Fortune 500

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2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Ben Gilbert · said 32 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention · from 2:26:16
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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention · from 29:30
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 1 mention · from 42:40
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2024 18 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 5 mentions · from 39:52
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired Jun 4, 2024 · 3 mentions · from 36:46
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired Jan 22, 2024 · 3 mentions · from 5:05
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired Mar 18, 2024 · 2 mentions · from 5:01
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired Dec 16, 2024 · 1 mention · from 43:36
Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 1 mention · from 1:10:57
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired Sep 18, 2024 · 1 mention · from 3:35
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention · from 4:20:16
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Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired Dec 18, 2023 · 4 mentions · from 1:05:07
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired Sep 6, 2023 · 4 mentions · from 1:13:00
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode

Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 1 mention · from 1:56:07
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Apr 22, 2024 positive

Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 1994

Compaq set multiple rapid growth records and became the largest PC maker

“Compaq was the fastest startup to ever hit a hundred million in revenue, then the youngest firm to break into the Fortune 500, then the fastest company to hit a billion in revenue, and by 1994, Compaq was the largest PC maker in the world.”

Ben Gilbert Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:59:53 Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired

Jul 22, 2024 positive

Opinion

Rosenthal: Microsoft counter-positioned against AWS by offering hybrid cloud

“Actually, I would say they had some of it in the development of Azure, because they could say to Fortune 500, we will do hybrid cloud with you, and we can be your trusted partner in a way that AWS couldn't.”

David Rosenthal Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 4:20:16 Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired

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