Village Global Podcast

Anne Dwane, Amrit Rao, Max Kilberg, Ben Casnocha

Booking Overview

An interview-led venture capital and technology show featuring entrepreneurs, investors, and technology leaders discussing company building, fundraising, artificial intelligence, and emerging markets. Credible pitches include startup founders and CEOs with meaningful traction, venture investors, deep-tech specialists, and experienced technology operators; booking difficulty is high because the show favors accomplished guests with strong founder or investing credentials and access to the Village Global network.

Metrics

Episodes: 709

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 6.7k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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brett@villageglobal.vc

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Host

Anne Dwane - Co-founder and partner at Village Global, focused on venture investing and the technology startup ecosystem.

Amrit Rao - General Partner at Village Global, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies and founders.

Max Kilberg - Investment Partner at Village Global, working with technology founders and evaluating early-stage venture opportunities.

Ben Casnocha - Co-founder and partner at Village Global, entrepreneur, investor, and author with experience building and advising technology companies.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Founders and CEOs of technology companies with substantial traction, venture capital investors, deep-tech entrepreneurs, and experienced technology operators with distinctive insights into company building or emerging markets.

Required Achievements:

Founded or scaled a technology startup, Raised significant venture capital or built an investment track record, Developed deep technical or industry expertise, Achieved notable revenue, customer, product, or market growth, Built companies or products in artificial intelligence, software, hardware, or other emerging technologies

Recent Guest Discussions

Jaisal Kothari - Early-stage Company Building, Software Engineering, Voice AI, And The Development Of Wispr Flow.

Tanay Kothari - Voice AI, Startup Defensibility, Product Development, Growth Marketing, Onboarding, And Scaling Small Teams.

Jade Q. Wang - Artificial Intelligence And Art, Ai-native Poetry, Creative Collaboration With Language Models, And Angel Investing.

Michael Hochberg - Venture Capital, Fundraising, Deep-tech Companies, Defensibility, Artificial Intelligence Economics, Robotics, And Software Markets.

Aizada Marat - Legal Technology, Immigration Services, Artificial Intelligence In Legal Work, Company Pivots, And Founder Leadership.

Recent Topics

Business, Venture Capital, Artificial Intelligence, Startup Funding, Deep Tech

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Village Global Podcast

Zynga's Founder on Failure, Founder Mode, and What AI Still Can't Do | Mark Pincus (Zynga)

October 08, 2026

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 Mark at a Village Global Luminary Gathering to dig into the core ideas of Mark's book. Mark's central claim is that your instincts are probably right more often than you kn...

Why the Hearing Aid Industry Stopped Innovating, and How Legato Changed That |Mehul Trivedi, Legato

October 01, 2026

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 collaboration on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.Amrit Rao sits down with Mehul to trace his path from a childhood built around music and engineering at Stanford to building hear...

Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)

September 24, 2026

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 Global, sits down with Andre to unpack the framework he's developed for evaluating founders: builders, inventors, and operators, and how he uses it to make sense of teams when ...

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