Village Global Podcast

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The Village Global podcast takes you inside the world of venture capital and technology, featuring enlightening interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and tech industry leaders. Learn more at www.villageglobal.vc.

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Village Global Podcast episodes:

04.17.2024
Encore: Cloudflare Co-Founder Michelle Zatlyn’s Advice on Hiring, Fundraising, Scaling, and more
Michelle Zatlyn (@zatlyn), co-founder, president, and COO of Cloudflare, joined Village Global co-founder and partner Ben Casnocha for a masterclass with our founders in late 2020. They discussed: - The origin story of Cloudflare, including how the co-founders met, and how Michelle...
04.05.2024
Lessons from the Early Days at Uber and Advice for Founders with Kevin Novak
We're excited to launch a new EIR program for data science founders in partnership with Rackhouse Ventures, founded by Kevin Novak. Learn more about the program: https://www.villageglobal.vc/rackhouse-village-global-eir-programKevin Novak (@novakkm), an early Uber employee, was instrumental in developing their data science...
03.15.2024
Encore Episode: John Donahoe’s Lessons on Leadership and Being a Better CEO
This encore episode is a recording of a special masterclass roundtable session for our founders with John Donahoe. John is CEO of Nike and was previously CEO of ServiceNow and eBay. He is known as one of the most inspirational...
03.01.2024
Identifying 275M Unreported Genetic Variations To Improve Healthcare with NIH All of Us Program CTO Chris Lunt
Chris Lunt is a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience building web services and data platforms. He is in his seventh year as the CTO for the NIH's All of Us Research Program. He joined the NIH...
02.16.2024
Building Hardware Companies and Choosing Co-Founders with Michael Hochberg
Michael Hochberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hochberg/) is a physicist and a founder of four successful startup companies in semiconductors and telecommunications, including Luxtera, acquired by Cisco in 2019, and Elenion, acquired by Nokia in 2020. He won the highest awards for young scientists...
02.09.2024
Secondaries with Matt Pellini of Hamilton Lane
Matt Pellini, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane, joins Olga Serhiyevich on this episode. Highlights:- Matt says the secondaries market has grown over 5x from 15 years ago to now.- Selling in the secondary market used to be a sign of...
02.02.2024
Lessons Learned From Running CalSTRS with Chris Ailman
Christopher Ailman (@CJAtheCIO), Chief Investment Officer at CalSTRS, joins Olga Serhiyevich on this episode. Highlights: - CalSTRS, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, was created in 1913 and is actually older than Social Security. It has over 400 members who...
01.26.2024
Encore: Mark Pincus on Product Management, Raising Capital, and Building Zynga
This encore episode is a recording of a special event where Mark Pincus (@markpinc) was interviewed by Ben Casnocha in San Francisco in front of a live audience of portfolio founders, friends of the firm, and LPs.Mark is co-founder and...
01.19.2024
Encore: Bill Gates on Advice For Founders, Mistakes, and Philanthropy
This encore episode is a recording of a special event where Bill Gates was interviewed in San Francisco by Julia Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite. It originally took place in 2018 in front of a live audience of Village Global founders...
01.12.2024
Encore: Jerry Yang on Yahoo!, Early-Stage Investing, and China
Jerry originally joined us on the podcast in 2019. He is co-founder of Yahoo! and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. He was interviewed in front of a live audience in San Francisco by Village Global co-founder and partner, Ben...
01.04.2024
How Superplastic Built a Social Media-Native Character Universe
Paul Budnitz, founder of Superplastic, and Jennifer van Dijk, CEO of Superplastic, join Christina Des Vaux, head of marketing and platform at Village Global, on this episode. Takeaways: Superplastic is a creatively-led company that has managed to maintain its unique...
09.22.2023
Reference Checking and Personality Assessments with Investor Graham Duncan
Graham Duncan (@GrahamDuncanNYC) is a longtime investor and author of a legendary essay on reference checking: https://grahamduncan.blog/whats-going-on-here/ He was interviewed by Village Global co-founder and partner Ben Casnocha (@bencasnocha) during a special masterclass for Village Global founders and friends of...
09.19.2023
Insights on Capital Power Brokers from Hedge Funds to Venture Capital with Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of five books, including most recently The Power Law:...
08.30.2023
LatAm Digital Transformation Report from Atlantico
Julio Vasconcellos (@JulioV), managing partner at Atlantico, and Ana Martins (@martinsg_ana), partner at Atlantico, join Anne Dwane (@adwane), co-founder and partner at Village Global, to discuss Atlantico’s 2023 report on digital transformation in Latin America. Takeaways:- If Latin America was...
08.24.2023
Opportunities in Public Health Investing with Gurdane Bhutani and Zeshan Muhammedi
Gurdane Bhutani and Zeshan Muhammedi are co-founders and GPs at MBX, a VC firm investing in early-stage bio/healthtech companies tackling major public health threats. Prior to that they co-founded healthcare and life-science venture capital firm FundRx, where they championed the...
08.17.2023
The Future of Retail with Lee Hnetinka
Lee Hnetinka, founder and CEO of Future and Darkstore, joins Olga Serhiyevich, Head of Investor Relations at Village Global, on this episode. Lee and his companies are building innovative solutions in retail and e-commerce and have worked with world’s most...
