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Acquired

by 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.

120 episodes

Podcast overview

About this podcast

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

Episodes120total
Frequencyabout 1.6 episodes per monthCalculated from 120 episodes published between Mar 2020 and Jun 2026.
Categories / tags
TechnologyBusinessInvestingPodcastEnglish

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How often does Acquired release episodes?

Acquired publishes about 1.6 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

Where can I find old episodes of Acquired?

Older episodes of Acquired are available in the paginated archive, sorted from newest to oldest.

How many episodes of Acquired are available?

120 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

Latest first
S7 Ep. 3Sep 2, 20202h 21min
Epic Games

We go deep behind the "epic" story of a plucky game developer from Cary, North Carolina (by way of Potomac, Maryland) which, after...

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S7 Ep. 2Aug 25, 20201h 26min
Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

We're joined by two very special guests, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and her cofounder, spouse and Eventbrite Chairman Kevin Hartz, to tell...

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S7 Ep. 1Jul 16, 20201h 47min
Pinduoduo

We kick off Season 7 with a bang: Pinduoduo, the incredible five year-old Chinese mashup of "Costco and Disneyland" (as self-described in...

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S6 Ep. 8Jun 25, 20202h 6min
Oprah (Harpo Studios)

We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all-time: Oprah Winfrey, and her...

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S6 Ep. 7May 26, 20202h 37min
SpaceX

On the eve of SpaceX's historic scheduled launch of its first human spaceflight mission — both the first ever by a private company, and the...

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S6 Ep. 6May 12, 20201h 17min
Adapting Episode 3: Intel

When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the microprocessor company. Maybe you also think about about 'Intel Inside' and their...

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Apr 29, 20201h 30min
Special: Jason Calacanis

We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle Jason's journey from a kid porter in...

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S6 Ep. 5Mar 31, 202035 min
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)

On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020’. The memo minces no words,...

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S6 Ep. 4Mar 20, 202041 min
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn’t need stories of M&A and...

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S6 Ep. 3Mar 17, 20201h 43min
The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

5 years and 100+ episodes into Acquired, there’s been one question we get asked more than any other: what are the best acquisitions of...

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