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  • Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick Thompson

    Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick Thompson
    Mar 26 2026
    Doug Camplejohn is the Founder & CEO of Coffee, an AI-first CRM. Doug co-founded Fliptop (acquired by LinkedIn), led Sales Navigator at LinkedIn as VP of Product, then ran Sales Cloud at Salesforce as EVP and GM. He's also had exits with Mi5 Networks (acquired by Symantec) and MyPlay (acquired by Bertelsmann).

    Patrick Thompson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Clarify, an AI-native CRM built for modern go-to-market teams. Clarify has raised $22.5 million. Before Clarify, Patrick co-founded Iteratively, a customer data platform acquired by Amplitude in 2021, where he served as Director of Product and GM for Amplitude CDP. Earlier in his career, he led design for Jira Software at Atlassian.

    Two founders building competing AI-native CRMs sit down together for the first time. They talk with Somrat Niyogi about why this is the moment for CRM disruption, why you can't just slap an LLM on a legacy database, what it actually takes to build table stakes in CRM, why the term "CRM" has always been a misnomer, how AI changes the business model from per-seat to work-output pricing, what Salesforce and HubSpot are doing behind the scenes, and what they'd tell founders considering the category.

    Clarify: https://clarify.ai
    Coffee: https://coffee.ai

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    55 mins
  • Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh

    Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh
    Mar 18 2026
    Sumeet Singh, Founder & Managing Partner of Worldbuild, lays out his investing thesis for the AI era: The Model Economy.

    His argument is that most AI startups being built today are fighting a losing battle against the scaling laws. The models themselves will swallow the application layer. So where does durable value actually go?

    Sumeet walks through the Bitter Lesson (Richard Sutton's foundational insight on why brute-force scale always beats domain-specific cleverness), what the mobile era teaches us about what's coming, and the two types of companies he believes actually win: infrastructure that keeps models alive and growing, and post-skeuomorphic applications that build workflows only possible with AI.

    This is the second episode of Worldbuilders — a series on the Village Global Podcast hosted by Sumeet Singh, exploring the people and ideas shaping what comes next.

    Watch the first episode with Evan Conrad (SF Compute): https://youtu.be/pteKdEGYRjU

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    13 mins
  • Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)

    Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)
    Mar 13 2026
    This is the first episode of Worldbuilders, a new series on the Village Global Podcast guest-hosted by Sumeet Singh, Founder & Managing Partner of Worldbuild.

    Sumeet sits down with Evan Conrad, Founder & CEO of the San Francisco Compute Company, to talk about the real economics of GPU compute, how SF Compute went from an accidental GPU cloud to building supercomputers, where the actual AI bubble is, and why the future of supercomputing should be calm.

    Topics covered include: the origin story of SF Compute, why GPU contracts require multi-year commitments, the difference between GPU and CPU economics, what "offtake" means and why it matters, the Marriott model for supercomputing, and how SF Compute is working to reduce the risk of an AI bubble.

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    43 mins
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