Village Global Podcast
676 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsThe 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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Steve Blank on Rebuilding the Department of Defense
August 04, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBSteve 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 government’s desire to develop advanced technology and weapons in universities during World War II. - Stanford became a powerhouse in microwaves and electronics post-WWII. People were encouraged to leave to start companies, which kickstarted Silicon Valley. ...
Antonio Garcia-Martinez on Why Ads are an Inevitable Part of Web 3
August 02, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBAntonio 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 media looks like the last version of media — that’s skeuomorphism. - Apple’s app tracking transparency is breaking the model for Facebook and Snap. - Antonio says there won’t be a media ecosystem in Web 3 without attribution. - The advent of b...
Web 3 Series: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity to Reshape Money with Avichal Garg
July 26, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBAvichal Garg (@avichal), founder of Electric Capital, joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways: - Downturns impact large companies much more than founders and early stage investors because the companies are so small relative to their total addressable market. - Managing your own psychology in a downturn is the most important skill for a founder in these times. - Crypto is like a platypus — it has properties of growth tech, a store of value, and commodities. - People in the US sometimes look ...
Web3 Series: The Next Chapter for DAOs, Gaming, and Crypto Communities with Jeff Morris Jr.
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBJeff Morris Jr. (@jmj), investor at Chapter One, joins Erik Torenberg and co-host Ian Cinnamon. Takeaways: - Jeff realized the power of subscriptions during his time at Tinder. He says that digital goods are an even better version of subscriptions. - Web3 is almost entirely missing mobile usability. - Crypto apps could add a reputation layer to existing Web2 use cases, like dating apps. - People are still using Web 2.0 community products to create communities for Web3. - Web3 games need ...
Web3 Series: How Music Will Drive Web3 with Cooper Turley
July 14, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBCooper Turley (@Cooopahtroopa) joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways: - Cooper believes that in 5-10 years music streaming will all be happening on chain. - Cooper cares much more about where culture is happening and where people are spending their time than about underlying technology. - DAOs need to prove that they can help people ship products better than private groups. They may not replace Microsoft but they can mobilize people around smaller niche categories. - Web 1 was the “read” ...
Our Hypersonic Future with Hermeus’ AJ Piplica
July 12, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBAJ Piplica (@AJ_Piplica), founder and CEO of Hermeus, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways: - Every time there has been an acceleration in the speed of transportation in history, high GDP growth has followed. - A switch to hypersonic transportation would unlock $4T in growth. - In the future the key differentiator in air travel will be speed, rather than comfort. - It’s currently extremely expensive to do flight testing at hypersonic speeds — $5-10M for only a few...
Building a World-Changing Labor Marketplace with Mike Shebat of Traba
July 07, 2022 20:53 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBMike Shebat (@mike_sheb), co-founder and CEO of Traba, joins Erik Torenberg and Lucas Bagno on this episode. Takeaways: - There is a huge problem with meeting demand for workers at warehouses and fulfilment centres. There are 75% more jobs in those fields after the pandemic. - Mike worked in warehousing and helped scale UberEats so has strong founder-market fit. Traba’s mission of connecting people to work is very meaningful to him. - Mike met his co-founder Akshay through the On Deck Fell...
SBIRs, PORs, and Lobbyists with Peter Newell
July 05, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBPeter Newell (@PeterANewell), CEO of BMNT, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways: - Peter was “handed the Ferrari of skunkworks” when he came to be in charge of the Rapid Equipping Force. It was a program that handled over a billion dollars to deploy new technologies. - He became more of an entrepreneur after his time at the REF and that led to starting BMNT. - Often times procurement in the US military is HQ-centric and product-centric and does not tak...
Web3 Series: JD Ross and 3LAU on How Royal is Transforming The Artist-Fan Relationship
July 01, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBJD Ross (@justindross) and Justin Blau (@3LAU), co-founders of Royal, join Erik Torenberg and co-host Ian Cinnamon for this episode of our web3 series. Takeaways: - Royal stems from their vision to invest in talent early on. - Streaming increased by 60-70x in about 5 years from 2015 on. - The barrier to entry for artists is much lower — they no longer need a studio, they just need a laptop. - Royal is trying to enable the fan-artist relationship to be more of a partnership. - When fans o...
