ACQ2 by Acquired

Business #207, Entrepreneurship #47

ACQ2 is Ben and David's conversations with expert founders and investors. Acquired the stories of great companies — and ACQ2 dives deeper into the lessons we can learn from them, often with the protagonists themselves.

The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
Mar 9, 2025 – 57:52
Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
Feb 17, 2025 – 58:14
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
Dec 2, 2024 – 01:14:40
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
Nov 10, 2024 – 01:03:53
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
Oct 14, 2024 – 01:09:12
Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
Aug 20, 2024 – 47:32
Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
Jun 24, 2024 – 01:19:54
The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
May 24, 2024 – 01:19:26
The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
May 6, 2024 – 01:16:05
The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)
Mar 5, 2024 – 01:00:36
Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
Dec 3, 2023 – 01:35:25
Morgan Housel
Nov 6, 2023 – 01:38:23
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up
Sep 17, 2023 – 01:28:09
Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
Aug 29, 2023 – 57:32
Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
Aug 14, 2023 – 01:27:14
Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
Jun 19, 2023 – 01:13:28
Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
May 8, 2023 – 01:25:06
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself
Apr 19, 2023 – 01:00:03
Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
Apr 13, 2023 – 01:07:53
Ben and David on My First Million
Apr 6, 2023 – 01:20:47
The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan)
Mar 19, 2023 – 01:07:54
Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji
Feb 10, 2023 – 01:07:49
Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds)
Jan 8, 2023 – 01:16:48
Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa)
Dec 2, 2022 – 01:09:00
Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-founder Jay Hoag)
Nov 10, 2022 – 45:57
Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures)
Oct 31, 2022 – 01:20:03
The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story
Oct 23, 2022 – 01:08:49
Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture (with Thomas McGannon)
Oct 2, 2022 – 01:36:41
Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)
Sep 8, 2022 – 01:13:05
The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
Aug 21, 2022 – 01:29:57
Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
Jul 27, 2022 – 01:23:18
David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
May 23, 2022 – 01:13:04
Travel for the Creator Economy
Apr 15, 2022 – 56:39
Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
Apr 7, 2022 – 34:53
Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
Mar 22, 2022 – 01:02:22
TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi)
Mar 10, 2022 – 54:58
Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
Feb 18, 2022 – 01:07:24
10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!)
Feb 16, 2022 – 01:09:11
NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconductors!)
Feb 4, 2022 – 01:13:51
Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days
Jan 26, 2022 – 01:34:09
Italic & a New Era of Online Retail
Jan 6, 2022 – 01:12:07
2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
Jan 2, 2022 – 01:46:13
Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)
Dec 30, 2021 – 20:42
Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
Dec 5, 2021 – 43:08
Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special
Dec 2, 2021 – 01:33:02
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Fireside Chat
Nov 14, 2021 – 43:30
Update on Dad Life, MacBook Pros, and Acquired Video
Nov 9, 2021 – 01:00:00
Web3 Marketplaces (with Braintrust CEO Adam Jackson)
Oct 26, 2021 – 01:01:45
Audius (with CEO Roneil Rumberg)
Oct 11, 2021 – 01:21:31
Special drop: David on Levels' Podcast!
Oct 6, 2021 – 01:14:19