Anne Dwane, Village Global co-founder, scales the firm on two principles: being absolutely essential to founders with practical resources like sales and hiring help, and being extremely entertaining to build community. She engages LPs at fun events where founders can share their vision.
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I'm curious, as you've grown Village Global, how do you think about like scaling that infrastructure?
Yep. I think it's, you know, when I was a founder, I got good advice, which is you gotta be absolutely essential or extremely entertaining to break through in a busy world. And the world has not gotten anything but busier. And I would say those 2 principles apply. So if you're absolutely essential and useful, Mm-hmm. To founders like, well, this is a resource I can turn to when I need help with selling or when I'm hiring or something like that. That's one. And then the other is the value of community and entertainment. Mm-hmm. And how do we get the— some of our LPs to participate in events or to meet founders? And the reality is we make it fun. Mm-hmm. We help founders share their vision of the future. Not they're pitching their seed stage company to somebody who's, you know, really a very established entrepreneur.