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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.
Categories / tags
TechnologyBusinessInvestingPodcastEnglish

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How often does Acquired release episodes?

Acquired publishes about 1.7 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?

215 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

Latest first
Feb 22, 202256 min
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — to talk about the...

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Feb 15, 20221h 35min
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on each of the Web 1, 2 and 3 eras: Brave...

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S10 Ep. 2Feb 10, 20222h 11min
Peloton

The Peloton journey has been one seriously wild ride. From can’t raise money to one of Tiger Global’s first venture investments, to...

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S10 Ep. 1Jan 23, 20222h 30min
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s not even close!), with the re-recording of...

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S9 Ep. 8Dec 21, 20211h 43min
CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint for A16Z’s upending of Silicon Valley a...

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S9 Ep. 7Dec 15, 20211h 28min
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

Note: This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021, approximately a year before FTX’s subsequent meltdown. The apparent negligence, fraud and...

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Dec 8, 202155 min
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer

You've heard us talk about him every episode for the past two years... but until now most of you have never actually heard us talk to him!...

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S9 Ep. 6Dec 3, 20212h 39min
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to be organizations? How high is the ceiling...

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Nov 3, 20211h 36min
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)

Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project episode with Brinton Johns and Jon...

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S9 Ep. 5Oct 18, 20212h 15min
Standard Oil Part II

We bring the epic saga of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller to a close (for now) with two of history's greatest second acts:...

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