Ben and David on "This Week in Startups" Holiday Special

12/02/21 • 93 min

ACQ2 by Acquired

Ben and David go on "This Week in Startups" with Jason Calacanis for a holiday special!

Discussion includes:

Talking TWIST and All-In this year with everything from politics to weight loss to private jets

Acquired's year and some of Ben and David's biggest insights from episodes

VC, valuations, and crypto investing mechanics

Use cases for crypto, and trying to get Jason (a skeptic) excited

Carveouts: our favorite books, podcasts, and TV shows from this year

Sponsors:

Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24

Ben and David go on "This Week in Startups" with Jason Calacanis for a holiday special!

Discussion includes:

Talking TWIST and All-In this year with everything from politics to weight loss to private jets

Acquired's year and some of Ben and David's biggest insights from episodes

VC, valuations, and crypto investing mechanics

Use cases for crypto, and trying to get Jason (a skeptic) excited

Carveouts: our favorite books, podcasts, and TV shows from this year

Sponsors:

Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24

Previous Episode

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Fireside Chat

We are very excited to bring you a special ACQ2 interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Aside from Joe's well-known work as a Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy-award-winning actor in films like 500 Days of Summer, Inception, and Looper, Joe is also the founder of HITRECORD, a startup which brings creative collaborators together across film, music, books, and more.

Ben sat down with Joe to discuss:

The creator economy’s focus on the finished product vs. the creative process, and how he thinks about this at HITRECORD
The state of the film and TV industry today, amidst the shift to streaming platforms and tech companies as primary distribution channels
What it has been like on set playing Travis Kalanick in Showtime’s upcoming “Super Pumped”

Sponsors:

Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24

Thanks to our good friends at Fika Ventures for setting this conversation up!

Next Episode

Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)

Today we're excited to have a longtime friend of the Acquired family on ACQ2, Rob Meyerson. Rob was the President of Blue Origin for 15 years, and today is an investor and advisor to space industry startups. Ben recorded this interview live at the fantastic aerospace industry conference, ASCEND, where Rob is the Executive Producer. In this interview, we cover:

How Blue Origin started, and what it was like in the early days (spoiler: they weren't yet building rockets!)
Rob’s experience working directly for Jeff Bezos
What’s changed about SpaceX since May of 2020, when we did our Acquired episode on the company
Rob’s theses about what sectors of commercial space are poised for growth in the next few years

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