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ACQ2 is Ben and David's conversations with expert founders and investors. Acquired the stories of gr

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Total: 105

ARM is an incredibly unlikely story. They were founded in Cambridge, England in 1990 to design a new

Duolingo has fundamentally changed the landscape of self-guided education, starting with language le

We sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue to understand the current state of the open source A

We sit down with legendary quarterback Joe Montana to discuss his transition from one of the greates

The tenacity required to build Klarna over the last 19 years is astonishing. Despite several headwin

The space industry is one of the most fascinating areas of technology in 2024. The reduction in laun

If you’ve been waiting for us to venture back to the land of semiconductors, you’re in luck! On our

On our Novo Nordisk episode, we covered the business of Ozempic, the GLP-1 taking the world by storm

We’re joined by Imprint cofounder and Thrive General Partner Gaurav Ahuja to dive deeper into the mo

We sit down with Morgan Housel, who is one of our very favorite authors and has also become a good f

While preparing for our Porsche episode with Doug DeMuro, we had a lot more than Porsche to discuss…

We sit down with RunwayML’s CEO Cristobal Valenzuela to discuss the incredible tools they’re bringin

We sit down with Crusoe Energy CEO Chase Lochmiller to talk about the two “hard to imagine” tasks th

Every now and then, we come across super interesting and under-the-radar (at least to us!) public ma

How do you build defensible business value in an era when, as AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli said on our

Since joining AngelList as CEO in 2019, Avlok Kohli has presided over perhaps the most unexpected an

David Hsu has one of the most interesting founders journeys in tech today. After growing up in Silic

Ben and David joined Sam and Shaan of "My First Million" to talk about scaling to a large podcast, t

On our AWS episode, we talked briefly about the next chapter of cloud: data warehouses. But what mak

Statsig CEO and former Facebook VP Vijaye Raji joins us to discuss democratizing the tools of big te