Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal - acquired.fm
Latest episode: Mon Apr 28 2025
Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
205 total episodes
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- Apr28Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!4mins
Apr21Epic Systems (MyChart)237mins
Mar24Indian Premier League Cricket268mins
Feb24Rolex300mins
Jan27TSMC Founder Morris Chang174mins
Jan21TSMC (Remastered)147mins
Dec16Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)233mins
Nov18IKEA199mins
Oct28Meta377mins
Sep30Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)144mins
Sep18The Mark Zuckerberg Interview88mins
Aug8Chase Center + Summer Update21mins
Jul22Microsoft Volume II288mins
Jun4Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)193mins
Apr22Microsoft Volume I262mins
Mar18Renaissance Technologies187mins
Feb20Hermès247mins
Jan22Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)222mins
Dec18Holiday Special 2023136mins
Nov27Visa223mins
Oct30Charlie Munger66mins
Oct16NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang90mins
Sep6Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)174mins
Aug21Costco180mins
Jul25Nike240mins
Jun27Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)202mins
Jun13Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi97mins
May30Lockheed Martin217mins
May18Spotify CEO Daniel Ek98mins
Apr26Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming135mins
Apr18Short: The Death of Sega68mins
Apr11Nintendo: The Console Wars197mins
Apr4Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business89mins
Mar29Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)199mins
Mar16Nintendo's Origins205mins
Feb21LVMH211mins
Jan25The NFL227mins
Dec19Holiday Special 2022140mins
Dec6Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)114mins
Nov29Enron212mins
Nov15Qualcomm147mins
Oct17Benchmark Part II: The Dinner119mins
Oct4ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis150mins
Sep28Benchmark Part I223mins
Sep6Amazon Web Services163mins
Aug30Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value90mins
Aug16Amazon.com257mins
Aug2From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)115mins
Jul19Walmart180mins
Jun20The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories63mins
Jun6American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)77mins
May19Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)67mins
May16Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)70mins
May12Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity86mins
Apr20Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)131mins
Apr6Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)83mins
Mar28Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)119mins
Mar15Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)112mins
Mar7SONY182mins
Feb22Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)62mins
Feb15The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)102mins
Feb10Peloton138mins
Jan23Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)157mins
Dec21CAA (with Michael Ovitz)110mins
Dec15FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)95mins
Dec87 Powers with Hamilton Helmer62mins
Dec3Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)166mins
Nov3Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)103mins
Oct18Standard Oil Part II142mins
Oct5Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More84mins
Sep22Standard Oil Part I133mins
Sep7TSMC154mins
Aug30Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web399mins
Aug10Andreessen Horowitz Part II174mins
Jul27Andreessen Horowitz Part I125mins
Jul19Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)73mins
Jul6Ethereum183mins
Jun21Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC110mins
Jun7Berkshire Hathaway Part III177mins
May27Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)77mins
May12Berkshire Hathaway Part II181mins
May5Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)79mins
Apr21Berkshire Hathaway Part I190mins
Apr6Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)87mins
Mar24Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)116mins
Mar10Meituan142mins
Feb18The New York Times Company187mins
Feb1Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)56mins
Jan19Bitcoin193mins
Dec17Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers110mins
Dec11Airbnb159mins
Dec10DoorDash179mins
Dec2Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring90mins
Nov23Virgin Galactic107mins
Nov12Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)55mins
Oct28Twitter (with Dick Costolo)84mins
Oct7Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired109mins
Sep30The NBA166mins
Sep9Special: Acquired x My First Million95mins
Sep2Epic Games148mins
Aug25Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)93mins
Jul16Pinduoduo114mins
Jun25Oprah (Harpo Studios)133mins
May26SpaceX164mins
May12Adapting Episode 3: Intel84mins
Apr29Special Episode: Jason Calacanis97mins
Apr15Podapalooza Announcement: Intel5mins
Mar31Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)42mins
Mar20Adapting Episode 1: Canlis48mins
Mar17The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time110mins
Feb18Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)66mins
Jan29WhatsApp111mins
Dec30The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)84mins
Dec19Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)100mins
Dec9TikTok101mins
Nov25Disney, Plus137mins
Oct25The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)99mins
Oct15Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)100mins
Sep26Sequoia Capital (Part 1)111mins
Aug26Google Maps100mins
Aug6The Shopify IPO90mins
Jul22Huawei67mins
Jun27Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)81mins
Jun25The Slack DPO119mins
Jun19The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)81mins
May27The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)123mins
May11The Uber IPO145mins
Apr24The Pinterest IPO103mins
Mar30The Lyft IPO141mins
Feb26Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)75mins
Feb19Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!40mins
Feb3Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank87mins
Jan21Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN87mins
Dec17Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent114mins
Nov25Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)89mins
Nov12Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)91mins
Oct29Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)74mins
Oct2Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)76mins
Sep24Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba99mins
Sep11Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)88mins
Aug20Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO99mins
Aug6Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO78mins
Jul17Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla124mins
Jun18Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)71mins
Jun6Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub89mins
May21Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint86mins
May4Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint79mins
Apr6Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing110mins
Mar26Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO102mins
Mar23Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund93mins
Feb20Season 2, Episode 3: Nest97mins
Feb7Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt79mins
Jan23Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)78mins
Dec18Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special81mins
Dec11Episode 50: Apple - Beats79mins
Dec4Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO77mins
Nov20Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom57mins
Nov7Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO70mins
Oct8Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee68mins
Sep21Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile84mins
Sep18Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)107mins
Aug16Episode 43: The Square IPO80mins
Aug5Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)79mins
Jul26Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson80mins
Jul13Episode 40: Activision Blizzard77mins
Jun21Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market77mins
Jun11"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day20mins
May31Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)81mins
May10Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”80mins
Apr24Episode 36: The LA Clippers70mins
Apr11Episode 35: Oculus83mins
Apr3Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan77mins
Mar13Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)93mins
Mar4Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO89mins
Mar1Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store75mins
Jan24Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec75mins
Jan11Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions79mins
Dec31Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg73mins
Dec16Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz77mins
Dec5Episode 26: Marvel85mins
Nov11Episode 25: The Facebook IPO88mins
Nov2Episode 24: Skype85mins
Oct23Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)69mins
Oct14Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)78mins
Sep27Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman85mins
Sep16Episode 20: Android81mins
Aug29Episode 19: Jet72mins
Aug22Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe71mins
Aug3Acquired Episode 17: Waze67mins
Jul12Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)62mins
Jul5Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey76mins
Jun16Episode 14: LinkedIn68mins
Jun6Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop63mins
May23Episode 12: Snapchat63mins
May9Episode 11: PayPal59mins
Apr27Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America55mins
Mar29Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)50mins
Feb29Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)63mins
Feb3Episode 7: YouTube51mins
Jan19Episode 6: Lucasfilm40mins
Dec14Episode 5: Siri45mins
Nov30Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)68mins
Nov16Episode 3: Twitch54mins
Nov1Episode 2: Instagram43mins
Oct15Episode 1: Pixar38mins