Village Global Podcast
Description
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.
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