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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.

#208

Google: The AI Company

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

06 Oct 2025

4 HR 06 MINS

4:06:38

06 Oct 2025

#207

Alphabet Inc.

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

26 Aug 2025

4 HR 11 MINS

4:11:33

26 Aug 2025

#206

The Jamie Dimon Interview

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

16 Jul 2025

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:02

16 Jul 2025

#205

Google: The Origin of Search

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

30 Jun 2025

3 HR 39 MINS

3:39:30

30 Jun 2025

#204

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

#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 26 MINS

4:26:29

24 Mar 2025

#201

Rolex

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

24 Feb 2025

4 HR 59 MINS

4:59:45

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 56 MINS

2:56:26

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 29 MINS

2:29:56

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 52 MINS

3:52:44

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 21 MINS

3:21:26

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 25 MINS

2:25:52

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 29 MINS

1:29:52

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 50 MINS

4:50:15

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 15 MINS

3:15:06

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 24 MINS

4:24:37

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 08 MINS

3:08:47

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 09 MINS

4:09:27

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 44 MINS

3:44:20

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 18 MINS

2:18:31

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 44 MINS

3:44:59

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 32 MINS

1:32:02

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 55 MINS

2:55:49