Acquired LPs

The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin

<p>Andrew Ross Sorkin does the work of about five people. He founded and writes the DealBook newsletter for the New York Times. He hosts Squawk Box on CNBC every morning …

Dec 08, 2025 · 1h 16m

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How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)

<p>Tobi is one of the most thoughtful people in the technology industry. He's also one of the very few people who started as a programmer -- just trying to solve …

Sep 18, 2025 · 1h 49m

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How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)

<p>Is AI just better software? Or something completely different that requires a new paradigm to understand? Today we sit down with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, two of the best …

Aug 18, 2025 · 1h 13m

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Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)

<p>The Savannah Bananas have created a whole new sport. It’s baseball, but it’s not. It’s fast-paced, exciting, and incredibly entertaining. For example, if you're batting, and you step out of …

Jun 16, 2025 · 1h 15m

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Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)

<p>We sit down with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, to discuss the remarkable journey of Plaid and the broader fintech landscape over the past several years. Zach takes us blow-by-blow …

May 27, 2025 · 1h 1m

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The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)

<p>We sit down with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott for a masterclass in the art of enterprise sales — a topic where Bill ranks as one of the all-time greats by …

Mar 10, 2025 · 57m

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Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)

<p>Vercel has become <em>the</em> infrastructure platform powering modern web development over the past several years, with companies from Stripe to Adobe to Runway all building their front ends on them. …

Feb 18, 2025 · 57m

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How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)

<p>ARM is an incredibly unlikely story. They were founded in Cambridge, England in 1990 to design a new chip architecture just for low-power devices (like the Apple Newton!), leaving the …

Dec 02, 2024 · 1h 14m

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Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)

<p>Duolingo has fundamentally changed the landscape of self-guided education, starting with language learning. It is now a $9B publicly traded company in a space where everyone thought you could never …

Nov 11, 2024 · 1h 3m

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Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)

<p>We sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue to understand the current state of the open source AI ecosystem. Hugging Face is the leading platform to host and collaborate …

Oct 14, 2024 · 1h 8m

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Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer

<p>We sit down with legendary quarterback Joe Montana to discuss his transition from one of the greatest athletes of all time to… one of the great venture investors today. Joe …

Aug 20, 2024 · 47m

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Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)

<p>The tenacity required to build Klarna over the last 19 years is astonishing. Despite several headwinds and changes in the payments landscape since founding, Klarna is used today by 150 …

Jun 24, 2024 · 1h 19m

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The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company

<p>The space industry is one of the most fascinating areas of technology in 2024. The reduction in launch costs and proliferation of satellites make all kinds of new businesses possible. …

May 24, 2024 · 1h 19m

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The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)

<p>If you’ve been waiting for us to venture back to the land of semiconductors, you’re in luck! On our NVIDIA and TSMC episodes, we explored two components of the silicon …

May 06, 2024 · 1h 15m

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The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor)

<p>On our <a href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/novo-nordisk-ozempic">Novo Nordisk episode</a>, we covered the business of Ozempic, the GLP-1 taking the world by storm. On this episode, we dive into the <em>science</em> of the molecule …

Mar 06, 2024 · 1h 0m

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Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja)

<p>We’re joined by Imprint cofounder and Thrive General Partner Gaurav Ahuja to dive deeper into the modern payments ecosystem and Visa’s current place within it. Gaurav was one of our …

Dec 03, 2023 · 1h 35m

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Morgan Housel

<p>We sit down with Morgan Housel, who is one of our very favorite authors and has also become a good friend of the show over the past few years. Morgan’s …

Nov 06, 2023 · 1h 38m

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Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up

<p>While preparing for our <a href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/porsche-with-doug-demuro">Porsche episode with Doug DeMuro</a>, we had a lot more than Porsche to discuss… but the episode was already over 3 hours! We decided to …

Sep 18, 2023 · 1h 27m

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Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela)

<p>We sit down with RunwayML’s CEO Cristobal Valenzuela to discuss the incredible tools they’re bringing to film and video creators (including last year’s Best Picture “Everything Everywhere All at Once” …

Aug 30, 2023 · 57m

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Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller)

<p>We sit down with Crusoe Energy CEO Chase Lochmiller to talk about the two “hard to imagine” tasks they’ve undertaken: 1) building a new AI cloud infrastructure provider from scratch, …

Aug 14, 2023 · 1h 26m

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