ACQ2 by Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

ACQ2 is Ben and David's conversations with experts on topics related to Acquired. Acquired the stories of great companies — and ACQ2 dives deeper into the lessons we can learn from them, often with the protagonists themselves.

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1597212401/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret) May 27, 2025
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue) October 14, 2024
Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan) December 30, 2021
How YC Rewrote the Seed Playbook with Garry Tan September 29, 2020

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