Erik Torenberg on How Startups Can Help Save The World
June 29, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBErik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg), co-founder and general partner at Village Global and co-founder and co-CEO of On Deck join Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways: - Startups are the most effective organizations for solving our biggest problems. - Startups disproportionately contribute to economic growth. - Governments and startups need to work together, not against each other. - China has the GDP per capita of Mexico but they have power because of how big th...
Web3 Series: The State of Crypto in 2022 with Tushar Jain
June 23, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBTushar Jain (@TusharJain_), co-founder and managing partner of Multicoin Capital, joins Erik on this episode to discuss: - The history of crypto over the last several years and the various moments that different technologies like Bitcoin, NFTs, tokens, and others have had. - What the world looks like if the predictions for crypto’s impact comes true. - Why Tushar thinks that Ethereum has gone past the point of diminishing returns to decentralization. - Why it’s so hard to predict which ch...
The Future Industrial Network with Hondo Geurts
June 21, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBJames “Hondo” Geurts, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways: - What kept Hondo up at night was that there was a good idea out there that wasn’t passed on to him and thus wasn’t used on the battlefield. - A society can’t be secure without prosperity and can’t have prosperity without security. - The challenge for startups working with government is that the public is a fickle venture cap...
Web3 Series: Haseeb Qureshi on Navigating The Bear Market and The Next Chapter for Crypto
June 16, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBHaseeb Qureshi (@hosseeb), managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, joins Erik for an episode of our Web3 series. Takeaways: - This bear market is driven by macro factors rather than endogenous ones. - It turns out crypto is in fact correlated with other assets, largely because in 2020 institutions started buying crypto. - Projects searching for yield in a yield-starved environment drove growth in crypto. That may change with rising interest rates. - Adoption will drive the next chapter of...
Noah Smith's Deep Dive on the Chinese Economy
June 14, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MB- The narrative that China can do no wrong and why Noah says it is out of date at this point. - The long-term headwinds that China is facing, including demographic changes, resource limitations, and real estate challenges. - Why America should raise tariffs on anything made in China where it would be strategically important for those goods to be made somewhere else. - The state of real estate in China, including the fact that China’s economy is 30% real estate (double the percentage in the...
Web3 Series: Kyle Samani on Proof of Physical Work, Ethereum, and NFTs
June 09, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBKyle Samani (@kylesamani), co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, joins Erik on this episode to discuss: - How crypto enables people to coordinate and set up things in the physical world, as with the Helium project. - The shift in Ethereum over the last 24 months and why he says they need to re-think their product development process and shift away from its prior ideological underpinnings to get to a billion users. - Why he thinks that Ethereum is no longer dominant and is l...
Web3 Series: Kyle Samani on ETH Bearishness, DeFi, and Web3 Social
June 09, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBKyle Samani (@kylesamani), co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, joins Erik on this episode to discuss: - How crypto enables people to coordinate and set up things in the physical world, as with the Helium project. - The shift in Ethereum over the last 24 months and why he says they need to re-think their product development process and shift away from its prior ideological underpinnings to get to a billion users. - Why he thinks that Ethereum is no longer dominant and is l...
Jacob Helberg on China’s Global Influence
June 07, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBJacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), foreign policy expert and author of The Wires of War, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - Why he says peace through trade was the biggest foreign policy miscalculation in US history. - How US companies have approached operating in China and why Jacob would advise them to proactively work to decouple themselves from the Chinese market. - Why Jacob would prefer that American laws change to restrict Chinese investments in US companies. - Why the Be...
Tyler Cowen on Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBTyler Cowen (@tylercowen) is an economist, professor, and best-selling author. His latest book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, written with co-author Daniel Gross, is available now. Tyler discusses how to discover undervalued talent, the importance of stamina, the best interview questions, peer ratings, late bloomers, and more. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on ...
