ACQ2 by Acquired
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ACQ2 by Acquired

by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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.

100 episodes
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1
The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
1:16:35 Dec 8, 2025
2
How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
1:48:41 Sep 18, 2025
3
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
1:14:53 Aug 18, 2025
4
Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
1:15:19 Jun 16, 2025
5
Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
1:01:20 May 27, 2025
6
The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
57:42 Mar 10, 2025
7
Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
58:03 Feb 18, 2025
8
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
1:14:29 Dec 2, 2024
9
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
1:03:42 Nov 11, 2024
10
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
1:09:01 Oct 14, 2024
11
Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
47:21 Aug 20, 2024
12
Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
1:19:43 Jun 24, 2024
13
The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
1:19:16 May 24, 2024
14
The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
1:15:54 May 6, 2024
15
The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)
1:00:25 Mar 6, 2024
16
Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
1:35:14 Dec 3, 2023
17
Morgan Housel
1:38:12 Nov 6, 2023
18
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up
1:27:58 Sep 18, 2023
19
Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
57:21 Aug 30, 2023
20
Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
1:27:03 Aug 14, 2023
21
Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
1:13:18 Jun 20, 2023
22
Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
1:24:55 May 9, 2023
23
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself
59:53 Apr 20, 2023
24
Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
1:07:42 Apr 13, 2023
25
Ben and David on My First Million
1:20:36 Apr 7, 2023
26
The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan)
1:07:43 Mar 20, 2023
27
Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji
1:07:38 Feb 10, 2023
28
Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds)
1:16:37 Jan 9, 2023
29
Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa)
1:08:50 Dec 3, 2022
30
Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-founder Jay Hoag)
45:46 Nov 10, 2022
31
Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures)
1:19:52 Oct 31, 2022
32
The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story
1:08:38 Oct 24, 2022
33
Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture (with Thomas McGannon)
1:36:30 Oct 3, 2022
34
Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)
1:12:54 Sep 9, 2022
35
The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
1:29:46 Aug 22, 2022
36
Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
1:23:07 Jul 27, 2022
37
David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
1:12:53 May 23, 2022
38
Travel for the Creator Economy
56:28 Apr 15, 2022
39
Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
34:42 Apr 8, 2022
40
Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
1:02:11 Mar 23, 2022
41
TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi)
54:48 Mar 10, 2022
42
Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
1:07:14 Feb 18, 2022
43
10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!)
1:09:00 Feb 17, 2022
44
NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconductors!)
1:13:40 Feb 4, 2022
45
Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days
1:33:58 Jan 27, 2022
46
Italic & a New Era of Online Retail
1:11:56 Jan 6, 2022
47
2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
1:46:02 Jan 2, 2022
48
Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)
20:31 Dec 30, 2021
49
Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
42:57 Dec 6, 2021
50
Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special
1:32:51 Dec 2, 2021
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