Zynga's Founder on Failure, Founder Mode, and What AI Still Can't Do | Mark Pincus (Zynga)
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 Face...
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Why the Hearing Aid Industry Stopped Innovating, and How Legato Changed That |Mehul Trivedi, Legato
Mehul Trivedi is co-founder and CEO of Legato, a company building glasses that double as prescription-grade hearing aids. Before Legato, he...
Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)
Andre Charoo is Founding Partner of Maple VC, a first-check venture firm, and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. Before venture...
Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)
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 Jarvi...
Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & Investor
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...
What It Actually Takes to Get a Venture Capitalist to Say Yes | Max Kilberg (Village Global) & Michael Hochberg (Periplous)
Michael Hochberg is a semiconductor entrepreneur, Caltech-trained physicist, and network investor with Village Global. He's founder and pres...
From Milking Cows in Kyrgyzstan to Building a $98%-Approval Law Firm | Aizada Marat (Alma)
Aizada Marat is co-founder and CEO of Alma, an immigration law firm that combines the expertise of seasoned attorneys with AI to streamline...
Building the Company Behind 1 Million Therapy Visits a Month | Jake Cooper (Grow Therapy)
JakeCooper is co-founder and CEO of Grow Therapy, a technology platform that helps mental health providers launch and scale independent, ins...
The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)
Paul Eremenko is co-founder and CEO of P-1 AI, the company building Archie, an AI mechanical and electrical engineer that works alongside hu...
How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)
Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, which he started in 2021 to help companies detect and defend against software supply c...
Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)
Jeff Cobourn leads finance, business operations, and strategy at Gusto, where he's spent nearly nine years building out the company's financ...
Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)
Sherwood Callaway is the founder and CEO of Sazabi, an AI-native observability platform, and a repeat YC founder. He previously worked as an...
Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)
Moe Katib is the founder and CEO of One (withone.ai), an enterprise-level infrastructure platform that gives AI agents authenticated, reliab...
Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America — Alex Jekowsky
Alex Jekowsky is the co-founder and CEO of Cents, the all-in-one software, hardware, and payments platform for the laundry industry. A Forbe...
LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman
In this episode of the Village Global Podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Village Global Chairman Reid Hoffman and host Ben Casnocha live on...
Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong — Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton
Somrat Niyogi sits down with two of the most experienced comms operators in tech: Kelly Boynton, Head of Communications at Gusto, and Paul L...
Why Your Next Executive Assistant Will Be an AI — Deon Nicholas (Espa.ai)
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...
Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)
Jake Saper is General Partner at Emergence Capital, the firm that was the first institutional investor in Zoom and an early backer of Salesf...
Recall Sessions: Building a $1.1B Category That Didn't Exist | Nick Mehta (Gainsight)
Nick Mehta is the former CEO of Gainsight, the platform that helps companies drive durable growth through customer-led and product-led strat...
Worldbuilders: Building Digital Minds and Why Humans Still Matter | Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi)
Dara Ladjevardian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delphi, a platform that lets you create a digital version of your mind — an interactive, alwa...