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
How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) (18.09.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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)
- Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
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