08.10.2023
CIO Series: Wealth Management Platforms, Private Investment Strategies, and the Current (non-Twitter) Macro Outlook with Cameron Dawson
Cameron Dawson, Chief Investment Officer at NewEdge Wealth, joins Olga Serhiyevich, Head of Investor Relations, on this episode. Prior to joining NewEdge Wealth, Cameron was the Chief Market Strategist at Fieldpoint Private Securities and a Senior Equity Analyst at Bank...
08.03.2023
Opportunities at the intersection of software and hardware in national development projects with Prescott Watson
Prescott Watson (@prescottwatson) joins Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi), head of investor relations at Village Global, on this episode. Prescott is co-founder of Port Power, a software platform that aims to de-risk commercial fleets’ adoption of electric vehicles by ensuring their charging...
06.15.2023
Mark Cuban on Disrupting Healthcare, Trends in AI, and Randomness
Mark Cuban (@mcuban) joins Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi), head of investor relations at Village Global, on this episode. Takeaways:- In the US healthcare system the interests of patients, providers, and payers are not aligned. This drives many of the problems in...
06.01.2023
Disrupting VC Benchmarking and Closing The LP-GP Information Gap with Eric Woo and Spencer Tyson
Eric Woo (@ericjwoo), co-founder and CEO of Revere, and Spencer Tyson (@SpencerGTyson), Head of Investment Ratings at Revere, join Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi), Head of Investor Relations at Village Global. Revere has pioneered the world’s first rating system for venture capital...
05.18.2023
Investing Across Cycles, Tech Transformation, and Partnering Effectively with Entrepreneurs with Jon Korngold
Jon Korngold joins Olga Serhiyevich, Head of Investor Relations, on this episode. Jon is the Global Head of Blackstone Growth (BXG) and Co-Head of Technology Investing at Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone, Jon was Head of General Atlantic’s Global Financial...
05.09.2023
Tokenizing Film Finance with Marc Iserlis
Marc Iserlis is a film/TV producer and documentary filmmaker joins Village Global's Head of Investor Relations Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi). Marc is currently building tokenized film financing at Republic, an alternative fundraising platform.Takeaways:- Marc’s ambition is at Republic is to allow...
04.18.2023
The Startup of You: Navigating Status Dynamics, Name Dropping, and Lessons on Hustle
Ben Casnocha (@bencasnocha) and Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) are co-authors of The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. In the book, they look at the best of Silicon Valley startups and derive entrepreneurial...
04.14.2023
The Startup of You: How To Reference Check, Taking Smart Risks, and Lessons from Airbnb
Ben Casnocha (@bencasnocha) and Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) are co-authors of The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. In the book, they look at the best of Silicon Valley startups and derive entrepreneurial...
04.11.2023
The Intersection of Technology and Media with Louise Story
Louise Story (@louisestory) most recently was the Chief News Strategist and Chief Product & Technology Officer at The Wall Street Journal. Louise also spent more than a decade at the New York Times. She joins Olga Serhiyevich on this episode...
03.16.2023
Creating a Talent Marketplace with David Boehmer
David Boehmer (@DavBoehmer) speaks to Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi) about the talent intermediation industry, the evolution of business models in the sector, and creating a talent marketplace at Banff.Takeaways:- Chance often has a significant impact on a person’s career but David...
02.07.2023
Talent Identification, Hierarchies, and Clustering with Rohit Krishnan
Rohit Krishnan (@krishnanrohit), venture capitalist and author of the blog Strange Loop Cannon, joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Many of the people at the top of their fields today say they would never get hired if they were just...
01.26.2023
Thematic investing in fertility and semiconductor sectors at Recharge, technonationalism, and lessons from David Swensen with Lorin Gu
Lorin Gu, founding partner of Recharge Capital, joins Olga Serhiyevich, Head of Investor Relations at Village Global to discuss:- Why Recharge structures its investing thematically, rather than by asset class.- The three themes that they believe have multi-decade headwinds behind...
01.12.2023
Alex Chalunkal on Structured Equity and The Current Investing Environment
Alex Chalunkal is Chief Investment Officer at a family office where he manages a $1B+ portfolio focused on impact, venture, and climate tech investing. He was interviewed by Olga Serhiyevich, Head of Investor Relations at Village Global. Takeaways: -...
12.13.2022
Ian Bremmer on The Intersection of Geopolitics and Technology
Ian Bremmer (@ianbremmer), president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media joins Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi), Head of Investor Relations at Village Global for a conversation about global geopolitical trends and their impact on technology. Takeaways:- Ian has been in...
11.10.2022
The Future of the Space Economy with Mo Islam
Mo Islam (@itsmoislam), co-founder of Payload Space, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- There is no doubt that we are in the early stages of the space economy, Mo says.- The cost to go to Mars...
11.03.2022
Dual Use Tech with Ari Schuler and Andrea Garrity
Ari Schuler, CEO of goTenna, and Andrea Garrity, Chief Growth Officer of goTenna, join Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon join us on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:- goTenna was founded after Hurricane Sandy when a brother and sister didn’t know...
