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 (01:16:35)
Andrew 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 runs the DealBook Summ...
How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) (01:48:41)
Tobi 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 -- and still runs his com...
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) (01:14:53)
Is 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 product builders in the wor...
Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner) (01:15:54)
The 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 step out of the batter...
Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret) (01:01:16)
We 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 through journey of almo...
The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott) (00:57:37)
We 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 started his career as a ba...
Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch) (00:57:59)
Vercel 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 ends on them. Today we...
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas) (01:14:25)
ARM 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!), leaving the “serious computi...
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO) (01:03:38)
Duolingo 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 thought you could never bu...
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue) (01:08:56)
We 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 AI models, datasets, an...
Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer (00:47:17)
We 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 shares some of the lessons ...
Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski) (01:19:39)
The 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 by 150 million consume...
The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company (01:19:11)
The 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 possible. Today we are joi...
The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi) (01:15:50)
If 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 chain: the fabless chip co...
The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor) (01:00:21)
On 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 its predecessor liraglu...
Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja) (01:35:10)
We’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 our research sources f...
Morgan Housel (01:38:08)
We 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 of Money had a huge imp...
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up (01:27:54)
While 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 own episode, released...
Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela) (00:57:17)
We 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 Everywhere All at Once”...
Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller) (01:26:59)
We 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 scratch, and 2) colocating...
Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM) (01:13:13)
Every 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 investing. TDM is anothe...
Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper (01:24:51)
How 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 friend of the show Jake Sap...
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself (00:59:48)
Since 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 SPV provider to a com...
Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales (01:07:38)
David 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 the UK, then returned ...
Ben and David on My First Million (01:20:31)
Ben 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 against, and the 100+ year hi...
