Acquired Cache QA

In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for...

The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global...

Vanguard is the most effective vehicle ever created for participating in the fruits of American capitalism. Today it’s the single largest...

Ferrari is the pinnacle of luxury scarcity — across its entire 79-year history, the company has sold just 330,000 cars at an average price...

Formula 1 is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where...

The NFL is nearly synonymous with America today. Practically nothing is more quintessentially and universally American than tuning in every...

Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical devices for 10-1000x the price of their superior...

Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch), it’s an absolutely fascinating study in...

Why has Acquired — seemingly against all odds — “worked”? It's a puzzling question: episodes are four hours long, they come out...

Coca-Cola is… sugar water. And somehow it’s also America, Christmas, summertime, friendship and happiness. Today we tell the story of how...

Trader Joe's breaks every rule of modern retail. They don't do e-commerce. They don't do delivery. No sales, coupons, or loyalty programs....

Google faces the greatest innovator's dilemma in history. They invented the Transformer — the breakthrough technology powering every modern...

It’s finally here! Today we are releasing Acquired’s first “concert film” — the full video recording of our Radio City live show from this...

In its first six years from 1998 to 2004, Google built one of the greatest products of all time (and certainly the greatest business of all...

We sit down with Jamie Dimon for a live conversation at Radio City Music Hall, covering the incredible journey from his 1998 firing at...

We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called...

We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34...

What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm in rural Wisconsin? And that farm contained the...

When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play immediately (in which case you’re not reading this),...

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video interview we could...