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- 3 days ago39 min
The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)
Paul Eremenko is co-founder and CEO of P-1 AI, the company building Archie, an AI mechanical and electrical engineer that works alongside human engineering teams. Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner at NEA and former Chairman and CEO of GE, and he's joining P-1 AI's board after leading the firm's investment in the company's $50 million Series A.Anne Dwane sits down with Paul and Jeff to unpack why engineering the physical world has lagged behind the AI boom in software, and how P-1 is closing that gap. Paul traces the idea back to his time at DARPA working on the F-35 program, where he saw firsthand how complexity, not procurement, was driving runaway costs, and explains how that thinking led to Archie's "semi-synthetic" training data approach for physical engineering domains. They dig into how Archie is built to sell as labor rather than software, why P-1 positions Archie as one AI engineer per team rather than a swarm, and how customer IP and data are ring-fenced under the company's deployment models. Jeff brings the perspective of a CEO who has advised dozens of companies on AI adoption, laying out his four-part framework for organizational readiness and the pitfalls of getting stuck in pilot purgatory. The conversation closes with a wide-ranging look at compute costs, hiring plans as P-1 scales into automotive and aerospace, and Paul's take on the technological singularity and what it means for how we build the physical world going forward.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal. Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
- 1 weeks ago49 min
How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)
Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, which he started in 2021 to help companies detect and defend against software supply chain attacks. A prolific open source maintainer whose packages are downloaded a billion times a month, Feross recently closed a Series C at a billion-dollar valuation, and Socket now protects nearly 30,000 organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Vercel.Anne Dwane sits down with Feross to unpack why the modern software supply chain has become such an attractive target for attackers, and what companies can actually do about it. Feross walks through real recent incidents, including the Axios and LiteLLM compromises that exposed major AI labs, breaking down how attackers used a months-long social engineering play against a single maintainer to hijack a library with 100 million weekly downloads. They get into why coding agents pull in 50% more open source code than human developers and the new risks that creates, why traditional vulnerability scanners miss most real threats, and what Socket Firewall does to protect the developer endpoint itself. The conversation also covers Feross's own path from open source maintainer to enterprise CEO, how Socket balances a free, developer-led product with enterprise sales, and how frontier AI models transformed Socket's ability to analyze code at scale. They close with practical guardrails any organization can put in place today, from lockfiles to minimum release age settings.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal. Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
- 2 weeks ago50 min
Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)
Jeff Cobourn leads finance, business operations, and strategy at Gusto, where he's spent nearly nine years building out the company's financial infrastructure. Rohit Divate recently joined Tide as VP of Finance after seven years in corporate finance and strategy at Gusto.Somrat Niyogi, General Partner at Recall Capital and Village Global Network Investor, sits down with Jeff and Rohit to unpack how AI has rewired the finance function from the inside out. They trace the shift from spreadsheets and BI tools to Claude Code as the default daily workflow, including how board decks that once took two weeks and five people now come together as pull requests against an HTML file. The conversation moves through what finance skills and attributes still matter in an AI-native world, whether teams will shrink or simply cover more ground, and how roles like BI, investor relations, and data visualization are starting to merge. Jeff and Rohit also get into the practical mechanics of the shift: how Gusto scores AI fluency across the entire company, how they're budgeting for token spend the way they once budgeted for headcount, and where the real build-versus-buy tension is playing out across ERP, FP&A software, and internal tools. They close with predictions on what's dead, what's dying, and what the first hire at a finance team in 2026 should actually look like.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal. Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
- 3 weeks ago1h 34m
Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)
Sherwood Callaway is the founder and CEO of Sazabi, an AI-native observability platform, and a repeat YC founder. He previously worked as an early infrastructure engineer at Brex, where he built the systems that kept one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world running.Village Global Luminary LP Lindsay Pettingill sits down with Sherwood for a conversation that moves from his unconventional path into engineering to the contrarian bets behind Sazabi. They dig into why Sherwood believes logs alone can replace metrics and traces, why dashboards mostly serve anxiety rather than insight, and what a world of self-healing software could actually look like. Along the way, Sherwood reflects on the 40-page manifesto that became Sazabi's founding thesis, the angel investor strategy that brought over 100 founders and technical leaders onto his cap table, and the maximalist, Blade Runner-inspired brand built around a name pulled from a 1980s anime. The episode closes on a more personal note, touching on his orthopedic surgeon father's late-career turn toward vibe coding and his sister Hadley's stint at Sazabi as its first non-technical hire before business school.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal. Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
- Jun 11, 20261h 4m
Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)
Moe Katib is the founder and CEO of One (withone.ai), an enterprise-level infrastructure platform that gives AI agents authenticated, reliable access to hundreds of software applications and verified actions. Before One, he spent 12 years solving enterprise integration problems, building the knowledge base that became the foundation for what he's building today.Village Global GP Anne Dwane sits down with Moe to trace the story behind One: from growing up in Damascus selling packaged chicken out of his uncle's factory, to building water-pump automation devices growing up, to immigrating to Canada after his invention was stolen by a government-connected company. They cover what a decade of enterprise integration work taught him about agent infrastructure, why he made the counterintuitive decision to open source all the integrations he had assembled, and why trust, not speed or scale, is the real unlock for agentic AI adoption. Moe also shares his own experience running his email entirely through an agent, including the moment his AI sent a rude message to a major VC on his behalf, and what that revealed about the identity problem at the heart of agentic software.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley.www.villageglobal.com/signup
- May 21, 20261h 2m
Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America — Alex Jekowsky
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 through cold emails and contact forms, why he priced Cents at a flat $299 from day one, and what it actually took to build a durable go-to-market motion in a market most investors wrote off. They also cover the distributor strategy that unlocked scale, how the Laundry Works acquisition changed everything, what Alex gets right about hiring slow, and why he thinks agentic AI is the only version of AI that actually matters for SMB operators.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley.www.villageglobal.com/signup
- May 20, 202658 min
LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman
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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
- May 14, 202652 min
Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong — Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton
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 launches and PR, when an agency is worth it (and when it is not), why your story should be about value rather than valuation, why reporters write about trends rather than companies, why 95% of stealth companies should not be in stealth, and the comms playbook for breaking through the noise.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 get in touch with us on X @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.com/signup
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