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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: 104

The Acquired community's own Austin Federa joins us for a 101 primer on how to self-custody your cry

We had the rare opportunity to interview Jay Hoag, cofounder of the first tech crossover investing f

We sit down with Brian O’Malley of Forerunner Ventures to talk about where in the cycle we are right

The CEO of Mutiny, Jaleh Rezaei, joins us to talk about the playbook to profitably grow a B2B compan

Kindergarten Ventures LP (and fellow podcast host over at Unlimited Partners) Thomas McGannon interv

We sit down with Kettle cofounder — and David’s Kindergarten Ventures partner — Nat Manning to discu

 We sit down with long (long!) time-acquired community member Austin Federa to discuss the current s

What does a $200 million+ acquisition look like up close? How much time, focus, and communication ha

David is the first guest on a new podcast, Unlimited Partners! This is a wide-ranging interview wher

We sit down with TrovaTrip co-founders Nick Poggi and Lauren Schneider to talk about travel for the

We dropped by Vanta's all-hands in SF a few weeks ago for Christina to interview us for a change! We

We sit down with Composer CEO Benjamin Rollert to talk about bringing serious financial firepower to

We sit down with Bain Capital Ventures' newest fintech Partner Christina Melas-Kyriazi to talk about

In late 2021, Ben and David were guests on Ted Seides' podcast, "Capital Allocators". The episode ki

Get a cup of coffee. We sit down with the voice of one of our favorite Twitter accounts, 10-K Diver,

Back by popular “Acquired demand” (plus we really wanted to have this conversation for our own edifi

It has been dubbed "one of the best venture investments of all time" by Packy McCormick, generating

We sit down with Jeremy Cai, the CEO of new retail pioneer Italic, for a fascinating discussion of h

Originally broadcast live on New Years Eve: we raise a glass (of coffee haha) and recap 2021 with ou

Last month, Ben sat down with Wesley Chan at Web Summit for a quick, 18-minute interview. The conver