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Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal - acquired.fm
Latest episode: Mon Oct 27 2025
Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
209 total episodes
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Oct27Trader Joe’s208mins
Oct6Google: The AI Company246mins
Aug26Alphabet Inc.251mins
Jul16The Jamie Dimon Interview66mins
Jun30Google: The Origin of Search219mins
Jun2The Steve Ballmer Interview179mins
Apr21Epic Systems (MyChart)237mins
Mar24Indian Premier League Cricket266mins
Feb24Rolex299mins
Jan27TSMC Founder Morris Chang176mins
Jan21TSMC (Remastered)149mins
Dec16Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)232mins- Nov18IKEA201mins
- Oct28Meta379mins
Sep30Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)145mins
Sep18The Mark Zuckerberg Interview89mins- Aug8Chase Center + Summer Update21mins
- Jul22Microsoft Volume II290mins
Jun4Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)195mins
Apr22Microsoft Volume I264mins- Mar18Renaissance Technologies188mins
Feb20Hermès249mins- Jan22Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)224mins
- Dec18Holiday Special 2023138mins
- Nov27Visa224mins
- Oct30Charlie Munger66mins
- Oct16NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang92mins
- Sep6Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)175mins
Aug21Costco181mins- Jul25Nike242mins
Jun27Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)203mins
Jun13Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi98mins
May30Lockheed Martin219mins
May18Spotify CEO Daniel Ek99mins
Apr26Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming137mins
Apr18Short: The Death of Sega69mins
Apr11Nintendo: The Console Wars199mins
Apr4Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business91mins
Mar29Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)200mins
Mar16Nintendo's Origins207mins
Feb21LVMH213mins
Jan25The NFL229mins- Dec19Holiday Special 2022141mins
- Dec6Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)116mins
- Nov29Enron214mins
- Nov15Qualcomm148mins
- Oct17Benchmark Part II: The Dinner121mins
- Oct4ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis140mins
- Sep28Benchmark Part I225mins
- Sep6Amazon Web Services165mins
- Aug30Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value91mins
- Aug16Amazon.com258mins
- Aug2From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)117mins
- Jul19Walmart181mins
Jun20The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories65mins
Jun6American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)79mins
May19Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)69mins
May16Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)72mins
May12Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity88mins
Apr20Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)133mins
Apr6Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)85mins
Mar28Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)121mins
Mar15Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)114mins
Mar7SONY183mins
Feb22Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)64mins
Feb15The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)103mins
Feb10Peloton140mins
Jan23Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)159mins
Dec21CAA (with Michael Ovitz)112mins
Dec15FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)97mins
Dec87 Powers with Hamilton Helmer64mins
Dec3Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)168mins
Nov3Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)104mins
Oct18Standard Oil Part II143mins
Oct5Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More85mins
Sep22Standard Oil Part I135mins
Sep7TSMC155mins
Aug30Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3101mins
Aug10Andreessen Horowitz Part II175mins
Jul27Andreessen Horowitz Part I127mins
Jul19Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)74mins
Jul6Ethereum185mins
Jun21Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC112mins
Jun7Berkshire Hathaway Part III178mins
May27Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)79mins
May12Berkshire Hathaway Part II183mins
May5Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)81mins
Apr21Berkshire Hathaway Part I192mins
Apr6Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)89mins
Mar24Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)118mins
Mar10Meituan144mins
Feb18The New York Times Company189mins
Feb1Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)58mins
Jan19Bitcoin195mins
Dec17Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers111mins
Dec11Airbnb161mins
Dec10DoorDash180mins
Dec2Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring92mins
Nov23Virgin Galactic109mins
Nov12Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)57mins
Oct28Twitter (with Dick Costolo)85mins
Oct7Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired110mins
Sep30The NBA167mins
Sep9Special: Acquired x My First Million96mins
Sep2Epic Games149mins
Aug25Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)94mins
Jul16Pinduoduo115mins
Jun25Oprah (Harpo Studios)134mins
May26SpaceX166mins
May12Adapting Episode 3: Intel86mins
Apr29Special Episode: Jason Calacanis99mins
Mar31Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)44mins
Mar20Adapting Episode 1: Canlis49mins
Mar17The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time111mins
Feb18Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)68mins
Jan29WhatsApp113mins
Dec30The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)86mins
Dec19Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)101mins
Dec9TikTok103mins
Nov25Disney, Plus139mins
Oct25The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)100mins
Oct15Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)102mins
Sep26Sequoia Capital (Part 1)113mins
Aug26Google Maps102mins
Aug6The Shopify IPO92mins
Jul22Huawei69mins
Jun27Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)82mins
Jun25The Slack DPO120mins
Jun19The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)83mins
May27The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)125mins
May11The Uber IPO147mins
Apr24The Pinterest IPO104mins
Mar30The Lyft IPO142mins
Feb26Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)77mins- Feb19Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!40mins
Feb3Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank89mins
Jan21Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN89mins
Dec17Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent116mins
Nov25Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)91mins
Nov12Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)93mins
Oct29Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)75mins
Oct2Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)78mins
Sep24Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba100mins
Sep11Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)89mins
Aug20Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO101mins
Aug6Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO80mins
Jul17Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla125mins
Jun18Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)73mins
Jun6Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub90mins
May21Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint88mins
May4Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint81mins
Apr6Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing111mins
Mar26Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO104mins
Mar23Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund94mins
Feb20Season 2, Episode 3: Nest99mins
Feb7Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt81mins
Jan23Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)79mins
Dec18Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special83mins
Dec11Episode 50: Apple - Beats81mins
Dec4Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO78mins
Nov20Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom58mins
Nov7Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO72mins
Oct8Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee70mins
Sep21Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile86mins
Sep18Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)109mins
Aug16Episode 43: The Square IPO82mins
Aug5Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)81mins
Jul26Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson82mins
Jul13Episode 40: Activision Blizzard78mins
Jun21Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market79mins
May31Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)82mins
May10Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”82mins
Apr24Episode 36: The LA Clippers72mins
Apr11Episode 35: Oculus84mins
Apr3Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan79mins
Mar13Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)94mins
Mar4Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO90mins
Mar1Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store77mins
Jan24Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec76mins
Jan11Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions80mins
Dec31Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg75mins
Dec16Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz79mins
Dec5Episode 26: Marvel87mins
Nov11Episode 25: The Facebook IPO89mins
Nov2Episode 24: Skype87mins
Oct23Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)71mins
Oct14Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)79mins
Sep27Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman87mins
Sep16Episode 20: Android82mins
Aug29Episode 19: Jet74mins
Aug22Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe72mins
Aug3Acquired Episode 17: Waze69mins
Jul12Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)64mins
Jul5Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey78mins
Jun16Episode 14: LinkedIn69mins
Jun6Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop65mins
May23Episode 12: Snapchat64mins
May9Episode 11: PayPal61mins
Apr27Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America57mins
Mar29Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)51mins
Feb29Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)65mins
Feb3Episode 7: YouTube53mins
Jan19Episode 6: Lucasfilm42mins
Dec14Episode 5: Siri46mins
Nov30Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)69mins
Nov16Episode 3: Twitch55mins
Nov1Episode 2: Instagram45mins
Oct15Episode 1: Pixar40mins- Oct1Trailer: What is Acquired?2mins