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Estimated from 36 chart positions in 36 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · Entrepreneurship#28100K to 300K
- 🇨🇦CA · Entrepreneurship#36100K to 300K
- 🇦🇺AU · Entrepreneurship#36100K to 300K
- 🇺🇸US · Entrepreneurship#8630K to 100K
- 🇰🇷KR · Entrepreneurship#19100K to 300K
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357K to 1.1M🎙 Weekly cadence·112 episodes·Last published 6mo ago - Monthly Reach
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715K to 2.2M🇬🇧14%🇨🇦14%🇦🇺14%+33 more - Active Followers
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214K to 660K
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The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
Dec 8, 2025
1h 16m 25s
How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
Sep 18, 2025
1h 49m 17s
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
Aug 18, 2025
1h 13m 20s
Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)
Jun 16, 2025
1h 15m 54s
Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
May 27, 2025
1h 01m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/8/25 | ![]() The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin✨ | productivitymedia+3 | Andrew Ross Sorkin | New York TimesCNBC+5 | — | productivityAndrew Ross Sorkin+3 | SierraCODE | 1h 16m 25s | |
| 9/18/25 | ![]() How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)✨ | AIleadership+4 | Tobi Lütke | Shopify | — | Tobi LütkeShopify+4 | SierraCODE | 1h 49m 17s | |
| 8/18/25 | ![]() How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)✨ | AI technologyproduct building+4 | Bret TaylorClay Bavor | SierraGoogle+4 | — | AItechnology waves+5 | — | 1h 13m 20s | |
| 6/16/25 | ![]() Building the Savannah Bananas (with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner)✨ | baseballentrepreneurship+3 | Jesse Cole | Savannah BananasBanana Ball | Savannah | Savannah BananasBanana Ball+5 | — | 1h 15m 54s | |
| 5/27/25 | ![]() Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)✨ | fintechacquisition+5 | Zach Perret | PlaidVisa | — | PlaidZach Perret+7 | SierraCODE | 1h 01m 16s | |
| 3/10/25 | ![]() The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)✨ | enterprise salessoftware industry+3 | Bill McDermott | ServiceNowXerox+2 | — | enterprise softwaresales techniques+3 | SierraCODE | 57m 37s | |
| 2/18/25 | ![]() Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)✨ | web developmentAI in business+4 | Guillermo Rauch | Next.jsv0+4 | — | Vercelweb apps+7 | SierraCODE | 57m 59s | |
| 12/2/24 | ![]() How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)✨ | chip architecturelow-power devices+4 | Rene Haas | Apple NewtoniPod+5 | Cambridge, England | ARMchip architecture+6 | Sierra | 1h 14m 25s | |
| 11/11/24 | ![]() Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)✨ | self-guided educationlanguage learning+4 | Luis von Ahn | Duolingo | — | DuolingoLuis von Ahn+5 | SierraCODE | 1h 03m 38s | |
| 10/14/24 | ![]() Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)✨ | open source AIAI models+3 | Clem Delangue | Hugging Face | — | open source AIHugging Face+5 | SierraCODE | 1h 08m 56s | |
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| 8/20/24 | ![]() Joe Montana Interview Live from Modern Treasury Transfer | 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 shares some of the lessons that he learned winning Super Bowls with the 49ers that he applies to his investing career at Liquid 2 Ventures. Joe also goes into their firm’s strategy and performance, finding and investing in dozens of unicorn startups at the seed and pre-seed stage.This interview was recorded live at Modern Treasury’s Transfer conference in May 2024.Acquired’s arena show at Chase Center in San Francisco is just a few weeks away! We hope you can join us. acquired.fm/sfSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 47m 17s | ||||||
| 6/24/24 | ![]() Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski) | 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 million consumers globally, processing two million payments a day. Founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski joins us for one of the most honest and thoughtful discussions we’ve ever had on the show. If you’re a business strategy nerd, it’s a great case study in how to leverage the strengths you have as a startup vs. incumbents, and how to compete against other startups in your space. In Klarna's case: the rapid rise of buy-now-pay-later. Sebastian also takes us into the logic of his aggressive AI strategy for cost reduction, product experience, and payments innovation.Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 19m 39s | ||||||
| 5/24/24 | ![]() The Space Industry in 2024, and How to Build a Satellite Company | 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. Today we are joined by Austin Link, the co-founder and CEO of Starfish Space (where Ben and PSL Ventures are investors!). Austin lays out the state of the space industry today, particularly as it pertains to startups. He and Ben explore what it takes to build a space company, then gets into the specifics of what Starfish Space is building.Starfish Space has created a spacecraft to dock with and reposition satellites. This "space servicing" technology enables their customers to extend the usable lifetime of satellites (unlocking tens of millions of dollars in revenue), or safely dispose of aging satellites to avoid space debris. Starfish's product, the "Otter", uses autonomous navigation software and electric propulsion to move through space and dock with customers' satellites.If you're into physics, outer space, or any sort of "hard tech", tune in! Links:Starfish SpaceSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 19m 11s | ||||||
