ACQ2 by Acquired
de Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
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The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
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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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- The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin · 1 h 14 minAndrew Ross Sorkin does the work of about five people. He founded and writes the DealBook newsletter for the New York Times. He hosts Squawk Box on CNBC every morning at 6am. He…
- How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) · 1 h 47 minTobi is one of the most thoughtful people in the technology industry. He's also one of the very few people who started as a programmer -- just trying to solve his own problem…
- How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) · 1 h 13 minIs AI just better software? Or something completely different that requires a new paradigm to understand? Today we sit down with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, two of the best…
- Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner) · 1 h 13 minThe Savannah Bananas have created a whole new sport. It’s baseball, but it’s not. It’s fast-paced, exciting, and incredibly entertaining. For example, if you're batting, and you…
- Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret) · 59 minWe sit down with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, to discuss the remarkable journey of Plaid and the broader fintech landscape over the past several years. Zach takes us blow-by-blow…
- The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott) · 55 minWe sit down with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott for a masterclass in the art of enterprise sales — a topic where Bill ranks as one of the all-time greats by any measure. Bill…
- Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch) · 56 minVercel has become the infrastructure platform powering modern web development over the past several years, with companies from Stripe to Adobe to Runway all building their front…
- How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas) · 1 h 12 minARM is an incredibly unlikely story. They were founded in Cambridge, England in 1990 to design a new chip architecture just for low-power devices (like the Apple Newton!)…
- Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO) · 1 h 1 minDuolingo has fundamentally changed the landscape of self-guided education, starting with language learning. It is now a $9B publicly traded company in a space where everyone…
- Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue) · 1 h 6 minWe sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue to understand the current state of the open source AI ecosystem. Hugging Face is the leading platform to host and collaborate on…
- Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer · 45 minWe sit down with legendary quarterback Joe Montana to discuss his transition from one of the greatest athletes of all time to… one of the great venture investors today. Joe…
- Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski) · 1 h 17 minThe tenacity required to build Klarna over the last 19 years is astonishing. Despite several headwinds and changes in the payments landscape since founding, Klarna is used today…
- The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company · 1 h 17 minThe space industry is one of the most fascinating areas of technology in 2024. The reduction in launch costs and proliferation of satellites make all kinds of new businesses…
- The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi) · 1 h 13 minIf you’ve been waiting for us to venture back to the land of semiconductors, you’re in luck! On our NVIDIA and TSMC episodes, we explored two components of the silicon value…
- The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor) · 58 minOn our Novo Nordisk episode, we covered the business of Ozempic, the GLP-1 taking the world by storm. On this episode, we dive into the science of the molecule semaglutide (and…
- Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja) · 1 h 33 minWe’re joined by Imprint cofounder and Thrive General Partner Gaurav Ahuja to dive deeper into the modern payments ecosystem and Visa’s current place within it. Gaurav was one of…
- Morgan Housel · 1 h 35 minWe sit down with Morgan Housel, who is one of our very favorite authors and has also become a good friend of the show over the past few years. Morgan’s last book The Psychology…
- Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up · 1 h 25 minWhile preparing for our Porsche episode with Doug DeMuro, we had a lot more than Porsche to discuss… but the episode was already over 3 hours! We decided to save the rest for its…
- Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela) · 55 minWe sit down with RunwayML’s CEO Cristobal Valenzuela to discuss the incredible tools they’re bringing to film and video creators (including last year’s Best Picture “Everything…
- Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller) · 1 h 24 minWe sit down with Crusoe Energy CEO Chase Lochmiller to talk about the two “hard to imagine” tasks they’ve undertaken: 1) building a new AI cloud infrastructure provider from…
- Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM) · 1 h 10 minEvery now and then, we come across super interesting and under-the-radar (at least to us!) public markets folks like NZS Capital who make us think differently about the art of…
- Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper · 1 h 22 minHow do you build defensible business value in an era when, as AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli said on our last ACQ2 episode, the “cost of intelligence is going to zero”? Longtime…
- AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself · 58 minSince joining AngelList as CEO in 2019, Avlok Kohli has presided over perhaps the most unexpected and astounding transformation in the venture ecosystem: taking AngelList from an…
- Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales · 1 h 5 minDavid Hsu has one of the most interesting founders journeys in tech today. After growing up in Silicon Valley, he left to study both philosophy and computer science at Oxford in…
