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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.
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)

01:19:236/24/2024