Guillermo Rauch is founder and CEO of Vercel, a company that provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. He was interviewed by Ben Casnocha, co-founder and general partner at Village Global, an early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the world’s most successful entrep…

Michael Balaoing, founder of Candlelion, joins Village Global co-founder and partner Ben Casnocha on this episode to discuss: - The importance of the acronym WTF (what’s the feeling?) when you’re giving a presentation. - The four roles that you take on as a speaker: captain, pilot, guide, and game show host. - The five questions to ask when seeking…

Brad Feld (@bfeld), VC at Foundry Group and co-author with Dave Jilk of The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche, joined Village Global co-founder and partner Ben Casnocha to discuss: - Common misconceptions about Nietzsche and why being misunderstood makes him an especially interesting philosopher. - What Nietzsche can teach entrepreneurs deciding whet…

Thejo Kote (@thejo) talks to Village partner Ben Casnocha. Thejo is a two-time founder and CEO. His current company, Airbase, is a spend management platform serving companies with 100 and 5,000 employees like Coda, 15Five, Front, Marqueta, CaptivateIQ, Abnormal, and more. Airbase has raised over $200 million, has tens of millions in ARR, and is con…

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 realized that she too could start a company. - Her advice on fundra…

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-program Kevin Novak (@novakkm), an early Uber employee, was instrumental in developing their data science program and was the crea…

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 leaders in Silicon Valley and is a highly sought-after mentor to CEOs including Brian Chesky at Airbnb, Drew Houston at Dro…

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 from GetInsured, where he worked to improve health insurance shopping and enrollment systems. Previously Chris ran VC-backed internet st…

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 in Singapore (NRF Fellowship) and the United States …

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 distress but is no longer. There are many different reasons for doing so and it’s mostly a sign of a manager being…

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 are over 100 years old who are still receiving their pension. - Chris says …

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 Executive Chairman of Zynga, and is an angel investor in Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and other companies. He tal…

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 and friends of the firm. We are honored to count Bill Gates among our luminary LPs whose financial capital and engag…

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 Casnocha. Jerry told stories from the early days of Yahoo! and explained his lessons learned from the experience. He a…

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 identity and artistic integrity while nevertheless running a thriving business. The…

Judith is a Managing Director and Head Equities Quantitative Strategist for Scotiabank’s US Equities Sales and Trading. Prior to Scotiabank, Judith was a VP at Goldman Sachs and Citadel, after starting her career at Morgan Stanley. Judith discusses how market makers leverage data to hedge trading risk. She delves into why market makers increasingly…

Richard is co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Datarade, working with thousands of different data providers and data buyers to make data commerce easy. Datarade operates Data Commerce Cloud™ (DCC) which enables data providers to sync data products instantly to sales channels including Google Cloud Analytics Hub, SAP Datasphere Marketplace, Ala…

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 the firm. Takeaways: - Be aware …

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: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. He joined Olga Serhiyevich, head of investo…

Jeremy is the founder of a new stealth startup in supply chain data infrastructure. Prior to co-founding his current company with Travis May (the founder and CEO of Datavant), Jeremy was the Head of Data Strategy for Walmart Data Ventures. Before Walmart Jeremy held a variety of roles in the data industry, including Global Head of Alternative Data …

David is the co-founder and CEO of Catylex, where he and his team leverage AI to extract data from contracts. Prior to Catylex, David was senior counsel at Bridgewater Associates, Executive Director and Counsel at UBS, and Director and Counsel at Credit Suisse. David started his career as a database developer before jumping into law at Cleary Gottl…

Kirk is one of the most brilliant and intense entrepreneurs in the data industry. He is the co-founder of Carbon Arc, a decision intelligence company. Prior to Carbon Arc, Kirk was the head of proprietary research at Point 72 Asset Management. Earlier in his career Kirk was head of proprietary research at Glenview Capital and an analyst at Tudor In…

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 its own country it would be #3 in the world in terms…

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 firm's build-out of its community-driven investment infrastructure, mo…

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 admired brands like Nike, Adidas and Disney where they enabled same-day and 1-hour delivery f…

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 of America. Takeaways: Cameron says that wealth management firms can provide th…

What’s the cheapest way to lose your mind? Everywhere, all the time, at once. I don’t know how to begin explaining David and Ferdinand. David’s an American and he was born in a Christian mission, at the moment of this recording he really had no clue where the hell he was or how he even got to BOOM, he was only wearing a pair of boxers and he didn’t…

What’s your fuel, and did you ever let it become your poison? Toder comes from Bulgaria, but where is he right now? Why didn’t I ask for his social media? I have no clue! He gave me an Axolotl lighter and it’s my spirit animal, so I naturally became super excited and just decided to record our conversation next to the Alchemy Circle. Maybe that’s w…

What's your best rave memory you wish you had photographed? Inside a secret hobbit hole in the Sacred Fire I met Vishnu (@vishsolo) and we instantly connected through our best memories about Candy Flipping! We talk about Fusion and other festivals, Tristan, Avalon, Astrix, and more. He’s an outstanding party photographer and you should check out hi…