Back to the Basics: Building in a Downturn with Geoff Lewis
June 02, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 51.2 MBGeoff Lewis (@GeoffLewisOrg), founder at Bedrock, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - His thoughts on the markets and the advice he has for founders operating in a market like this one. - What is driving financial nihilism and how it has changed society. - Why he’s only investing in founders where their company is their life’s work. - Bedrock’s investments in hardware and companies making things in the physical world. - The perils of politics replacing religion as our mechan...
Bilal Zuberi on Unifying America
May 26, 2022 19:48 - 53 minutes - 61.5 MBBilal Zuberi (@bznotes), partner at Lux Capital, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - Bilal’s investing thesis of finding companies building solutions to interesting problems that impact a lot of people. - Why he’s investing in space and defense companies. - What keeps him up at night and how his investments are working on those areas. - Why he’s optimistic about unifying America. - How to solve the problem of different people having different sets of facts. - Whether there ...
Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst on Responsible Innovation, Un-scaling & Thriving in regulated industries
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHemant Taneja (@htaneja), managing partner at General Catalyst and author of Intended Consequences, joins Anne Dwane and Village Global’s newest partner, Prateek Alsi, to discuss: - What responsible innovation is and how tech can do good in the world using the framework. - How founders should think about responsible innovation at the earliest stages of a company. - The importance of thinking from first principles. - Lessons from the creation process of the companies Hemant has been invol...
Laura Crabtree on Space Software
May 12, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MBLaura Crabtree (@llcrabbie), founder and CEO of Epsilon3, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode to discuss: - What she accomplished during her time at SpaceX and her journey to starting Epsilon3. - Whether the biggest contribution of SpaceX to the industry will be all the amazing people leaving to start their own space companies. - How to get into the space industry if you don’t already have a background in it. - Why a company like Epsilon3 hasn’t been built before. - The i...
The PayPal Story: What can we learn from the journey of Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks, and others?
May 10, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBJimmy Soni (@jimmyasoni), author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, joins Ben Casnocha on this episode to discuss: - How diversity and variety of backgrounds and opinions helped PayPal become successful. - The fact that PayPal’s leading product was not solving a problem that they had set out to solve, but rather a problem they discovered along the way. - The importance of sitting with your customers and really understanding their perspecti...
Joshua Steinman on Unrestricted Warfare
May 03, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBJoshua Steinman (@JoshuaSteinman), founder and CEO of Galvanick, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - The history of cybersecurity at big industrial companies and how he is building “Splunk for industrial systems” to solve that problem. - His time at the National Security Council, what motivated him to work in government, and his work creating an “embassy in Silicon Valley.” - Why, with internet-connected devices, we’ve traded predictable downtime for unpredictable downtime. He...
Alex Iskold of 2048 Ventures and 1kproject.org to support Ukrainians
April 28, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBAlex Iskold, co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures and creator of 1kproject.org, joins Anne Dwane and Lucas Bagno on this episode to discuss: - What he is doing with 1kproject.org to help the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. - How he and a team of volunteers are empowering families in the US to send $1,000 directly to the bank card of a Ukrainian family. - How they use tech to vet applications to make sure the most deserving families receive funds. - What the money that is sent ...
Martin Gurri on Authority’s Reaction to The Revolt of the Public
April 26, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 64.3 MBMartin Gurri (@mgurri), author of The Revolt of the Public, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - The genesis of the thesis about the revolt of the public while Martin was working at the CIA analyzing communications as social media and blogging began to take off. - The challenges to authority that the free flow of information has presented and why those societies that allow for open communication have been winning. - The internet’s reactionary moment and whether there will be a ...