| 5/6/24 | ![]() The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi) | 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 value chain: the fabless chip companies that design chips and the foundries that manufacture them. Today, we dive into the software that powers it all, the field electronic design automation (EDA). This is essentially the software that enables chip designers to do their jobs, which has changed dramatically with the rise of AI.This interview is with two people who understand that world better than anyone: Aart de Geus, the co-founder and Executive Chair of Synopsys, and Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys’s CEO and President. Aart founded the company in 1986, and was CEO until January 2024 when he handed the reins to Sassine. Synopsys is now worth $80 billion, with virtually every chip company as a customer or partner for everything from AI to 5G to automotive. Aart and Sassine talked with us about the future Moore’s Law, where chip makers are finding efficiencies today, how we got here, plus a bonus section on simulation and their $35 billion acquisition of Ansys. Enjoy!Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 15m 50s | ||||||
| 3/6/24 | ![]() The Scientific Journey Behind Ozempic (with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor) | On our Novo Nordisk episode, we covered the business of Ozempic, the GLP-1 taking the world by storm. On this episode, we dive into the science of the molecule semaglutide (and its predecessor liraglutide) with the world expert on the topic, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen. Lotte is Novo Nordisk’s Chief Scientific Advisor, and led the research group back in the early 1990s that first invented the molecule. A few topics from our conversation:The science behind what is happening in the body that causes weight loss while on OzempicWhat it was like in the 1990s and 2000s believing in a drug for a problem that the rest of the industry (including her own company) had written offHow weight loss was actually a goal from the very start — not just a side effect of diabetes medication like you often read today!Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 00m 21s | ||||||
| 12/3/23 | ![]() Visa Follow-Up and Today’s Payments Ecosystem (with Gaurav Ahuja) | 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 research sources for the Visa episode, and we wanted to bring his insights to you all too. We discuss whether Visa really should be worried about eroding interchange fees, the impact of realtime payments systems, opportunities for startups and whether the Visa / Mastercard duopoly could really be overthrown. Tune in and enjoy!Links:https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/files/Avg_IF_by_PCN.pdfSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 35m 10s | ||||||
| 11/6/23 | ![]() Morgan Housel | 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 last book The Psychology of Money had a huge impact on both of our personal financial philosophies (and by extension Acquired’s!), and Morgan was kind enough to give us an advance copy of his new book launching tomorrow, Same as Ever. It’s equally as good, and maybe even more relevant in the current environment for thinking about what’s not going to change as we cycle through vastly different macro financial environments. Tune in and enjoy!Links:Morgan’s new book Same as EverThe Psychology of MoneyMorgan’s blog on Collaborative Fund and on TwitterMorgan’s new podcast!Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 38m 08s | ||||||
| 9/18/23 | ![]() Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Episode Follow Up | While preparing for our Porsche episode with Doug DeMuro, we had a lot more than Porsche to discuss… but the episode was already over 3 hours! We decided to save the rest for its own episode, released here on ACQ2. Doug helped us understand what’s going on with the car industry supply chain in 2023, the transition to electric vehicles, the car dealership business model, and how most consumer car purchase decisions really get made.We also got to talk with Doug about his business empire. In addition to his YouTube channel with ~5 million subscribers, Doug started a car marketplace called “Cars and Bids”. Earlier this year, Doug took a $37 million investment from The Chernin Group, and Doug walked us through that transaction and what it’s been like going from “indie creator” to a large and more professionalized organization. And of course, there’s some discussion on our Porsche episode together.Links:Cars and Bids!Doug on YouTube and TwitterSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 27m 54s | ||||||
| 8/30/23 | ![]() Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling (with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela) | 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” from A24), and the history + current state of the “visual” branch of generative AI. We cover how they’ve gone to market with both creators and enterprises, the potential for much more radical future use cases, and the company’s recent $141m strategic raise from Google, Nvidia + Salesforce and the context of the current AI fundraising landscape. Tune in!Links:RunwayFollow Cris on TwitterSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 57m 17s | ||||||
