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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:29:44 Ben Gilbert It hands that context straight to the tools developers already use, whether that's Claude Code or Cursor or Sentry's new agent, Sear, and it automatically finds the root cause and opens the PR for the human to review.
- ▶ 2:47:00 David Rosenthal But before we talk about the other two of Bob's big three acquisitions, Marvel and Lucasfilm, now is a great time to thank our friends at Anthropic, the makers of Claude.
- ▶ 2:47:14 Ben Gilbert And today we are going to share how Claude saved us on recording day
- ▶ 2:48:05 Ben Gilbert So while David and I were trying to sort through, I figured I'd let Claude kind of give it a shot.
- ▶ 2:48:13 Ben Gilbert Along with another annual report that we had showing how the revenue breakdowns actually worked, and Claude untangled the whole thing for us.
- ▶ 2:48:42 Ben Gilbert And Claude figured that out.
- ▶ 2:49:06 Ben Gilbert Uh, which is the clearest example I've ever personally had of Claude being able to solve a problem in the moment
- ▶ 2:49:19 Ben Gilbert So listeners, if you want to try out Fable now, or you just want to learn more, go to claude.ai slash acquired.
- ▶ 4:29:42 Ben Gilbert And to Anthropic, Claude is a truly incredible AI product that thinks with you, just like it thought with me in preparing for this episode, Claude.ai slash acquired.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:49:59 Ben Gilbert Friend of the show, Claude, for reading leases.
- ▶ 3:50:14 Ben Gilbert It didn't warrant real lawyers looking at it, and so I gave it a pass, and I asked Claude, is there anything that's wrong in here?
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:13 David Rosenthal But we're still a couple years away from Anthropic, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, everything today.
- ▶ 2:24:37 Ben Gilbert I look something up in Claude.
- ▶ 2:24:40 Ben Gilbert And then I verify by searching Google that I can find those facts too, if I can't click through the sources on Claude.
- ▶ 2:27:48 David Rosenthal So, Anthropic was working on what would become Claude, and rumors were out there, and people at OpenAI
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:23 Ben Gilbert But before we do that, now is a great time to thank friend of the show, Anthropic, and their AI assistant, Claude.
- ▶ 55:09 Ben Gilbert Yes, so enter Claude.
- ▶ 55:11 Ben Gilbert What makes Claude different for the enterprise is sustained performance on complex tasks.
- ▶ 55:27 Ben Gilbert Claude can handle these multi-hour projects while maintaining context and fewer hallucinations throughout.
- ▶ 55:34 Ben Gilbert Claude is actually the most adopted AI within enterprises when it comes to their API.
- ▶ 55:39 David Rosenthal That's because Claude integrates seamlessly with existing workflows through their MCP connector system.
- ▶ 55:45 David Rosenthal They have pre-built integrations with tools like Jira, GitHub, HubSpot, and Square, plus custom integrations for any internal system, making Claude your central knowledge resource.
- ▶ 55:55 Ben Gilbert So companies like GitLab are already using Claude for coding, and research teams use it to process documents that would normally take weeks to analyze manually.
- ▶ 56:03 David Rosenthal If you're building the next generation of intelligent applications, check out Anthropix Enterprise offerings to see how teams are transforming their workflows with Claude.
- ▶ 56:11 Ben Gilbert And we've got a special offer for Acquired listeners to try out Claude before making the enterprise commitment.
- ▶ 2:25:25 Ben Gilbert VZero is a chat bot that looks like Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini, except that when you give it a
- ▶ 4:05:25 Ben Gilbert My first one, and I swear to God this is unrelated to their sponsorship, is Claude.
- ▶ 4:08:52 Ben Gilbert Anthropic, the makers of Claude, Claude.ai slash acquired.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 26:54 Ben Gilbert Now is also a great time to thank another of our favorite companies, Anthropic, and their AI assistant, Claude.
- ▶ 27:01 David Rosenthal Claude has really transformed our workflow here at Acquired.
- ▶ 27:15 David Rosenthal This is exactly the kind of complex analysis that Claude is excellent at.
- ▶ 27:20 David Rosenthal Ben and I have never had assistance here because we think it's important for us to do the research ourselves, but Claude now gives us the best of both worlds.
- ▶ 27:27 David Rosenthal It's an extra set of hands that we have full control and visibility into what it's doing and how.
- ▶ 27:33 Ben Gilbert So where Claude is especially great for me is extended thinking mode.
- ▶ 27:36 Ben Gilbert When I asked it to analyze JP Morgan's strategy through multiple financial crises, I could watch Claude's reasoning through each decision point step by step.
- ▶ 27:44 David Rosenthal And it has full context by connecting to our entire ten-year base of knowledge here at Acquired through something called MCP, which you might have heard about, the Model Context Protocol.
- ▶ 28:04 Ben Gilbert And Claude is built by Anthropic with a laser focus on accuracy and trustworthiness, which is exactly what we need.
- ▶ 28:11 David Rosenthal If you want to start using Claude yourself or for your organization, go to claude.ai slash acquired, and they've got a special offer for acquired listeners, half-price Claude Pro for three months, which gets you access to all the features…
- ▶ 28:25 Ben Gilbert So whether you're preparing for your own high-stakes meetings, interviews, or conversations, or you just need an AI you can trust with serious work, Claude thinks with you, not for you.
