ACQ2 by Acquired
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.
Episodes
- The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
Dec 8, 2025
- How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
Sep 18, 2025
- How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
Aug 18, 2025
- Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
Jun 16, 2025
- Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
May 27, 2025
- The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
Mar 10, 2025
- Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
Feb 18, 2025
- How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
Dec 2, 2024
- Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
Nov 11, 2024
- Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
Oct 14, 2024
- Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
Aug 20, 2024
- Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
Jun 24, 2024
- The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
May 24, 2024
- The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
May 6, 2024
- The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)
Mar 6, 2024
- Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
Dec 3, 2023
- Morgan Housel
Nov 6, 2023
- Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up
Sep 18, 2023
- Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
Aug 30, 2023
- Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
Aug 14, 2023
- Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
Jun 20, 2023
- Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
May 9, 2023
- AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself
Apr 20, 2023
- Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
Apr 13, 2023
- Ben and David on My First Million
Apr 7, 2023
- The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan)
Mar 20, 2023
- Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji
Feb 10, 2023
- Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds)
Jan 9, 2023
- Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa)
Dec 3, 2022
- Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-founder Jay Hoag)
Nov 10, 2022
- Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures)
Oct 31, 2022
- The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story
Oct 24, 2022
- Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture (with Thomas McGannon)
Oct 3, 2022
- Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)
Sep 9, 2022
- The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
Aug 22, 2022
- Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
Jul 27, 2022
- David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
May 23, 2022
- Travel for the Creator Economy
Apr 15, 2022
- Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
Apr 8, 2022
- Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
Mar 23, 2022
- TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi)
Mar 10, 2022
- Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
Feb 18, 2022
- 10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!)
Feb 17, 2022
- NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconductors!)
Feb 4, 2022
- Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days
Jan 27, 2022
- Italic & a New Era of Online Retail
Jan 6, 2022
- 2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
Jan 2, 2022
- Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)
Dec 30, 2021
- Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
Dec 6, 2021
- Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special
Dec 2, 2021
