Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire 2026-08-10 · 273m Read →
The Walt Disney Company 2026-06-22 · 271m Read →
Vanguard 2026-05-18 · 228m Read →
Ferrari 2026-04-13 · 239m Read →
Rolex 2026-03-05 · 291m Read →
Costco 2026-03-04 · 173m Read →
Formula 1 2026-03-02 · 270m Read →
The NFL 2026-01-27 · 248m Read →
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) 2025-12-15 · 158m Read →
Coca-Cola 2025-11-24 · 234m Read →
Trader Joe’s 2025-10-27 · 198m Read →
Google Part III: The AI Company 2025-10-06 · 236m Read →
Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan) 2025-10-01 · 1m Read →
Google Part II: Alphabet 2025-08-26 · 242m Read →
The Jamie Dimon Interview 2025-07-16 · 60m Read →
Google Part I: Origins of Search 2025-06-30 · 209m Read →
The Steve Ballmer Interview 2025-06-02 · 169m Read →
Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall! 2025-04-28 · 4m
Epic Systems (MyChart) 2025-04-21 · 227m Read →
Indian Premier League Cricket 2025-03-24 · 258m Read →
TSMC Founder Morris Chang 2025-01-27 · 168m Read →
TSMC (Remastered) 2025-01-21 · 150m
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story) 2024-12-16 · 224m Read →
IKEA 2024-11-18 · 193m Read →
Meta 2024-10-28 · 371m Read →
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) 2024-09-30 · 137m Read →
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview 2024-09-18 · 81m Read →
Chase Center + Summer Update 2024-08-08 · 22m Read →
Microsoft Volume II 2024-07-22 · 282m Read →
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) 2024-06-04 · 187m Read →
Microsoft Volume I 2024-04-22 · 256m Read →
Renaissance Technologies 2024-03-18 · 180m Read →
Hermès 2024-02-20 · 241m Read →
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) 2024-01-22 · 216m Read →
Holiday Special 2023 2023-12-18 · 130m Read →
Visa 2023-11-27 · 216m Read →
Charlie Munger 2023-10-30 · 67m Read →
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang 2023-10-16 · 83m Read →
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) 2023-09-06 · 167m Read →
Nike 2023-07-25 · 234m Read →
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) 2023-06-27 · 195m Read →
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi 2023-06-13 · 90m Read →
Lockheed Martin 2023-05-30 · 211m Read →
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek 2023-05-18 · 91m Read →
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming 2023-04-26 · 129m Read →
Short: The Death of Sega 2023-04-18 · 61m Read →
Nintendo: The Console Wars 2023-04-11 · 191m Read →
Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business 2023-04-04 · 83m Read →
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) 2023-03-29 · 192m Read →
Nintendo's Origins 2023-03-16 · 199m Read →
LVMH 2023-02-21 · 205m Read →
The NFL 2023-01-25 · 229m
Holiday Special 2022 2022-12-19 · 133m Read →
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) 2022-12-06 · 108m Read →
Enron 2022-11-29 · 206m Read →
Qualcomm 2022-11-15 · 140m Read →
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner 2022-10-17 · 113m Read →
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis 2022-10-04 · 132m Read →
Benchmark Part I 2022-09-28 · 216m Read →
Amazon Web Services 2022-09-06 · 157m Read →
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value 2022-08-30 · 83m Read →
Amazon.com 2022-08-16 · 250m Read →
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) 2022-08-02 · 109m Read →
Walmart 2022-07-19 · 173m Read →
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories 2022-06-20 · 57m Read →
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) 2022-06-06 · 71m Read →
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) 2022-05-19 · 61m Read →
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) 2022-05-16 · 64m Read →
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity 2022-05-12 · 80m Read →
Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) 2022-04-20 · 125m Read →
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) 2022-04-06 · 77m Read →
Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006) 2022-03-28 · 113m Read →
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) 2022-03-15 · 106m Read →
SONY 2022-03-07 · 175m Read →
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 2022-02-22 · 56m Read →
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) 2022-02-15 · 95m Read →
Peloton 2022-02-10 · 132m Read →
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) 2022-01-23 · 151m Read →
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) 2021-12-21 · 104m Read →
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele) 2021-12-15 · 89m Read →
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer 2021-12-08 · 56m Read →
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) 2021-12-03 · 159m Read →
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital) 2021-11-03 · 96m Read →
Standard Oil Part II 2021-10-18 · 135m Read →
Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More 2021-10-05 · 77m Read →
Standard Oil Part I 2021-09-22 · 127m Read →
TSMC 2021-09-07 · 141m Read →
Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3 2021-08-30 · 93m Read →
Andreessen Horowitz Part II 2021-08-10 · 167m Read →
Andreessen Horowitz Part I 2021-07-27 · 119m Read →
Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko) 2021-07-19 · 66m Read →
Ethereum 2021-07-06 · 177m Read →
Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC 2021-06-21 · 104m Read →
Berkshire Hathaway Part III 2021-06-07 · 170m Read →
Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone) 2021-05-27 · 71m Read →
Berkshire Hathaway Part II 2021-05-12 · 175m Read →
Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China) 2021-05-05 · 73m Read →
Berkshire Hathaway Part I 2021-04-21 · 184m Read →
Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente) 2021-04-06 · 81m Read →
Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt) 2021-03-24 · 110m Read →
Meituan 2021-03-10 · 135m Read →
The New York Times Company 2021-02-18 · 181m Read →
Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin) 2021-02-01 · 50m Read →
Bitcoin 2021-01-19 · 186m Read →
Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers 2020-12-17 · 103m Read →
Airbnb 2020-12-11 · 153m Read →
DoorDash 2020-12-10 · 172m Read →
Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring 2020-12-02 · 84m Read →
Virgin Galactic 2020-11-23 · 101m Read →
Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) 2020-11-12 · 49m Read →
Twitter (with Dick Costolo) 2020-10-28 · 77m Read →
Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired 2020-10-07 · 102m Read →
The NBA 2020-09-30 · 159m Read →
Special: Acquired x My First Million 2020-09-09 · 88m Read →
Epic Games 2020-09-02 · 141m Read →
Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz) 2020-08-25 · 86m Read →
Pinduoduo 2020-07-16 · 107m Read →
Oprah (Harpo Studios) 2020-06-25 · 126m Read →
SpaceX 2020-05-26 · 158m Read →
Adapting Episode 3: Intel 2020-05-12 · 78m Read →
Special: Jason Calacanis 2020-04-29 · 91m Read →
Podapalooza Announcement: Intel 2020-04-15 · 5m
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha) 2020-03-31 · 36m Read →
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis 2020-03-20 · 41m Read →
The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time 2020-03-17 · 103m Read →
Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone) 2020-02-18 · 59m Read →
WhatsApp 2020-01-29 · 105m Read →
The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries) 2019-12-30 · 78m Read →
Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis) 2019-12-19 · 93m Read →
TikTok 2019-12-09 · 95m Read →
Disney, Plus 2019-11-25 · 131m Read →
The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack) 2019-10-25 · 92m Read →
Atari (with Nolan Bushnell) 2019-10-15 · 94m Read →
Sequoia Capital (Part 1) 2019-09-26 · 105m Read →
Google Maps 2019-08-26 · 94m Read →
The Shopify IPO 2019-08-06 · 84m Read →
Huawei 2019-07-22 · 61m Read →
Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra) 2019-06-27 · 74m Read →
The Slack DPO 2019-06-25 · 112m Read →
The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky) 2019-06-19 · 75m Read →
The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins) 2019-05-27 · 117m Read →
The Uber IPO 2019-05-11 · 139m Read →
The Pinterest IPO 2019-04-24 · 96m Read →
The Lyft IPO 2019-03-30 · 134m Read →
Instagram Revisited (with Emily White) 2019-02-26 · 69m Read →
Special: Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details! 2019-02-19 · 41m Read →
ARM & SoftBank 2019-02-03 · 81m Read →
ESPN 2019-01-21 · 80m Read →
Tencent 2018-12-17 · 107m Read →
Netflix (Part 2) 2018-11-25 · 83m Read →
Netflix (Part 1) 2018-11-12 · 85m Read →
Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina) 2018-10-29 · 67m Read →
Behance (with Scott Belsky) 2018-10-02 · 69m Read →
Alibaba 2018-09-24 · 92m Read →
Recode (with Kara Swisher) 2018-09-11 · 81m Read →
The Sonos IPO 2018-08-20 · 93m Read →
The Xiaomi IPO 2018-08-06 · 72m Read →
Tesla 2018-07-17 · 117m Read →
The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly) 2018-06-18 · 65m Read →
GitHub 2018-06-06 · 82m Read →
T-Mobile / Sprint 2018-05-21 · 80m Read →
PowerPoint 2018-05-04 · 73m Read →
Spotify’s Direct Listing 2018-04-06 · 103m Read →
The Dropbox IPO 2018-03-26 · 96m Read →
SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund 2018-03-23 · 86m Read →
Nest 2018-02-20 · 91m Read →
Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt 2018-02-07 · 73m
Zappos (with Alfred Lin) 2018-01-23 · 71m
2017 Holiday Special 2017-12-18 · 75m
Apple - Beats 2017-12-11 · 73m
The Stitch Fix IPO 2017-12-04 · 70m
Qualcomm - Broadcom 2017-11-20 · 50m
The Atlassian IPO 2017-11-07 · 64m
Blue Bottle Coffee 2017-10-08 · 62m
HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile 2017-09-21 · 78m
AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast) 2017-09-18 · 101m
The Square IPO 2017-08-16 · 74m
Opsware (with Michel Feaster) 2017-08-05 · 73m
Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson 2017-07-26 · 74m
Activision Blizzard 2017-07-13 · 70m
Whole Foods Market 2017-06-21 · 71m
"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day 2017-06-11 · 20m
SoundJam (iTunes) 2017-05-31 · 74m
BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of” 2017-05-10 · 74m
The LA Clippers 2017-04-24 · 64m
Oculus 2017-04-11 · 76m
The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan 2017-04-03 · 71m
Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!) 2017-03-13 · 86m
The Snap Inc. IPO 2017-03-04 · 82m
The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store 2017-03-01 · 69m
P.A. Semi + AuthenTec 2017-01-24 · 68m
Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions 2017-01-11 · 72m
The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg 2016-12-31 · 67m
Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz 2016-12-16 · 71m
Marvel 2016-12-05 · 79m
The Facebook IPO 2016-11-11 · 81m
Skype 2016-11-02 · 79m
NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit) 2016-10-23 · 63m
Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips) 2016-10-14 · 71m
Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman 2016-09-27 · 78m
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