Village Global Podcast

Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman, Somrat Niyogi
brett@villageglobal.vc (+1 verified host & producer email)

Booking Overview

Village Global Podcast is a venture capital and tech show that highlights practical founder and communications lessons through conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders. For PR pros, it’s a high-signal platform where guests with credible tech/business traction can share go-to-market, leadership, and narrative-building insights.

Metrics

Episodes: 697

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 6.1k subscribers

30s Ad: 73 - 90, 60s Ad: 87 - 104

Contact Form

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Host

Ben Casnocha - Co-host of the Village Global Podcast. Operates in the venture/founder ecosystem and helps guide founder-facing conversations with prominent investors and tech leaders.

Reid Hoffman - Village Global Chairman. Well-known venture capitalist and startup builder; often joins live/onsite episodes discussing SaaS/AI and founder learnings.

Somrat Niyogi - Host/interviewer for the “Recall Sessions” episodes featuring deep dives with operators and comms leaders from leading tech companies.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior operators or venture/tech leaders: founders/CEOs with proven traction (funding, scale, enterprise adoption) and/or comms/brand leaders from major tech companies; in some cases, well-known public investors and executives.
Required Achievements:  
Forbes/industry recognition (e.g., 30 Under 30), Raised venture rounds and scaled products to large customer bases, Executive roles (CEO, Chairman, Head of Communications, SVP Comms/Brand) at high-profile tech companies, Track record of building go-to-market and narrative frameworks that earned media/market attention

Recent Guest Discussions

Alex Jekowsky - Founder Origin Story; Go-to-market; Pricing; Distributor Strategy; Acquisition Impact; Hiring; Agentic AI For SMB Operators

Reid Hoffman - Co-led Live Discussion On Agents And Saas; Founder Strategy Themes (note: Also Listed As A Host)

Aaron Levie - Agents For Saas; Startup Strategy; Lessons From Building Box For 20 Years; Leveling Up As A Founder

Paul Loeffler - Founder Pr/launch Mistakes; Story Framing Around Value; Why Reporters Cover Trends; Stealth Guidance; Comms Playbook

Kelly Boynton - Founder Launch/pr Mistakes; When Agencies Are Worth It; Comms Playbook For Breaking Through Noise

Recent Topics

Venture Capital, Startups, Technology, Go To Market, Communications, Pr, Leadership, Founders, Saas, Payments

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Village Global Podcast
:

Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America — Alex Jekowsky

May 21, 2026

Alex Jekowsky is the co-founder and CEO of Cents, the all-in-one software, hardware, and payments platform for the laundry industry. A Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, he sold his first company at 23, and last month closed a $140 million Series C. Cents now powers more than 1 in 6 laundromats in the country and processes over $1 billion in payments a year.Somrat Niyogi sits down with Alex to go from the very beginning: the aha moment that led him to laundromats, how he got his first customers th...

LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman

May 20, 2026

In this episode of the Village Global Podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Village Global Chairman Reid Hoffman and host Ben Casnocha live on stage at a Village Global event. They get into what agents actually do to SaaS, where startups should go on offense, and what twenty years of building Box has taught Aaron about leveling up as a founder.Thanks for listening. If you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.Check us out on the web at ⁠www.villageglobal.com⁠ or ...

Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong — Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton

May 14, 2026

Somrat Niyogi sits down with two of the most experienced comms operators in tech: Kelly Boynton, Head of Communications at Gusto, and Paul Loeffler, former SVP of Communications and Brand at BILL.Kelly spent 15 years across agency and in-house roles before Gusto, including at Facebook, Instagram, Intuit, Navan, and DocuSign. Before BILL, Paul led integrated communications at Gusto and was at Atlassian pre-IPO, helping scale it as a public company.They cover what founders get wrong about launc...

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