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.
110 episodes
Episodes
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
01:14:588/18/2025
Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
01:15:246/16/2025
Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
01:01:315/27/2025
The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
00:57:223/10/2025
Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
00:55:502/18/2025
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
01:14:0912/2/2024
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
01:03:2211/11/2024
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
01:08:4110/14/2024
Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
00:47:018/20/2024
Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)