Manufacturing The American Dream with Chris Power of Hadrian
April 19, 2022 12:00 - 52 minutes - 60.2 MBChris Power (@2112Power), founder and CEO of Hadrian, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - Why manufacturing is key to a strong position in the world order. - The changes in the landscape that have enabled a company like Hadrian to be possible now, where it wasn’t five years ago. - What Chris would do if he was running the United States to win the new space race. - How to change the culture in the US so that more serious people can work on serious problems. - Why it’s easie...
Reinventing American Manufacturing: Katherine Boyle (a16z), Josh Wolfe (Lux), Chris Power (Hadrian)
April 14, 2022 21:33 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBChris Power (@2112Power), founder and CEO of Hadrian, Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle), partner at a16z, and Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh), co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital, join Anne Dwane and Erik Torenberg on this episode to discuss: - How Hadrian is abstracting the supply chain for space, aerospace, and defense manufacturing, and how it is analogous to AWS and Twilio in the software world. - Why Chris is the right person to tackle this problem. He wants to do this for geopolitical an...
America Next with Mike Maples
April 05, 2022 12:00 - 52 minutes - 59.7 MBMike Maples (@m2jr), founding partner at Floodgate, joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) and Ian Cinnamon (@iancinnamon) to discuss: - Why there has been an “epidemic of fakery” in society over the last 50 years or so. Mike says that institutions are pretending to be working rather than doing actual work. - Why the right “angle of attack” for societal problems is not head-on but rather to create something completely different than changes the subject entirely. - Why he advises founders to mak...
Why Healthtech Today is Like Fintech 5 Years Ago with Ayo Omojola
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 32.4 MBAyo Omojola (https://www.linkedin.com/in/omojola/), SVP of Product at Carbon Health, joins Anne Dwane (@adwane) and Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) to discuss: - What he noticed moving from fintech to healthtech. - Advice for people working in a highly regulated industry like healthcare. - What’s unique about Carbon Health and why healthtech is so promising. - Why he likes to hire former founders and his favorite interview questions. - How he thinks about angel investing as an operator and w...
The Space Economy with Delian Asparouhov
March 29, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 56.7 MBDelian Asparouhov (@zebulgar), co-founder of Varda Space Industries and principal at Founders Fund, joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) and Ian Cinnamon (@iancinnammon) on this episode to discuss: - Why he says that VCs have a moral obligation to fund companies that help keep America a step ahead of its adversaries. - Why space matters for him personally and why expanding the economic bounds of humankind is the best way to achieve all of humanity’s other goals. - The current state of the spa...
Tech, Federalism, Procurement, & Starlink with Katherine Boyle, a16z
March 22, 2022 12:00 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MBKatherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle), GP at a16z, joins Anne Dwane (@adwane) and Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) on this episode to discuss: - What needs to change inside the federal government for more contracts to go to startups. - How startups should think about working with state and local governments. - How trust has declined in public institutions over the last several decades and how companies can credibly step into that void by building in public and telling their own story. - How Starlink wil...
Lessons From Top Execs: Cristina Cordova (ex-Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion)
March 17, 2022 19:47 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBCristina Cordova was the 28th employee at Stripe and grew their partnerships arm from the ground up. Most recently, she led platform & partnerships at Notion, which included starting the Growth Product Team. In this episode, we discuss how to build a partnerships team, what to look for in BD hires, and the ins and outs of successful deal-making. Cristina is an active angel and advisor. You can hear more from her by following @cjc on Twitter. --- Execs is a show for founders, operators, a...
Why Defense Matters with Trae Stephens
March 15, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 56.3 MBTrae Stephens (@traestephens), co-founder at Anduril and partner at Founders Fund joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) and Ian Cinnamon (@iancinnamon) to discuss: - What keeps him up at night when he looks at the US today. - What he would change about the US government if he could wave a magic wand. - Common mistakes made by people selling to government. - How they think about acquisitions at Anduril. - Advice for people looking to build in the defense space. - What gives him hope when he ...
