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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 4 mentions

Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired Oct 27, 2025 · 2 mentions

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:37 Ben Gilbert If you want more Acquired, check out our interview show, ACQ-II.
  • ▶ 5:43 Ben Gilbert We, uh, sat down with Toby Lutke, the founder and CEO of Shopify, about how AI has changed his life and where he thinks it will go from here, so search ACQ-II in any podcast player.
  • ▶ 2:13:32 David Rosenthal We just had Toby on ACQ two to talk about everything going on in AI and everything that has happened at Shopify in the six years now, since we covered the company on acquired.

Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired Apr 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:15 Ben Gilbert If you want more Acquired between each monthly episode, check out ACQ two, our interview show where we talk to founders and CEOs who are building businesses in areas that we've covered on the show to go a little bit deeper.
  • ▶ 4:27 Ben Gilbert Search ACQ two in any podcast player.
  • ▶ 3:56:24 Ben Gilbert You've also got lots of interviews available on ACQ too.

Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired Mar 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

Rolex (Audio) · Acquired Feb 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:34 Ben Gilbert And if you want more Acquired between monthly episodes, check out ACQ-II, our interview show where we talk to founders, CEOs, and investors who are building businesses in areas that we've covered on the show.
  • ▶ 5:07 Ben Gilbert Search ACQ-II in any podcast player.
  • ▶ 4:59:47 Ben Gilbert Listen to ACQ too, because we won't have another episode for another month.

TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired Jan 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:25:07 Ben Gilbert But the fact that there was an architecture, as we talked about on our ACQ-II episode with Renee, uh, from ARM,

Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired Dec 16, 2024 · 1 mention

IKEA (Audio) · Acquired Nov 18, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:16 Ben Gilbert Well, listeners, after this episode, come discuss it with us on Slack, and check out ACQ-II, our second show, where we just had Louise Vaughan on as a guest.
  • ▶ 3:44 Ben Gilbert ACQ-II available in any podcast player.
  • ▶ 3:21:31 Ben Gilbert Check out ACQ-II with Louise Vaughan from Duolingo.
  • ▶ 3:21:35 Ben Gilbert Find ACQ-II in any podcast player, and seriously, I'm sending it to anyone I know running a consumer startup.

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 1 mention

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired Sep 18, 2024 · 1 mention

Chase Center + Summer Update (Audio) · Acquired Aug 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:36 Ben Gilbert Occasionally we will follow that up with an interview with the protagonist after we've had a chance to really do our thing, but that kind of leaves us with a whole bunch of opportunity to do great interviews, but just that are not quite…
  • ▶ 13:16 Ben Gilbert And we've got several other public company CEOs lined up that we're going to be doing on ACQ too soon.
  • ▶ 13:32 Ben Gilbert ACQ-II is the place to tune in for those as they come out.

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired Jun 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:14:49 Ben Gilbert So check out ACQ two, lots more interviews there, and I know the backlog, and it's only getting better from here, and you can imagine that having a great piece in the Wall Street Journal and hitting number one on Apple and Spotify, which…

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:55 Ben Gilbert If you want more from David and I, you should check out our second show ACQ two, where we interview founders, investors, and experts often as a deeper dive into topics we cover on the main show.

Hermès (Audio) · Acquired Feb 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired Jan 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:21 Ben Gilbert And if you want more from David and I, you should check out our second show, ACQ Two, where we interview founders, investors, and experts, often as follow ups to the topics on these episodes.

Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired Dec 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:32 Ben Gilbert We like having the founders on ACQ too, so we can kind of learn about how they're building their companies.
  • ▶ 1:08:27 Ben Gilbert And so there's no big announcement or anything, but that's the thing to share with the Acquired community is I've been writing these little angel checks into probably ten-ish of our sponsors at this point and ACQ-II guests and companies…

Visa (Audio) · Acquired Nov 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired Oct 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired Oct 16, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28:25 Ben Gilbert You should check out ACQ too, which is available at any podcast player.
  • ▶ 1:28:40 Ben Gilbert ACQ-II has become the place to get more from David and I, and we've just got some awesome episodes coming up that we are excited about.

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired Sep 6, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:32 Ben Gilbert If you want more of David and I, check out our interview show, ACQ-II.
  • ▶ 3:36 Ben Gilbert Our next few episodes are about AI, with CEOs leading the way in this world we are talking about today, and a great interview with Doug DeMuro, where, ah, we wanted to talk about a lot more than just Porsche with him, but, ah, you know, we…
  • ▶ 1:01:46 David Rosenthal Which we talked about a lot with Chase Lockmiller on our ACQ-II episode with him from Crusoe.

Costco (Audio) · Acquired Aug 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:00:44 Ben Gilbert Look for ACQ-II if you want to learn more about AI in any podcast player, and check out the Slack.

Nike (Audio) · Acquired Jul 25, 2023 · 2 mentions

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired Jun 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired Jun 13, 2023 · 2 mentions

Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired May 30, 2023 · 5 mentions

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired May 18, 2023 · 3 mentions

Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired Apr 26, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:00 Ben Gilbert Well, listeners, as you know, we have an interview show called ACQ Two.
  • ▶ 2:14:42 Ben Gilbert If you want to hang out with us more, come check out ACQ-II.
  • ▶ 2:14:45 Ben Gilbert It's where all of our interviews are happening with founders, investors, and basically all of our interviews going forward we're going to be putting over on ACQ-II, which is really becoming known as the Acquired Interview Show.

Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired Mar 29, 2023 · 3 mentions

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