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.
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Episodes (112)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Fireside Chat
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Update on Dad Life, MacBook Pros, and Acquired Video
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Web3 Marketplaces (with Braintrust CEO Adam Jackson)
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Audius (with CEO Roneil Rumberg)
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Special drop: David on Levels' Podcast!
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Explaining Macroeconomics, The Fed, Interest Rates and Valuations (with Matt McB...
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Kim-Mai Cutler -- From Journalist to VC
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Managing a Crypto Fund (with Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital)
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Owning Your Own Media Stream (from Collison Conf with Garry Tan)
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Making your customers your secret weapon (with Highspot's Oliver Sharp)
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LP "Expert Call" with Josh Clemente from Levels
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The Meituan Bear Case (with Lillian Li)
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Modern Treasury interviews Ben & David (and vice versa!)
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State-of-SaaS and Deep Collaboration (with Jake Saper from Emergence Capital)
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The Idea Dinner #1 (with Mario Gabriele and Packy McCormick)
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Roblox IPO Preview (with Mario Gabriele from The Generalist)
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What Remote Work Looks Like in 2021 (and Beyond) with Doist CEO Amir Salihefendi...
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VC Fundamentals Part 4: Portfolio Construction & Management (with Jaclyn Hester...
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Masterclass: Superhuman's Fundraising Playbook (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
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Book Club Discussion: Brotopia with Emily Chang
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How YC Rewrote the Seed Playbook with Garry Tan
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VC Fundamentals Part 3: Company Building
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The Outsiders Book Club Discussion with author Will Thorndike
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Primer on SPACs with Kevin Hartz and Troy Steckenrider of A* and AONE
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Recording -- 7 Powers Book Club Discussion with Hamilton Helmer
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VC Fundamentals Part 2: Investment Decision Making
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Arming the Restaurant Rebels with Tock CEO Nick Kokonas
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VC Fundamentals: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partn...
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VC Fundamentals Part 1: Sourcing
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Pricing: everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, with Profi...
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High-performance Hiring & Interviewing with former Amazon Worldwide GM of Prime...
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The Jason Calacanis Special (cont.)
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Adapting: Mystery - How to Grow When Your Original Business Goes to Zero (with c...
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Everything you need to know about Pre-Seed (with Charles Hudson of Precursor Ven...
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Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Fost...
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Reverse Interview: Acquired Strategy, with Nathan Baschez of Divinations (& form...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Ben...
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Cameo CEO Steven Galanis on building the first non-advertising driven social med...
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Building Webflow, and the No-Code Movement (with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and C...
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Early Stage and Enterprise Investing (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at...
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Chewse CEO Tracy Lawrence on growing both as a company and a founder
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Marketplaces Deep Dive with Ramesh Johari
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How a Startup Studio Works
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The Random Episode: Twitter Commentary and 2019 Survey Feedback
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Product recruiting and executive search (with Andrew Abramson from Riviera Partn...
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Times they are a’changin: Series A is not what it used to be
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Due Diligence
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Building tech and product for marketplaces (with Rover cofounder Phil Kimmey)
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Reflections on the APLUSS IPOs so far, Uber+Lyft+regulators+autonomy, and listen...
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Building Product & Ops at Uber (with Brian Tolkin)
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