| 8/14/23 | ![]() Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller) | 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, and 2) colocating and powering it with stranded energy from some of the harshest and most remote locations on earth.Crusoe’s cloud of course has to compete with (and in many cases exceed) the price/performance curves of cloud incumbents like AWS, Azure and Google in processing AI workloads. And the way it does so is by building data centers literally on top of oil flares (and other wasted energy sources) that otherwise comprise multiple percentage points of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. In other words — methane that previously just got lit on fire is now powering your favorite AI startup’s training workloads!We cover what it actually takes to build and operate a public cloud, the latest Nvidia networking and server innovations and what they mean for GPU data centers, and how to set up a company to pursue something “hard” like this across the team, operations and capital raising fronts. Tune in!Links:Crusoe Energy and Crusoe CloudFollow Crusoe and Chase on TwitterSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 26m 59s | ||||||
| 6/20/23 | ![]() Comparing the Dotcom Crash to Today (with Tom Cowan from TDM) | Every now and then, we come across super interesting and under-the-radar (at least to us!) public markets folks like NZS Capital who make us think differently about the art of investing. TDM is another one of those groups — founded 18 years ago in Australia, they’ve compounded a single, private pool of capital at 26% per annum over nearly two decades. That’s Warren & Charlie territory!TDM recently published a memo comparing the current “post ZIRP bubble” market with what happened in the years following both the dot-com crash and the GFC in 2008. As always, past performance isn’t necessarily predictive of the future, but what happened back then surprised us and might surprise you too. More importantly, it gave us the perfect excuse to sit down with TDM cofounder Tom Cowan and share the conversation with you all. Tune in and learn alongside us!Links:TDM’s 2023 Market MemoThe current BVP Cloud IndexFollow TDM on Twitter or LinkedInSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 13m 13s | ||||||
| 5/9/23 | ![]() Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper | How do you build defensible business value in an era when, as AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli said on our last ACQ2 episode, the “cost of intelligence is going to zero”? Longtime friend of the show Jake Saper and his partners at Emergence Capital have been refining their thesis for this brave new world of Generative AI in B2B, and we sit down with him to discuss. We cover topics including:When do exactly correct answers matter, and when do they not?When are human-in-the-loop systems necessary?When do startups have an advantage vs. incumbents, and vice-versa?Where can companies capture value on a durable basis?When do you need proprietary data in order to be defensible?Whether you’re building or investing in existing businesses from the “pre-AI” era or brand new startups that are native to GPT, this episode has plenty of takeaways you should consider. Tune in!Links:Jake’s recent blog post on Generative AI and B2BFollow Jake on TwitterSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 1h 24m 51s | ||||||
| 4/20/23 | ![]() AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli on the Transforming the Company — and Venture Itself | Since joining AngelList as CEO in 2019, Avlok Kohli has presided over perhaps the most unexpected and astounding transformation in the venture ecosystem: taking AngelList from an SPV provider to a company that is quickly becoming the software platform for the entire industry.Today, AngelList provides investors and founders with the infrastructure they need to launch and scale a startup or fund, and supports over $15B of assets (including David’s own Kindergarten Ventures!). We sit down with Avlok to discuss how it all happened (and happened so fast), and - also unexpectedly and astoundingly - how generative AI is about to transform their entire business and the venture ecosystem again. Tune in!Links:Visit AngelList to get startedFollow Avlok on TwitterSponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra | 59m 48s | ||||||
| 4/13/23 | ![]() Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales | David Hsu has one of the most interesting founders journeys in tech today. After growing up in Silicon Valley, he left to study both philosophy and computer science at Oxford in the UK, then returned immediately afterward to found an internal enterprise tools company. Fast forward to today, and Retool is a multi-billion dollar valuation juggernaut that — almost uniquely for this era — operates at roughly cashflow breakeven while still growing rapidly. On this episode David shares his thoughts on finding product-market fit through sales, the dangers of product-led growth, how to get $1-5 million in ARR with just 5-10 people on the team. Tune in!Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierraLinks:Retool!Follow David H. on Twitter | 1h 07m 38s | ||||||
| 4/7/23 | ![]() Ben and David on My First Million | Ben and David joined Sam and Shaan of "My First Million" to talk about scaling to a large podcast, the company they would like to own, the CEO's you don't want to compete against, and the 100+ year history of Nintendo. If you liked this and want more of Sam and Shawn, subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.Sponsors:Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierraLinks:* Hampton* Wait But Why* Marques Brownlee* Nintendo* NVIDIA------Show Notes:(01:45) - Intro to Acquired(10:00) - How to scale to a big podcast(14:05) - How big do you have to be to be at the top of the business category?(23:55) - What commonalities are there between weird companies?(27:40) - How to tell a real from a fake contrarian(34:45) - Nintendo(37:45) - Which company would you most want to own?(40:45) - Who would you least want to compete against?(52:30) - Business ideas(56:40) - Will you ever sell Acquired?(58:20) - Best ways to make money as a podcast | 1h 20m 31s | ||||||
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