- Ben and David on My First Million · 1 h 18 minBen and David joined Sam and Shaan of "My First Million" to talk about scaling to a large podcast, the company they would like to own, the CEO's you don't want to compete…
- The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan) · 1 h 5 minOn our AWS episode, we talked briefly about the next chapter of cloud: data warehouses. But what makes them so powerful? Why do enterprises rely on them? And how will cloud…
- Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji · 1 h 5 minStatsig CEO and former Facebook VP Vijaye Raji joins us to discuss democratizing the tools of big tech. Before starting Statsig, Vijaye spent 10 years at Facebook where he led…
- Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds) · 1 h 14 minWe sit down with Altimeter Capital’s head of Capital Formation Meghan Reynolds (who previously was TPG’s global co-head of Capital Formation for 10 years) to talk about…
- Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa) · 1 h 6 minThe Acquired community's own Austin Federa joins us for a 101 primer on how to self-custody your crypto assets, and why it’s the only truly safe way to hold them. Given all the…
- Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-founder Jay Hoag) · 43 minWe had the rare opportunity to interview Jay Hoag, cofounder of the first tech crossover investing firm, TCV, at TCV’s Engage Summit in Half Moon Bay earlier this fall. Jay and…
- Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures) · 1 h 17 minWe sit down with Brian O’Malley of Forerunner Ventures to talk about where in the cycle we are right now for consumer investing. We touch on the macro environment (obviously!)…
- The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story · 1 h 6 minThe CEO of Mutiny, Jaleh Rezaei, joins us to talk about the playbook to profitably grow a B2B company — something particularly useful for founders in 2022! Jaleh was Gusto’s…
- Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture (with Thomas McGannon) · 1 h 34 minKindergarten Ventures LP (and fellow podcast host over at Unlimited Partners) Thomas McGannon interviews David about Kindergarten’s investment thesis for their recent large…
- Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning) · 1 h 10 minWe sit down with Kettle cofounder — and David’s Kindergarten Ventures partner — Nat Manning to discuss the fascinating world of reinsurance, risk and climate. We couldn’t think…
- The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa · 1 h 27 minWe sit down with long (long!) time-acquired community member Austin Federa to discuss the current state of crypto and Web3. By day Austin is the head of marketing &…
- Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell) · 1 h 20 minWhat does a $200 million+ acquisition look like up close? How much time, focus, and communication happens between the first conversation and closing the deal? And when do the…
- David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners" · 1 h 10 minDavid is the first guest on a new podcast, Unlimited Partners! This is a wide-ranging interview where upon listening, even Ben learned some new things about David :) Unlimited…
- Travel for the Creator Economy · 54 minWe sit down with TrovaTrip co-founders Nick Poggi and Lauren Schneider to talk about travel for the creator economy. This one is very close to home since Ben is on their board!…
- Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta · 32 minWe dropped by Vanta's all-hands in SF a few weeks ago for Christina to interview us for a change! We decided to turn the mics on and record it as an ACQ2 episode. We discussed…
- Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert) · 60 minWe sit down with Composer CEO Benjamin Rollert to talk about bringing serious financial firepower to the people, wallstreetbets-style. Composer opens up to anyone the same level…
- TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi) · 52 minWe sit down with Bain Capital Ventures' newest fintech Partner Christina Melas-Kyriazi to talk about everything happening right now in fintech, and the experience of helping…
- Ben and David on "Capital Allocators" · 1 h 4 minIn late 2021, Ben and David were guests on Ted Seides' podcast, "Capital Allocators". The episode kicked off Ted's "Venture is Eating the Investment World" mini-series. From Ted…
- 10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!) · 1 h 6 minGet a cup of coffee. We sit down with the voice of one of our favorite Twitter accounts, 10-K Diver, to talk about his journey building one of the most widely followed (and…
- NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconductors!) · 1 h 11 minBack by popular “Acquired demand” (plus we really wanted to have this conversation for our own edification!!), friends of the pod NZS Capital return to talk about what’s going…
- Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days · 1 h 31 minIt has been dubbed "one of the best venture investments of all time" by Packy McCormick, generating over a 4000X return in 3-and-a-half years. Today, we are talking with Chris…
- Italic & a New Era of Online Retail · 1 h 9 minWe sit down with Jeremy Cai, the CEO of new retail pioneer Italic, for a fascinating discussion of how they're upending the traditional manufacturer-brand-retailer model by…
- 2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist · 1 h 43 minOriginally broadcast live on New Years Eve: we raise a glass (of coffee haha) and recap 2021 with our besties Mario Gabriele from the Generalist and Packy McCormick from Not…
- Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan) · 18 minLast month, Ben sat down with Wesley Chan at Web Summit for a quick, 18-minute interview. The conversation was supposed to be about global investing in 2021 as an early-stage VC…
- Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson) · 41 minToday we're excited to have a longtime friend of the Acquired family on ACQ2, Rob Meyerson. Rob was the President of Blue Origin for 15 years, and today is an investor and…
- Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special · 1 h 30 minBen and David go on "This Week in Startups" with Jason Calacanis for a holiday special! Discussion includes: - Talking TWIST and All-In this year with everything from politics to…