10.26.2022
Unbundling K-12 Education with Joe Connor of Odyssey
Joe Connor (@josephjconnor), founder of Odyssey (@WithOdyssey_), joins Anne Dwane and Lucas Bagno on this episode. Takeaways:- ACT test scores are at the lowest level in 30 years. 42% of students met none of the college readiness benchmarks.- District schools...
10.24.2022
Spacecraft Manufacturing with Apex’s Ian Cinnamon and Max Benassi
Ian Cinnamon (@iancinnamon), co-founder and CEO of Apex Space, and Max Benassi (@mxbenassi), co-founder and CTO, join Lucas Bagno on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:- The cost per kilogram to get things into space has gone down dramatically over the...
10.20.2022
A Deep Dive on SBIRs with Ben Van Roo
Ben Van Roo (@DavidNorthStar), co-founder and CEO of Yurts AI, joins Lucas Bagno on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:- The Small Business Innovation Research program was originally developed as a grant program to allow small companies do innovative research. The...
10.18.2022
Deep Nishar’s Lessons From Building Products at Google and LinkedIn
Deep Nishar (@deepnishar), Managing Director at General Catalyst and formerly of LinkedIn and Google, joins Anne Dwane on this episode. Takeaways:- The best product hires have the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of...
10.06.2022
Reimagining The Kill Chain with Christian Brose
Christian Brose (@cdbrose), Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril and author of The Kill Chain, joins Lucas Bagno on this episode. Takeaways:- The US military and its procurement system has been built for equipment that is big, heavy, and hard to...
09.29.2022
Restoring Dynamism in a Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT), New York Times columnist and author of The Decadent Society, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- Since the moon landing, we have entered a period of stagnation. Confidence and optimism have declined and...
09.27.2022
Data-Driven Insights on Venture Capital with Steve Kim
Steve Kim (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenrkim/), Partner and head of Investment Strategy at Verdis, a 9-generation single family office, joins Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi), Head of Investor Relations at Village Global, on this episode. Takeaways: Early stage venture is a power law asset class where the returns of...
09.22.2022
Innovating in National Security with Raj Shah
Raj Shah, Managing Partner at Shield Capital, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- Raj and Shield don’t care whether a founding team has experience selling to government, because the firm can help with that. They evaluate...
09.20.2022
The State of Digital Transformation in Latin America in 2022
Julio Vasconcellos and Ana Martins, partners at Atlantico, join Anne Dwane and Lucas Bagno on this episode to discuss Atlantico's Latin America Digital Transformation Report 2022. Takeaways:- In the rest of the world, digital adoption has reverted to the pre-pandemic...
09.15.2022
Mike Brown on How To Ensure The US Leads Defense Innovation
Mike Brown, former director of the Defense Innovation Unit, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- It can easily take 10-20 years for tech to make its way into the Department of Defense. The Defense Innovation Unit...
09.01.2022
Investing in Defense with Alex Moore
Alex Moore (@AustinGiraffe), investor at 8VC and board member at Palantir, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:- Alex was one of the original team members at Palantir. He says that helping build the company...
08.30.2022
Web 3 Series: Bringing Smart Contracts to Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali
Muneeb Ali (@muneeb), co-founder of Stacks, joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Muneeb says that Bitcoin is winning as money, and that he wants to make that capital productive. He’s "bringing smart contracts to where the money is."- Bitcoin’s architecture...
08.23.2022
Web 3 Series: Building a Decentralized Social Network with Dan Romero of Farcaster
Dan Romero (@dwr) of Farcaster joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Dan says that his first love was information. He loved RSS and the goal with Farcaster is to improve RSS enough so that it can compete with Twitter.- He...
08.16.2022
Web 3 Series: How Macro will Impact Crypto with Travis Kling
Travis Kling (@travis_kling) of Ikigai Asset Management joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Bitcoin’s value proposition is the most challenged in the five years that Travis has been paying attention to it. It has underperformed in the market downturn and...
08.11.2022
The Rare Earths Threat with Nathan Picarsic
Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways: - There are 17 rare earth metals that are of immense strategic importance. They are used in a vast array of everyday...
08.09.2022
Web 3 Series: The Transformative Power of Smart Contracts with Joel Monegro
Joel Monegro (@jmonegro), partner at Placeholder, joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Every financial asset is a contract between two or more people. The world economy is basically a set of contracts on a ledger.- A smart contract is like...
08.04.2022
Steve Blank on Rebuilding the Department of Defense
Steve Blank (@sgblank), creator of Hacking For Defense and author of 4 Steps To The Epiphany, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:- The secret history of Silicon Valley is that it emerged from the...
08.02.2022
Antonio Garcia-Martinez on Why Ads are an Inevitable Part of Web 3
Antonio Garcia-Martinez (@antoniogm), author of The Pull Request, joins Erik Torenberg and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- The first version of ads on the web, banner ads, looked like ads in the newspaper, because often the new version of...

