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Village Global Podcast
by Village Global · English
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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Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)Andre Charoo (Maple VC) explains a 0-1-2 framework for evaluating founders as builders (create 0→1), inventors (dream/ideate and prototype the “zero”), and operators (scale 1→2).24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)WhisperFlow’s shift from a “silent speech” wearable voice AI hardware prototype to a software-first voice dictation product, plus how they measure accuracy, market it, and scale the team efficiently.3 Sep 2026 · 31 min
Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & InvestorJade Q. Wang compares AI’s current moment to the invention of the camera, arguing that new realism tools don’t destroy art; they shift what artists do.27 Aug 2026 · 58 min
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Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)Andre Charoo (Maple VC) explains a 0-1-2 framework for evaluating founders as builders (create 0→1), inventors (dream/ideate and prototype the “zero”), and operators (scale 1→2).24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 27 min · 32 chapters
Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)WhisperFlow’s shift from a “silent speech” wearable voice AI hardware prototype to a software-first voice dictation product, plus how they measure accuracy, market it, and scale the team efficiently.3 Sep 2026 · 31 min · 14 chapters
Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & InvestorJade Q. Wang compares AI’s current moment to the invention of the camera, arguing that new realism tools don’t destroy art; they shift what artists do.27 Aug 2026 · 58 min · 31 chapters
What It Actually Takes to Get a Venture Capitalist to Say Yes | Max Kilberg (Village Global) & Michael Hochberg (Periplous)How to get VCs to say yes, and what’s changing in venture (fund bifurcation, compressed “seed” behavior, AI moats, IP, fundraising determinism, and AI/robotics infrastructure/insurance).20 Aug 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 33 chapters
From Milking Cows in Kyrgyzstan to Building a $98%-Approval Law Firm | Aizada Marat (Alma)Immigration law transformed by an AI-first law firm, Alma, built to deliver faster, more consistent approvals and transparency than traditional fragmented, flat-fee immigration practices.13 Aug 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 25 chapters
Building the Company Behind 1 Million Therapy Visits a Month | Jake Cooper (Grow Therapy)Grow Therapy’s founding and scaling story; how it built an end-to-end mental health marketplace (patients, providers, payers) and how AI fits in therapy without replacing humans.6 Aug 2026 · 46 min · 21 chapters
The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)P1 AI’s “Archie” as an AI mechanical/electrical engineer for industrial design work, focused on engineering change orders and tool orchestration; avoiding pilots and proving ROI in production;…29 Jul 2026 · 39 min · 19 chapters
How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)Supply-chain attacks in open source—how attackers compromise maintainers via social engineering and then inject malware/backdoors into widely used packages; why AI coding agents increase exposure;…23 Jul 2026 · 50 min · 20 chapters
Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)Finance teams replacing Excel/BI dashboards with Claude Code-style “agentic” workflows that write code, connect to data warehouses, and generate board/investor materials via pull requests and…16 Jul 2026 · 50 min · 22 chapters
Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi) argues that modern observability should be “less is more”: fewer UI modules, no dashboards, and no separate metrics/traces instrumentation.9 Jul 2026 · 1 h 35 min · 37 chapters
Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)Why AI agents can’t be trusted yet, and what “trust” requires for adoption (deterministic actions, human-in-the-loop, vetted knowledge, and agent behavior that balances autonomy vs confirmation).11 Jun 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 23 chapters
Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America | Alex JekowskyHow Sense (the “operating system” for laundromats) built software and hardware to digitize payments and enable delivery integrations, then scaled go-to-market in a traditionally low-tech,…21 May 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 24 chapters
LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid HoffmanThe “bull case” that AI agents will increase the value of many SaaS categories, while some will lose value; plus why enterprise AI adoption is slower than Valley expectations and how agents change…20 May 2026 · 58 min · 26 chapters
Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong — Paul Loeffler & Kelly BoyntonHow founders should craft and distribute a differentiated launch story, what PR agencies actually provide, and how to evaluate earned media vs paid/owned channels.14 May 2026 · 52 min · 25 chapters
Why Your Next Executive Assistant Will Be an AI — Deon Nicholas (Espa.ai)Deon Nicholas explains agentic AI’s shift from answering questions to taking actions, then applies that idea to his new consumer product, ESPA—an AI executive assistant that schedules, drafts and…7 May 2026 · 41 min · 19 chapters
Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)Why most SaaS companies won’t survive the AI era, and what it takes to shift from selling software tools to selling AI-driven outcomes via “AI Native Services” (AINS).23 Apr 2026 · 1 h 9 min · 22 chapters
Recall Sessions: Building a $1.1B Category That Didn't Exist | Nick Mehta (Gainsight)How Nick Mehta helped build Gainsight and create the customer success category from scratch—covering go-to-market for a market that didn’t exist, early customer acquisition, community-led growth, and…9 Apr 2026 · 42 min · 19 chapters
Worldbuilders: Building Digital Minds and Why Humans Still Matter | Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi)Delphi (Dara Ladjevardian’s company) builds “interactive digital minds” that let people represent themselves and share knowledge at scale, aiming to preserve human connection and trust in an AI era.3 Apr 2026 · 37 min · 20 chapters
Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick ThompsonFounders Patrick Thompson (Clarify) and Doug Camplejohn (Coffee) argue the CRM category is ripe for disruption by AI-native architectures (MCP, agentic systems) that require a unified “data/context…26 Mar 2026 · 55 min · 25 chapters
Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet SinghWorldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh18 Mar 2026 · 13 min · 4 chapters
Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)13 Mar 2026 · 43 min · 25 chapters
Recall Sessions: How Moveworks Went From First Customer to $2.85B with Bhavin ShahSenior Vice President and General Manager of Moveworks and AI at ServiceNow11 Mar 2026 · 1 h · 26 chapters
Parth Patil on Coding Agents, Building Reid AI, and What It Takes to Operate at the FrontierIn this episode, Parth Patil discusses his journey building Reid Hoffman's AI digital twin, Reid AI, and his insights on the evolution of coding agents in AI technology.5 Mar 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 36 chapters
Recall Sessions: Tomer London on Building Gusto from ZenPayroll to 400,000 CustomersThe Village Global podcast explores the fields of venture capital and technology through interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, and tech industry leaders.3 Mar 2026 · 38 min · 19 chapters