- ▶ 28:34 Ben Gilbert That's Claude.ai slash acquired.
- ▶ 1:04:38 Ben Gilbert The makers of Claude.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:53 Ben Gilbert But before we tell the story of the building of the best business model of all time, now is the perfect time to thank a new friend of the show, Anthropic, and their AI assistant, Claude.
- ▶ 1:13:07 David Rosenthal So as we were doing our research for this episode, looking through decades of interviews, SEC filings, technical papers, Claude was an awesome research partner.
- ▶ 1:13:19 David Rosenthal I was asking Claude a bunch of questions about early Google financials,
- ▶ 1:13:22 David Rosenthal And it kept giving me numbers that I thought were wrong, but the numbers it was giving me were consistent, so I went back and I checked against the numbers in the book I'd been using.
- ▶ 1:13:30 David Rosenthal It turns out that Google actually restated their early financials, and Claude was all over it, so Claude actually saved me from making a somewhat meaningful error later in this episode.
- ▶ 1:13:41 Ben Gilbert Yeah, now I wish we had Claude for all, what, 200 of our other episodes.
- ▶ 1:13:48 Ben Gilbert Claude's extended thinking mode in my research, especially analyzing Google's S-one, which gave me a bunch of great insights that we'll share later in the episode.
- ▶ 1:13:57 David Rosenthal This type of research is where Claude really shines compared to, well, traditional web search.
- ▶ 1:14:01 David Rosenthal Claude can analyze hundreds of pages of documents simultaneously, and now with its connection to Google Workspace, it can pull insights from files in Google Drive, check Gmail, and search the latest information, all while maintaining…
- ▶ 1:14:15 Ben Gilbert And Claude is built by Anthropic, so you know it has a focus on being helpful, harmless, and honest.
- ▶ 1:14:28 David Rosenthal Plus, Claude's new Opus IV is widely regarded as the world's best coding model.
- ▶ 1:14:33 David Rosenthal So as you can imagine, we talk to a lot of engineers doing what we do, and we keep hearing over and over again from developers that Claude is their favorite model.
- ▶ 1:14:52 David Rosenthal Claude thinks with you, not for you.
- ▶ 1:14:59 David Rosenthal Our thanks to Claude and Anthropic.
- ▶ 3:37:27 Ben Gilbert To Anthropic, the makers of Claude, an excellent AI assistant that I used a ton in prepping for this episode.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:19 Ben Gilbert He started Next.js, which is one of the world's most popular open source frameworks used by folks like Walmart, The Verge, Nike, Hulu, Anthropics, Claude, the list goes on.
- ▶ 2:07:45 David Rosenthal Anthropic is the team behind Claude, and whether you're running a business today or flying solo, Claude isn't just another AI tool.
- ▶ 2:07:53 David Rosenthal It's becoming the central operating system for how forward-thinking companies work.
- ▶ 2:07:59 Ben Gilbert Claude actually helped us create this sponsor read.
- ▶ 2:08:02 Ben Gilbert We, uh, fed it a few past sponsor reads as examples, and it came back with basically this before a little bit of tweaking from David and I.
- ▶ 2:08:10 David Rosenthal This itself is a pretty great demonstration of how Claude can be useful and took less time than running upstairs from my studio to grab coffee.
- ▶ 2:08:18 Ben Gilbert What makes Claude different is the quality.
- ▶ 2:08:20 Ben Gilbert It handles the hard stuff, writing and debugging code to build software, analyzing hundred page documents, managing complex multi-step projects, but more importantly, it does them well.
- ▶ 2:08:30 Ben Gilbert Claude is designed to be more accurate, more trustworthy, and tasteful than any AI you've ever tried.
- ▶ 2:08:36 David Rosenthal Think of Claude as that impossibly organized coworker who knows every project, has read every document, and can find that email from six months ago.
- ▶ 2:08:46 Ben Gilbert Claude connects to everything.
- ▶ 2:08:48 Ben Gilbert Your CRM, calendar, email, project tools, internal docs, Claude unifies them all into one place through something called MCP, the Model Context Protocol, which everyone seems to be talking about this week.
- ▶ 2:09:00 Ben Gilbert Claude can build any MCP connection you need,
- ▶ 2:09:05 Ben Gilbert Instead of juggling tools, Claude becomes your command center, pulling data from everywhere, spotting patterns across all your software, and surfacing insights that you would never find manually.
- ▶ 2:09:20 David Rosenthal Snowflake uses Claude to answer key business questions with just English instead of writing SQL.
- ▶ 2:09:25 David Rosenthal Zoom feeds their meeting recordings into Claude to automatically create summaries and action items, turning hour-long calls into clear next steps.
- ▶ 2:09:33 Ben Gilbert Yeah, if you're ready to stop switching between tools and start using AI as your business hub, get started at claw.ai slash acquired.
- ▶ 2:09:41 Ben Gilbert That's C-L-A-U-D-E dot AI slash acquired, and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 2:58:11 Ben Gilbert The makers of Claude.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:42:14 Ben Gilbert One is llama, and this is the family of foundational models that Meta has developed, and these are competitive with OpenAI and Anthropix Claude and Google Gemini, etc.