ACQ2 by Acquired
By Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
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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.
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Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company
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May 24, 2024 |
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The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
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May 06, 2024 |
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The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Morgan Housel
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper
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May 09, 2023 |
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AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Ben and David on My First Million
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Future of Cloud Data Collaboration (with Samooha Co-Founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Democratizing the Tools of Big Tech with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Capital Formation and the LP / GP Relationship (with Altimeter’s Meghan Reynolds)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Crypto Self-Custody 101 (with Austin Federa)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Netflix's Journey, Building TCV, and Investing Through Downturns (with TCV co-founder Jay Hoag)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Consumer Investing in 2022 (with Brian O'Malley of Forerunner Ventures)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Profitable B2B Growth Playbook and Mutiny’s Story
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Kindergarten Ventures’ Vanta investment, and building a new Strategy for Venture (with Thomas McGannon)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Reinsurance, Climate + Kindergarten Ventures (with Nat Manning)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
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May 23, 2022 |
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Travel for the Creator Economy
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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NZS Capital Part II: What’s Going on in Today’s Markets? (Plus more Semiconductors!)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Race Capital, Crypto Investing, and FTX + Solana’s Early Days
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Italic & a New Era of Online Retail
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Fireside Chat
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Update on Dad Life, MacBook Pros, and Acquired Video
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Web3 Marketplaces (with Braintrust CEO Adam Jackson)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Audius (with CEO Roneil Rumberg)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Special drop: David on Levels' Podcast!
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Explaining Macroeconomics, The Fed, Interest Rates and Valuations (with Matt McBrady)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Kim-Mai Cutler -- From Journalist to VC
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Managing a Crypto Fund (with Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Owning Your Own Media Stream (from Collison Conf with Garry Tan)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Making your customers your secret weapon (with Highspot's Oliver Sharp)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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LP "Expert Call" with Josh Clemente from Levels
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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The Meituan Bear Case (with Lillian Li)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Modern Treasury interviews Ben & David (and vice versa!)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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State-of-SaaS and Deep Collaboration (with Jake Saper from Emergence Capital)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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The Idea Dinner #1 (with Mario Gabriele and Packy McCormick)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Roblox IPO Preview (with Mario Gabriele from The Generalist)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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What Remote Work Looks Like in 2021 (and Beyond) with Doist CEO Amir Salihefendić
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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VC Fundamentals Part 4: Portfolio Construction & Management (with Jaclyn Hester & Lindel Eakman of Foundry Group)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Masterclass: Superhuman's Fundraising Playbook (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Book Club Discussion: Brotopia with Emily Chang
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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How YC Rewrote the Seed Playbook with Garry Tan
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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VC Fundamentals Part 3: Company Building
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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The Outsiders Book Club Discussion with author Will Thorndike
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Primer on SPACs with Kevin Hartz and Troy Steckenrider of A* and AONE
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Recording -- 7 Powers Book Club Discussion with Hamilton Helmer
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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VC Fundamentals Part 2: Investment Decision Making
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Arming the Restaurant Rebels with Tock CEO Nick Kokonas
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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VC Fundamentals: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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VC Fundamentals Part 1: Sourcing
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Pricing: everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, with ProfitWell CEO Patrick Campbell
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May 21, 2020 |
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High-performance Hiring & Interviewing with former Amazon Worldwide GM of Prime Membership, Anna Collins
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May 05, 2020 |
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The Jason Calacanis Special (cont.)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Adapting: Mystery - How to Grow When Your Original Business Goes to Zero (with cofounders Shane Kovalsky & Vince Coppola)
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Everything you need to know about Pre-Seed (with Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures)
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Reverse Interview: Acquired Strategy, with Nathan Baschez of Divinations (& former Gimlet Media + Substack)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Cameo CEO Steven Galanis on building the first non-advertising driven social media company (at least in the US!)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Building Webflow, and the No-Code Movement (with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Early Stage and Enterprise Investing (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Chewse CEO Tracy Lawrence on growing both as a company and a founder
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Marketplaces Deep Dive with Ramesh Johari
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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How a Startup Studio Works
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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The Random Episode: Twitter Commentary and 2019 Survey Feedback
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Product recruiting and executive search (with Andrew Abramson from Riviera Partners)
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Aug 17, 2019 |
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Times they are a’changin: Series A is not what it used to be
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Due Diligence
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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Building tech and product for marketplaces (with Rover cofounder Phil Kimmey)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Reflections on the APLUSS IPOs so far, Uber+Lyft+regulators+autonomy, and listener Q&A
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May 30, 2019 |
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Building Product & Ops at Uber (with Brian Tolkin)
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May 05, 2019 |
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VC Term Sheets
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Reinventing Upfront and building LA (with Upfront partner Kevin Zhang)
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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The Art of SaaS Investing (with Jake Saper, Partner at Emergence Capital)
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Beyond Instagram with Emily White
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Why aren't energy startups funded like software? (with Doug Rand)
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Investment Theses
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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How VC Firms Really Work
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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2018 Holiday Special
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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The Art of Pitching
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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Growing Airbnb (with Dan Hill, CEO of Alma and former Head of Growth at Airbnb)
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Product-market fit
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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VC Vocab
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Oct 21, 2018 |