ACQ2 by Acquired

A podcast by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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102 Episodes

  1. How YC Rewrote the Seed Playbook with Garry Tan

    Published: 9/29/2020
  2. VC Fundamentals Part 3: Company Building

    Published: 9/15/2020
  3. The Outsiders Book Club Discussion with author Will Thorndike

    Published: 9/3/2020
  4. Primer on SPACs with Kevin Hartz and Troy Steckenrider of A* and AONE

    Published: 8/25/2020
  5. Recording -- 7 Powers Book Club Discussion with Hamilton Helmer

    Published: 8/19/2020
  6. VC Fundamentals Part 2: Investment Decision Making

    Published: 8/6/2020
  7. Arming the Restaurant Rebels with Tock CEO Nick Kokonas

    Published: 7/27/2020
  8. VC Fundamentals: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark

    Published: 7/7/2020
  9. VC Fundamentals Part 1: Sourcing

    Published: 6/10/2020
  10. Pricing: everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, with ProfitWell CEO Patrick Campbell

    Published: 5/21/2020
  11. High-performance Hiring & Interviewing with former Amazon Worldwide GM of Prime Membership, Anna Collins

    Published: 5/5/2020
  12. The Jason Calacanis Special (cont.)

    Published: 4/29/2020
  13. Adapting: Mystery - How to Grow When Your Original Business Goes to Zero (with cofounders Shane Kovalsky & Vince Coppola)

    Published: 4/7/2020
  14. Everything you need to know about Pre-Seed (with Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures)

    Published: 3/24/2020
  15. Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster)

    Published: 2/24/2020
  16. Reverse Interview: Acquired Strategy, with Nathan Baschez of Divinations (& former Gimlet Media + Substack)

    Published: 1/21/2020
  17. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)

    Published: 1/10/2020
  18. Cameo CEO Steven Galanis on building the first non-advertising driven social media company (at least in the US!)

    Published: 1/6/2020
  19. Building Webflow, and the No-Code Movement (with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO)

    Published: 12/12/2019
  20. Early Stage and Enterprise Investing (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)

    Published: 11/11/2019

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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.