Ben Gilbert
Ben Gilbert is the co-founder and co-host of Acquired.FM and the Acquired podcast, and serves as a Venture Partner at Pioneer Square Labs. He has founded Acquired and Acquired.FM, both media companies that are still running, and PSL Ventures, a fund that is also still running. His expertise includes podcasting, venture capital, and software engineering.
Ben Gilbert
Ben Gilbert’s had the entrepreneurial bug since he was young, starting with building his high school website and developing apps in his college dorm room. Since then, Ben has worked at several incredible startups, become Co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, Co-host for popular venture capital podcast, Acquired, and was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. Ben attributes much of his success to always “having two careers at once” by working on side projects and being fueled by a sense of accomplishment. In this episode, Ben talks about his first app, SeizeTheDay, that was downloaded over a million times…
Organizations
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Pioneer Square Labs Venture Partner 2024–present, General Partner + Managing Director, PSL Ventures 2021–2023, Co-Founder 2015–2021 · current
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Acquired Co-Founder / Co-Host 2015–present · current
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Acquired podcast Podcast Host · current
Education
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The Ohio State University BSCSE, Computer Science and Engineering, Entrepreneurship
