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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
S15 Ep. 3Nov 18, 20243h 12min
IKEA

IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company with no direct...

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S15 Ep. 2Oct 28, 20246h 11min
Meta

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually understand....

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S15 Ep. 1Sep 30, 20242h 17min
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… our sold out live show at the Chase Center in...

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Sep 18, 20241h 21min
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented thing: a live conversation in...

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Aug 8, 202421 min
Chase Center + Summer Update

Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in San...

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S14 Ep. 6Jul 22, 20244h 41min
Microsoft Volume II

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

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S14 Ep. 5Jun 4, 20243h 6min
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a billion global customer...

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S14 Ep. 4Apr 22, 20244h 16min
Microsoft Volume I

Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company...

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S14 Ep. 3Mar 18, 20243h 0min
Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an...

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S14 Ep. 2Feb 20, 20244h 0min
Hermès

In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, Hermès sells the absolute...

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