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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

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S14 Ep. 1Jan 22, 20243h 35min
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable...

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S13 Ep. 5Dec 18, 20232h 9min
Holiday Special 2023

Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acquired, we cozy up to the fire to do our...

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S13 Ep. 4Nov 27, 20233h 36min
Visa

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that...

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Oct 30, 20231h 6min
Charlie Munger

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in his 99 years on Earth....

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Oct 16, 20231h 23min
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company,...

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S13 Ep. 3Sep 6, 20232h 47min
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 in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up:...

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S13 Ep. 1Jul 25, 20233h 54min
Nike

Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on...

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S12 Ep. 6Jun 27, 20233h 15min
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

Nobody’s perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazine advertisement, they managed to get...

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Jun 13, 20231h 30min
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and asked him to hang out for a...

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S12 Ep. 5May 30, 20233h 30min
Lockheed Martin

Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team of aviation...

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