Lessons From Top Execs: Richard Ni (Head of People at Scale AI, ex-Head of Recruiting at Cruise)
March 11, 2022 20:55 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBRichard Ni is the current Head of People at Scale AI after being the first recruiting hire at Cruise Automation, where he helped bring the team from 10 to 700 in three years. Prior to leading people teams, Richard was a Software Engineer at Venmo and a Computer Science major at MIT. We discuss the unique perspective that his technical background gives him in recruiting, how to solicit genuine feedback from employees, and build a leveling system. --- Execs is a show for founders, operators...
How Tech Can Help Defend The US with Josh Wolfe
March 08, 2022 19:28 - 40 minutes - 46.3 MBVillage Global's Solarpunk is a new podcast series about technology, space, and defense. We discuss how western society will use technology to adapt to the changing global landscape. We’re inspired by the theme of solarpunk — the mindset of what the planet will look like when humanity succeeds in solving major contemporary challenges through technology. Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh), co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital, joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) and Ian Cinnamon (@IanCinnamon), ...
Fundraising and The State of Seed Investing with Semil Shah
March 03, 2022 16:54 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBSemil Shah (@semil), investor at Haystack and venture partner at Lightspeed, joins Lucas Bagno to discuss: - The trends Semil sees in the entrepreneurial landscape today: the ease of getting started as a founder, the fight for ownership among funds, and renewed attention to dilution from founders. - How he raised his most recent fund at Haystack and how he determined what size of fund to raise. - The lessons he’s learned about deploying funds. - What the downturn means for fund managers. ...
Lessons From Top Execs: Michal Cieplinski (CBO Pipe, ex-General Counsel at Fundbox)
March 02, 2022 00:23 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBMichal Cieplinski is the Chief Business Officer at Pipe. He has also spent time as General Counsel and CCO at Fundbox as well as a Senior VP at Lending Club, among other roles. He describes himself as a lawyer who has never really been a lawyer - meaning that “no” is a rare answer for him to give his fast-moving colleagues. In this episode, we discussed the important role that a CBO plays at a high growth tech company. Michal shares tips on building legal teams, hiring speed for the rest of...
Tokenization, Ownership, and Web3 with David Sneider and Stephen McKeon
February 24, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBDavid Sneider (@davidlsneider), of Lit Protocol, and Stephen McKeon (@sbmckeon), partner at Collab+Currency, join Anne Dwane to discuss: - What Lit Protocol is, what it enables, and how it is being used today. - The vision for a different architecture of the internet. - How user-owned networks would work and their prospects for achieving scale. - How tokenization allows all stakeholders to capture more of the network effects of a project. - The biggest challenges present in Web3 and how ...
Lessons From Top Execs: Olivia Chen (ex-Head of Supply, Product at Faire)
February 24, 2022 02:43 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBOlivia Chen was most recently Head of Product at Faire. She joined Faire as their first ops/business hire. By the time she left four years later, Faire had grown to over 750 employees and Olivia was managing a cross-functional team of more than 60 people. In this episode, we discussed how to build successful referral programs, how to grow a product team, how to navigate hyper-growth as an early-stage employee, and much more. Andrew Yu, Director of On Deck’s Product Management Fellowship, ...
Lessons From Top Execs: Sarah Smith (Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, ex-VP at Quora, ex-Director at Facebook)
February 17, 2022 13:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBSarah Smith is currently a partner at Bain Capital Ventures after an early career of building elite HR teams for huge tech players, including Facebook and Quora, where she helped scale Quora from 40 to 160 people in 3 years. In this episode, we discussed hiring that first crucial people person, how to train first-time management, how to nail goal setting, and how to improve vesting schedules. --- Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, ...
The State of Fintech in 2022 with Sheel Mohnot
February 15, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBSheel Mohnot (@pitdesi), founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, joins Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) of Village Global to discuss: - Sheel’s reflections on raising a fund and the opportunities he sees in fintech today. - The importance of ownership in seed investing. - How the fintech landscape has evolved over the last year. - Why non-fintech companies are integrating fintech into their business. - Whether banks can be disrupted and the unique regulatory environment that influences the finan...
