ACQ2 by Acquired
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.
Latest Episode
The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin (08.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
- How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
- Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
- Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
- The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
- Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
- How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
- Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
- Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
- Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
- Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
- The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
- The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
- The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)
- Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
- Morgan Housel
- Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up
- Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
- Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
- Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
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