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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired May 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:34 Ben Gilbert Today, they run the workflows behind more than 85% of the Fortune 500, over ninety-five billion workflows a year.

Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired Apr 14, 2026 · 1 mention

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 1 mention

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

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

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

  • ▶ 3:35 David Rosenthal They partner with startups and small companies like us, like you would be, Ben, all the way up to the largest enterprises in the Fortune 500.

Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:20:16 David Rosenthal 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.

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired Jun 4, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:46 Ben Gilbert So, for listeners, uh, Howard's told this elsewhere, but you spoke at the Microsoft CEO Summit, you recounted this story to, you know, the Fortune 500 CEOs, and, um, Bill Gates III, you know, Microsoft founder, comes up to you afterwards…
  • ▶ 52:56 Ben Gilbert Morgan dot com slash acquired to learn more and discover more payment solutions powering growth for your business across every industry from startups to the fortune 500.
  • ▶ 1:35:46 Ben Gilbert Over 85% of the Fortune 500 runs on them, and they have quickly become one of the world's most important enterprise technology vendors.

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 39:52 David Rosenthal If you're a JPMorgan payments customer, whether you're a startup or a fortune 500, you can access their payments partner network.
  • ▶ 1:22:33 Ben Gilbert Over 85% of the Fortune 500 runs on them,
  • ▶ 1:59:53 Ben Gilbert 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.
  • ▶ 3:03:51 David Rosenthal And that meant selling to the C-suite at global fortune, 500 companies, most of whom did not use computers.
  • ▶ 3:05:02 David Rosenthal A business transformation task for the global fortune 500.

Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired Mar 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:01 David Rosenthal It's not just the Fortune 500, too.
  • ▶ 59:59 Ben Gilbert Over 85% of the Fortune 500 runs on them, and they have quickly joined the Microsofts and the NVIDIAs as one of the most important enterprise software companies in the world today.

Hermès (Audio) · Acquired Feb 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:59 David Rosenthal Over 85% of the Fortune 500 runs on them, and today they are the 76th largest company in the world by market cap.

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired Jan 22, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:05 David Rosenthal And it's not just the Fortune 500.
  • ▶ 1:10:06 Ben Gilbert ServiceNow, as many of you know, is the cloud-based platform that automates and manages workflows across the whole enterprise, making everything about the way a company or organization works actually work better for 85% of the Fortune 500.
  • ▶ 1:12:54 Ben Gilbert And like Novo Nordisk, it turned out that singularly focusing on eliminating suffering from just one pervasive worldwide disease, in this case not diabetes, but repetitive manual office work, that was a path to becoming a one hundred…

Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired Dec 18, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:07 David Rosenthal It would have been odd for Fortune 500 to work with us before recently.
  • ▶ 1:06:03 Ben Gilbert And sort of our fun task for next year, which I'm excited to unveil some of the stuff we're doing, will be to bring that custom thing that we're able to do with these small companies and create native content for the medium and do other…
  • ▶ 1:10:31 Ben Gilbert And I think we figured out a nice balance to be able to work with Fortune 500 as sort of a scale platform and also to be in business, both investing and on a sponsorship basis for their go to market with growth stage companies.
  • ▶ 1:11:44 Ben Gilbert And, you know, we just spent 10 minutes talking about how we're evolving the franchise and working with Fortune 500 and, you know, how we're going to be doing more investing together and all this stuff.

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired Sep 6, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:00 Ben Gilbert But let's say you are an arbitrary company in the Fortune 500 that is not a technology company, and my god, do you not want to miss the boat on generative AI, and you've got a data center of your own, well, NVIDIA has a DGX for you.
  • ▶ 1:33:58 Ben Gilbert But, the bet, especially with all these Fortune 500, is that there are going to be GPT-like experiences in everyone's private applications, in a zillion other public interfaces.
  • ▶ 2:21:17 David Rosenthal Fortune 500 CIOs aren't making buying decisions if none of what you just said isn't true.
  • ▶ 2:33:46 David Rosenthal But this most recent couple months in this quarter for Nvidia has shown that, put all that aside, Fortune 500 are adopting this stuff.

Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:56:07 Ben Gilbert Oh, and there's a bunch of things we didn't even talk about, like all the Fortune 500 that are calling them to say, start a joint venture with me to create a dot com.
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