Where founders come to think, connect, and grow.

Multi-day offsite getaways to empower you. Step away from the chaos of entrepreneurial life and connect with peers through guided breakout sessions, inspiring late-night chats, and intentional conversation.

"Village Global Founder Retreat is always an amazing place to learn and make connections with fellow entrepreneurs. The perspectives, approaches, flurries of new ideas, and pitching strategies to founders in the same situation or to seasoned veterans is incredibly valuable and insightful."

- Matthias Hofmann, Eyebot
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"I’ve been to many of these types of things and this is the best one I’ve been to."

- Tony Small, HeyLibby
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"Sitting here wearing my new Village Global t-shirt and flying high from the experience of the last three days. You absolutely knocked my socks off with the Villager Founder Retreat. It was the most impressive experience like this I have ever had."

- Ben Wiederholt, Junction Health

The luminary LPs who back Village do so with their money and time. We regularly invite our luminaries like Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Bob Iger, Ray Dalio, Shishir Mehrotra, Anne Wojcicki, Michael Dell, and Eric Yuan to share their pearls of wisdom.

“Incredible time with Bob [Iger] and the Village crew. Honored to be included in such an event. Village just absolutely crushes it when it comes to founder experience.”

- Niel Robertson, Winslow
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"Village Team: Wanted to thank you for the opportunity to meet with Reid [Hoffman] and Eric [Yuan]. Extremely influential and inspiring people and very grateful to share the screen with them.”

- Sharath Narayana, Sanas.ai

Our startup dinners are built for real conversation. Small, curated tables with a facilitator guiding a single discussion that's equal parts personal and professional. No pitching, no panels. Just the kind of dinner you'll still be thinking about well after it ended.

“That was the best “startup dinner” I have been to. It was a really good mix of people and an engaging setup. Not too pitchy, great food and conversation.”

- Sasha Orloff, Co-Founder & Former CEO, LendUp
Founder and CEO, Puzzle
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"I had a ton of fun and was amazed how high-signal dinner was."

- Chirag Mahapatra, Mercor
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"So many great takeaways brought to the table surrounded by some of the smartest startup folks in the Valley. Collaboration at its finest, with the wine a close second."

- Kathleen Egan, Ecomedes

In our masterclass series, founders and Network Leaders are exposed to world-class CEOs and operators in an intimate, participatory format. We bring together some of tech’s most effective CEOs like Steve Huffman, Howie Liu, Guillermo Rauch, Melanie Perkins, Abhay Parasnis, and many others, to share their wisdom on themes like PMF, community-led growth, the future of AI and enterprise, building an authentic culture, developing your most talented employees, and the founder to CEO transition.

“Thank you for putting together such a great event. I learned a lot, and got to meet some great new people that I plan on staying in touch with!”

- Tanuj Thapliyal, Co-Founder & CEO, Spot AI
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“I’ve been to a lot of events where there is a guest of honor and I can sincerely say this was by far the best. Your focus on knowledge sharing, encouraging other people to prepare in advance, the intimate nature of the venue, how you led the group through the mindquakes — it was truly a masterclass in holding this type of event.”

- Ryan Caldbeck, Co-Founder & Former CEO, CircleUp

At our luminary LP retreat, The Grove, we bring together some of our luminary LPs with the next wave of tech industry titans. Organized in partnership with Reid Hoffman, The Grove is about community and connection between some of the most successful entrepreneurs of today, and the next generation of unicorn CEOs.

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“The Grove was one of, if not the best of these types of events that I’ve been to. The people in attendance were extraordinary, the scale was just right to promote comraderie, the setting was beautiful and the Village team was phenomenal in making everyone feel welcome and appreciated.”

- Chris Urmson, CEO, Aurora
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"This event stands out as one of the best in the world. Debating internal political vs. apolitical company stances with Ev while at Medium, David from Roblox and Adam from Quora really helped cement my POV here at Socure. Structuring the CEO office at work and the home office at home with Fidji from Instacart and Jason at Marqeta in a small breakout group provided some tremendous ideas for automated systems and scale.“

- Johnny Ayers, Socure
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“This was my favorite event last year, and I look forward to attending again this year.”

- Aicha Evans, Zoox