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Acquired

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Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

#205

The Steve Ballmer Interview

We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Cli... more

02 Jun 2025

2 HR 59 MINS

2:59:20

02 Jun 2025

#204

Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!

A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 ... more

28 Apr 2025

04 MINS

04:25

28 Apr 2025

#203

Epic Systems (MyChart)

What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm i... more

21 Apr 2025

3 HR 57 MINS

3:57:02

21 Apr 2025

#202

Indian Premier League Cricket

When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play imme... more

24 Mar 2025

4 HR 28 MINS

4:28:07

24 Mar 2025

#201

Rolex

Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical dev... more

24 Feb 2025

5 HR 00 MINS

5:00:35

24 Feb 2025

#200

TSMC Founder Morris Chang

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In f... more

27 Jan 2025

2 HR 54 MINS

2:54:56

27 Jan 2025

#199

TSMC (Remastered)

We dive into the unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of... more

21 Jan 2025

2 HR 27 MINS

2:27:50

21 Jan 2025

#198

Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben’s Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all... more

16 Dec 2024

3 HR 53 MINS

3:53:12

16 Dec 2024

#197

IKEA

IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally s... more

18 Nov 2024

3 HR 19 MINS

3:19:19

18 Nov 2024

#196

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life... more

30 Sep 2024

2 HR 23 MINS

2:23:44

30 Sep 2024

#194

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did ... more

18 Sep 2024

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:44

18 Sep 2024

#193

Chase Center + Summer Update

Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”: 1--Tickets are [now ava... more

08 Aug 2024

21 MINS

21:53

08 Aug 2024

#192

Microsoft Volume II

In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft b... more

22 Jul 2024

4 HR 48 MINS

4:48:07

22 Jul 2024

#191

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world tod... more

04 Jun 2024

3 HR 12 MINS

3:12:59

04 Jun 2024

#190

Microsoft Volume I

Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the ... more

22 Apr 2024

4 HR 22 MINS

4:22:29

22 Apr 2024

#189

Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no on... more

18 Mar 2024

3 HR 06 MINS

3:06:39

18 Mar 2024

#188

Hermès

In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over ... more

20 Feb 2024

4 HR 07 MINS

4:07:19

20 Feb 2024

#187

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overt... more

22 Jan 2024

3 HR 42 MINS

3:42:13

22 Jan 2024

#186

Holiday Special 2023

Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition h... more

18 Dec 2023

2 HR 16 MINS

2:16:24

18 Dec 2023

#185

Visa

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, ho... more

27 Nov 2023

3 HR 42 MINS

3:42:51

27 Nov 2023

#184

Charlie Munger

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast inter... more

30 Oct 2023

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:46

30 Oct 2023

#183

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three... more

16 Oct 2023

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:54

16 Oct 2023

#182

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia. We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back... more

06 Sep 2023

2 HR 53 MINS

2:53:41