ACQ2 by Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
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ACQ2 is Ben and David's conversations with experts on topics related to Acquired. Acquired the stories of great companies — and ACQ2 dives deeper into the lessons we can learn from them, often with the protagonists themselves.
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Episodes (112)
The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Dec 8, 20251:14:17pending
How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
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Sep 18, 20251:47:08pending
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavo...
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Aug 18, 20251:13:20pending
Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
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Jun 16, 20251:13:46pending
Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with P...
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May 27, 202559:07pending
The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
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Mar 10, 202555:29pending
Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
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Feb 18, 202555:50pending
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
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Dec 2, 20241:12:16pending
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
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Nov 11, 20241:01:29pending
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
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Oct 14, 20241:06:48pending
Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
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Aug 20, 202445:09pending
Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
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Jun 24, 20241:17:31pending
The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
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May 24, 20241:17:03pending
The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine...
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May 6, 20241:13:41pending
The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's...
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Mar 6, 202458:12pending
Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
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Dec 3, 20231:33:01pending
Morgan Housel
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Nov 6, 20231:35:59pending
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche E...
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Sep 18, 20231:25:45pending
Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal...
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Aug 30, 202355:01pending
Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
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Aug 14, 20231:24:39pending
Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
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Jun 20, 20231:10:55pending
Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
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May 9, 20231:22:31pending
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself
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Apr 20, 202357:32pending
Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
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Apr 13, 20231:05:20pending
Ben and David on My First Million
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Apr 7, 20231:18:12pending
The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaram...
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Mar 20, 20231:05:21pending
Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji
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Feb 10, 20231:05:16pending
Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds...
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Jan 9, 20231:14:14pending
Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa)
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Dec 3, 20221:06:28pending
Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-fo...
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Nov 10, 202243:27pending
Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures)
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Oct 31, 20221:17:29pending
The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story
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Oct 24, 20221:06:17pending
Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture...
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Oct 3, 20221:34:05pending
Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)
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Sep 9, 20221:10:32pending
The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
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Aug 22, 20221:27:21pending
Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
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Jul 27, 20221:20:43pending
David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
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May 23, 20221:10:31pending
Travel for the Creator Economy
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Apr 15, 202254:08pending
Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
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Apr 8, 202232:25pending
Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
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Mar 23, 202259:51pending
TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capita...
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Mar 10, 202252:28pending
Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
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Feb 18, 20221:04:52pending
10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Ev...
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Feb 17, 20221:06:38pending
NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconducto...
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Feb 4, 20221:11:17pending
Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days
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Jan 27, 20221:31:33pending
Italic & a New Era of Online Retail
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Jan 6, 20221:09:34pending
2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
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Jan 2, 20221:43:35pending
Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)
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Dec 30, 202118:16pending
Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
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Dec 6, 202140:39pending
Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special
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Dec 2, 20211:30:26pending