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 infrastructure functions flexibly and reliably. Takeaways: - …

What would it be like if you could hug the whole world at once? TRIP.E_CAST is a non-apologetic podcast where there's no cuts, no jumps, just raw recording of people talking without taboos, pure Gonzo journalism. I met Carolina Baião (@carol.ina.baiao) on 20th of July and she was my ride for BOOM Festival, we met Asger (@where.spirit.meet.matter) h…

This is our second special recap episode of I See Data People! This recap episode summarizes 3 key themes: Data quality is vital to not only making the data usable, but also to trusting the results from models leveraging that data. Failure to handle data quality issues correctly can lead to “fake news” problems, compounding biases and exacerbating …

Scott is the founder and CEO of AltHub, where he helps data providers refine their offering so that investors and corporate data users can make use of the data. Prior to AltHub, Scott was the Managing Director Briarcliff Hall, a sales consultancy. He also ran sales at Roubini Global Economics, was COO of a division of Morningstar, a Managing Direct…

Salam is a Senior Director of product at Similarweb, leading the market research data product which utilizes a combination of user based data and behavioral science. Salam is also a board member of Women in Tech. Prior to Similarweb she led product at Toluna, and previously worked at eBay, Microsoft and Intel.Salam discusses the rise of personalize…

David is the founder and CEO of New Constructs, an investment research company leveraging AI to provide improved equity analysis. In addition to founding New Constructs, David previously ran a long/short equity hedge fund. Prior to New Constructs, David started his career at Credit Suisse, where he pioneered methods for analyzing regulatory disclos…

Stefania is the founder and CEO of Physis Investment where she leverages ESG data and analysis to help investors understand, track, and measure the impact of investments. Prior to Physis, Stefania was an impact fund manager and an advisor to large institutional investors on ESG investing. Stefania discusses use cases for sustainability data and how…

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 the system today and is part of what inspired Mark to get involved in trying to disrup…

Saurabh is the founder and CEO of Taiyo AI and was previously the Director of the Stanford AI Index. Saurabh is also a current Brookings Institution Fellow and fellow at the Bank of International Settlements. Saurabh was previously an economist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.…

Amos is the founder and CEO if Prof of Wall Street and was previously an academic economist studying Neuroeconomics. Amos also served as the chief economist to a hedge fund and spent much of his career applying behavioral economics principles to marketing. Amos discusses how to utilize data to identify and combat cognitive biases in investing. He a…

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 funds. Takeaways: - Venture has changed a lot over the last couple de…

Scott is the founder and CEO of JaxonAI, a rapid prototyping platform that enables users to easily build and iterate upon custom, fully-trained AI models. Prior to Jaxon, Scott was the founder and CEO of Dropfire, Founder and Managing Partner of BigVAR, and Founder and Managing Partner of BigR.io. Scott discusses the evolution of AI model training …

Sarah is the founder and CEO of Sequentum, a low code platform for collecting web data. Prior to founding Sequentum, Sarah spent most of her career as a quality assurance professional, giving her a unique perspective on how to data cleanliness and quality. Sarah discusses how her perspectives on data quality influence how she thinks about scaling w…

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 Services and Healthcare sectors. Takeaways: - The vast reach of Blackstone, as one of …

Jon is the founder and Managing Partner of Anduril Partners. Prior to founding Anduril, Jon was portfolio manager and Chief Data Officer for Fundamental Equities at GSAM. Jon is also a current fellow at FISD. Jon discusses how the asset management community leverages data, and how he is increasingly seeing corporates adopt similar use cases for dat…

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 individuals to join in the success of film product…

This episode summarizes four key themes: What it takes to bring a data product to market How to price data and ways data pricing may soon change Trends in Artificial Intelligence and how it relates to data Predicting the next 5 years of growth in the data industry Our hosts, Omri Shtayer and Evan Schnidman, go into detail on each of these themes, r…

Thomas is the founder of Fc centripetal. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of ETR / Aptiviti. Thomas was a pioneer in the alternative data industry, blazing a path in 2008 into the space. Our discussion with Thomas discusses the process of productizing data, pricing it appropriately and understanding your client’s use case. He explains how poo…

Isabel is the founder and CEO of Arbilex, a data-driven marketplace for litigation finance. She started Arbilex after graduating from Harvard Law School and noticing her statistical background gave her a unique perspective on legal outcomes. Our discussion with Isabel highlights how a data-driven approach to investing in litigation results in outsi…

Dan is the founder and CEO of GravityAI, a marketplace for data science and AI algorithms. Prior to founding GravityAI, Dan was a Head of Product at State Street, and a Senior Product Manager at Boston Consulting Group. Our discussion with Dan revolves around the rapidly evolving toolkit for data science and data engineering work. Dan delves into s…

Mark is the Head of Data Sourcing for Capital Fund Management. Prior to CFM, he was the Communications Director for Exabel, and a Senior Analyst at Stratfor. Mark is also the host of The Alternative Data Podcast. Our discussion with Mark focuses on his unique story about breaking into the data industry, the current state and future of the industry …