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Village Global Podcast episodes:

Encore: Cloudflare Co-Founder Michelle Zatlyn’s Advice on Hiring, Fundraising, Scaling, and more

Lessons from the Early Days at Uber and Advice for Founders with Kevin Novak

Encore Episode: John Donahoe’s Lessons on Leadership and Being a Better CEO

Identifying 275M Unreported Genetic Variations To Improve Healthcare with NIH All of Us Program CTO Chris Lunt

Building Hardware Companies and Choosing Co-Founders with Michael Hochberg

Secondaries with Matt Pellini of Hamilton Lane

Lessons Learned From Running CalSTRS with Chris Ailman

Encore: Mark Pincus on Product Management, Raising Capital, and Building Zynga

Encore: Bill Gates on Advice For Founders, Mistakes, and Philanthropy

Encore: Jerry Yang on Yahoo!, Early-Stage Investing, and China

How Superplastic Built a Social Media-Native Character Universe

Reference Checking and Personality Assessments with Investor Graham Duncan

Insights on Capital Power Brokers from Hedge Funds to Venture Capital with Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law

LatAm Digital Transformation Report from Atlantico

Opportunities in Public Health Investing with Gurdane Bhutani and Zeshan Muhammedi

The Future of Retail with Lee Hnetinka

CIO Series: Wealth Management Platforms, Private Investment Strategies, and the Current (non-Twitter) Macro Outlook with Cameron Dawson

Opportunities at the intersection of software and hardware in national development projects with Prescott Watson

Mark Cuban on Disrupting Healthcare, Trends in AI, and Randomness

Disrupting VC Benchmarking and Closing The LP-GP Information Gap with Eric Woo and Spencer Tyson

Investing Across Cycles, Tech Transformation, and Partnering Effectively with Entrepreneurs with Jon Korngold

Tokenizing Film Finance with Marc Iserlis

The Startup of You: Navigating Status Dynamics, Name Dropping, and Lessons on Hustle

The Startup of You: How To Reference Check, Taking Smart Risks, and Lessons from Airbnb

The Intersection of Technology and Media with Louise Story

Creating a Talent Marketplace with David Boehmer

Talent Identification, Hierarchies, and Clustering with Rohit Krishnan

Thematic investing in fertility and semiconductor sectors at Recharge, technonationalism, and lessons from David Swensen with Lorin Gu

Alex Chalunkal on Structured Equity and The Current Investing Environment

Ian Bremmer on The Intersection of Geopolitics and Technology

The Future of the Space Economy with Mo Islam

Dual Use Tech with Ari Schuler and Andrea Garrity

Unbundling K-12 Education with Joe Connor of Odyssey

Spacecraft Manufacturing with Apex’s Ian Cinnamon and Max Benassi

A Deep Dive on SBIRs with Ben Van Roo

Deep Nishar’s Lessons From Building Products at Google and LinkedIn

Reimagining The Kill Chain with Christian Brose

Restoring Dynamism in a Decadent Society with Ross Douthat

Data-Driven Insights on Venture Capital with Steve Kim

Innovating in National Security with Raj Shah

The State of Digital Transformation in Latin America in 2022

Mike Brown on How To Ensure The US Leads Defense Innovation

Investing in Defense with Alex Moore

Web 3 Series: Bringing Smart Contracts to Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali

Web 3 Series: Building a Decentralized Social Network with Dan Romero of Farcaster

Web 3 Series: How Macro will Impact Crypto with Travis Kling

The Rare Earths Threat with Nathan Picarsic

Web 3 Series: The Transformative Power of Smart Contracts with Joel Monegro

Steve Blank on Rebuilding the Department of Defense

Antonio Garcia-Martinez on Why Ads are an Inevitable Part of Web 3