane)[**AngelList** *13*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/angellist)[**First Round Capital** *13*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/first-round-capital)[K **Keith Rabois** *12*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/keith-rabois)[P **Peter Thiel** *12*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/peter-thiel)[**Reid Hoffman** *12*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/reid-hoffman)[G **Grace Chen** *10*](https://millionrounds.com/person/grace-chen)

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