Lessons From Top Execs: Anne Dwane (co-founder Village Global, ex-CBO at Chegg)
February 10, 2022 00:02 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBAnne Dwane is co-founder and partner at Village Global. She was previously CEO at Zinch, a network connecting students with colleges and scholarships. Zinch was acquired by Chegg, where she served as Chief Business Officer, before and after the IPO. Previously, Anne co-founded Military.com, a social and professional network for service members and veterans that was acquired by Monster. In this episode, they discussed how to do annual planning, how to figure out comp, why the role of a CBO is...
Lessons From Top Execs: Ben Braverman (Chief Customer Officer at Flexport)
February 01, 2022 21:32 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBToday’s guest is Ben Braverman. Ben is currently Chief Customer Officer at Flexport after 6 years of being their Chief Revenue Officer during Flexport’s hypergrowth period. In this episode, we discussed how to build a good sales machine from the ground up. Ben also shares his thoughts on all things revenue - from marketing to BD to forming early SDR teams. On Deck and Flexport are co-building the future of logistics — learn more about their joint accelerator at www.beondeck.com/x/flexport....
Lessons From Top Execs: Anand Chandrasekaran (EVP Five9, ex-Director at Facebook, ex-Chief Product Officer at Snapdeal)
January 26, 2022 00:10 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBExecs is a show from Erik Torenberg and On Deck for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. We're simulcasting the series on the Village Global podcast. Anand Chandrasekaran is a full-time angel and advisor with extensive executive experience at some of the biggest names in tech. Prior to being EVP to Five9, Anand worked at Facebook, Yahoo, and started several of his own companies. ...
Lessons From Top Execs: Gina Gotthilf (ex-VP of Marketing/Growth at Duolingo)
January 26, 2022 00:05 - 51 minutes - 47 MBExecs is a show from Erik Torenberg and On Deck for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. We're simulcasting the series on the Village Global podcast. Gina Gotthilf spent five years at Duolingo and helped the company grow from 3 million to 300 million users. She is the kind of VP of Marketing that isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. Gina is an A/B testing vet, and shared her best...
Lessons From Top Execs: Jared Fliesler (ex-VP at Square, ex-COO at Scribd)
January 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBExecs is a show from Erik Torenberg and On Deck for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale. We're simulcasting the series on the Village Global podcast. The first guest on Execs is Jared Fliesler. Most recently, Jared was COO at Scribd. Prior to Scribd, Jared was a VP at Square, and director at Google, and a GM at Slide (acquired by Google), where he worked closely with Keith Rabios ...
Inflation, Debt, and The Fed (Part 2) with Scott Sumner and Lyn Alden
January 18, 2022 20:16 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBScott Sumner (@scottsumnertmi), economist and author of The Money Illusion, and Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact), investment strategist, join Erik on this episode to discuss: - Whether monetary policy has been too expansionary. - Where Lyn and Scott differ on inflation. - Why interest rates have declined over the last several decades. - The nuances of the correlation between growth in money supply and CPI. - Potential downsides to being the global reserve currency. - Why the US has been abl...
Inflation, Debt, and The Fed (Part 1) with Scott Sumner and Lyn Alden
January 11, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBScott Sumner (@scottsumnertmi), economist and author of The Money Illusion, and Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact), investment strategist, join Erik on this episode to discuss: - Lyn’s position that the US needs to inflate its debt away and the mechanics of how that works. - The similarities and differences between the 1940s and the 2020s, when an external shock hit a highly leveraged economy. - How to monetize debt. - Why interest rates have remained low. - How the fed can keep inflation at b...
Building a World-Class Team with Elias Torres of Drift
January 04, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBElias Torres (@eliast), co-founder and CTO at Drift, joins Lucas Bagno for this episode, which was recorded as part of a special event for Villagers. They discussed: - Why Elias is so grateful for the US and the differences he noticed when he came here from Nicaragua. - How he has forged a great relationship with a co-founder who is the opposite of him in many ways. - Why people should be taking more risks. - Why they hired a recruiter as their first employee at Drift. - Why they place l...