The Idea Dinner #1 (with Mario Gabriele and Packy McCormick)

Hello ACQ2! Posting the audio recording of our Book Club Zoom session with Will Thorndike from The Outsiders in digestible podcast form. Big thank you to Will and to all of you who made this a really ...

3 Syys 20201h 7min

We dive into everything you need to know about SPACs — what they are, why they're a compelling alternative to IPO/DPOs, and how they might play an even more important role in startup financing going f...

25 Elo 20201h 5min

Hello ACQ2! We heard from several of you that Book Club recordings were hard to digest as Zoom recordings. So we stripped out the audio and are posting it here in podcast form. Thanks to all of you wh...

19 Elo 20201h 18min

Despite many advances in industry transparency over the past ~10 years, much about the actual "jobs of a VC" remains locked inside firm/institutional knowledge and venture's apprenticeship model. With...

6 Elo 20201h 7min

We’re joined by Tock CEO Nick Kokonas to discuss how they’re “arming the restaurateur rebels” versus DoorDash / Uber Eats, in much the same way Shopify has done so for e-commerce merchants versus Amaz...

27 Heinä 20201h 16min

Benchmark General Partner Sarah Tavel joins us for a master class on consumer investing. We start with why invest in consumer at all (given the inherent risks of its "hit-driven nature"), then deep di...

7 Heinä 20201h 3min

Despite many advances in industry transparency over the past ~10 years, much about the actual "jobs of a VC" remains locked inside firm/institutional knowledge and venture's apprenticeship model. With...

10 Kesä 202059min

We're joined by Patrick Campbell, founder & CEO of the world's leading SaaS profit-optimization service ProfitWell, to dive deep on all things pricing and monetization. Patrick began bootstrapping Pro...

21 Touko 20201h 15min