Co-Founder & General Partner at Village Global · Joined 2017
View Live Interactive Profile →Ben Casnocha founded his first company, Comcate Inc., at age 14, and went on to co-author 'The Start-Up of You' with Reid Hoffman, a New York Times bestseller that became foundational reading in Silicon Valley career thinking, before serving as Hoffman's Chief of Staff at LinkedIn. He co-founded Village Global in 2017 with Erik Torenberg, Anne Dwane, and Ross Fubini, building a genuinely network-first venture firm chaired by Hoffman and backed as limited partners by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Anne Wojcicki. Rather than a traditional small partner team making all investment decisions, Village Global distributes deal sourcing and evaluation across a network of more than 400 operator-angels called 'Network Leaders,' writing $500,000 to $3 million pre-seed and seed checks. The firm has backed 233 companies over its history, producing 9 unicorns and 22 acquisitions, and manages more than $500 million in AUM.