Acquired

Trader Joe's breaks every rule of modern retail. They don't do e-commerce. They don't do d... more

Google faces the greatest innovator's dilemma in history. They invented the Transformer — ... more

In its first six years from 1998 to 2004, Google built one of the greatest products of all... more

It’s finally here! Today we are releasing Acquired’s first “concert film” — the full video... more

We sit down with Jamie Dimon for a live conversation at Radio City Music Hall, covering th... more

We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its or... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, ... more