Kim-Mai Cutler -- From Journalist to VC
We sit down with Initialized Capital's Kim-Mai Cutler to talk about her opposite journey from us at Acquired, going from journalist to VC. We riff on how the landscape has evolved from Kim-Mai's paren...
4 Aug 202145min
Managing a Crypto Fund (with Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital)
How on earth do you professionally manage a crypto investment firm? That was the question we wanted to find out, so we dialed up one of the best in the business: Multicoin Capital co-founder and manag...
22 Jul 20211h 17min
Owning Your Own Media Stream (from Collison Conf with Garry Tan)
Ben interviewed Initialized Capital founder and friend of the show, Garry Tan at Collision Conf last month. Garry is of course also a YouTuber, Clubhouse'r, and master of content creation. The good pe...
3 Jun 202122min
Making your customers your secret weapon (with Highspot's Oliver Sharp)
We're joined by Oliver Sharp of Highspot, Seattle's most recent unicorn company (at least at the time of recording!), to talk about how and why to architect everything a software company does around i...
29 Apr 20211h 34min
LP "Expert Call" with Josh Clemente from Levels
We got *awesome* feedback on the recent special episode we did with Levels founder Josh Clemente -- so we asked Josh if he'd join for a follow-up Q+A session on our next LP Call, and he graciously agr...
23 Apr 20211h 11min
The Meituan Bear Case (with Lillian Li)
When the internet’s top China tech analyst Lillian Li posted a great Twitter take (linked below) on our Meituan episode, we knew we had to try to get her on ACQ2 to tell us all more. What’s really goi...
1 Apr 20211h 15min
Modern Treasury interviews Ben & David (and vice versa!)
The very cool (and also very hot! You can read about their recent funding rounds from Benchmark and Altimeter) fintech startup Modern Treasury recently asked if they could interview us for their inter...
18 Mar 202154min
State-of-SaaS and Deep Collaboration (with Jake Saper from Emergence Capital)
Emergence Capital's Jake Saper returns to the LP Show to talk 2021 "state-of-SaaS" and Emergence's Deep Collaboration thesis. We cover how Figma changed the game for embedded collaboration within work...
5 Mar 20211h 9min
