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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.

215 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.

Episodes215total
Frequencyabout 1.7 episodes per monthCalculated from 215 episodes published between Oct 2015 and Jun 2026.
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TechnologyBusinessInvestingPodcastEnglish

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Acquired publishes about 1.7 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

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

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215 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

Latest first
Jun 20, 202256 min
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

When Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brent Beshore asked us to give a talk at their incredible Capital Camp conference, we knew we had to bring...

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Jun 6, 20221h 10min
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, why it’s so important and why now is the...

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May 19, 20221h 0min
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time — Zoom and Veeva Systems — to understand...

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S10 Ep. 8May 16, 20221h 3min
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)

For the final act of the Arena Show, we’re joined by Brooks CEO Jim Weber to tell the amazing story of how he transformed the company from...

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S10 Ep. 7May 12, 20221h 19min
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

We did an Arena Show!! This evening was so big and so special, we had to split it into two episodes for the podcast feed. First up is the...

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S10 Ep. 6Apr 20, 20222h 4min
Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing...

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Apr 6, 20221h 16min
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

We sit down once again with one of the world’s very best strategy thinkers, 7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer — this time joined by his...

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S10 Ep. 5Mar 28, 20221h 52min
Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

He wears signature leather jackets. He can bench press more than you. He makes cars that drive themselves. He’s cheated death — both...

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S10 Ep. 4Mar 15, 20221h 45min
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

We hear a lot these days about hedge funds becoming venture firms, and venture firms becoming hedge funds. But a decade before either of...

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S10 Ep. 3Mar 7, 20222h 55min
SONY

Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — Sony rose to capture the imaginations (and...

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