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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The New York Times comes up
Home Depot: The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 since IPO (Audio)
- ▶ 2:19:21 David Rosenthal Wrote for the New York Times.
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:17 David Rosenthal Which he sent copies to Eisner, the board, and then the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the LA Times.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:51:29 David Rosenthal The New York Times actually writes this, that quote, sales of Snow White products might be America's path out of the depression.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:00 David Rosenthal There's a quote in the New York Times in the lead story about this merger.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:45:44 David Rosenthal That night, the New York Times asks Davis for his comment on all this, which, by the way, you couldn't design better drama, especially during the NFL offseason to, like, keep America interested in football.
- ▶ 1:45:56 David Rosenthal The New York Times asks Davis to comment, and he responds, quote, this is something I've been aware of, and I anticipated the probability, but you don't make threats at a time like this.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:34 Ben Gilbert Our last episode was with Andrew Ross Sorkin, founder of the New York Times Dealbook, host of CNBC's Squawk Box, and author of 1929.
- ▶ 1:23:35 Ben Gilbert The media business model of splitting the commercial activity from the editorial is a societal benefit that we all benefit from, from publications like the New York Times.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:11 Ben Gilbert David, those books on the shelf behind you from Penguin Publishing, they sell through Shopify, the New York Times store, Shopify.
- ▶ 2:40:11 David Rosenthal So Fred Franzia dies in, uh, twenty-twenty-two, and the New York Times runs a big obituary about him.
- ▶ 2:40:19 David Rosenthal In which they quote Zach Gabel, who's a sommelier and host of the Vine Pair podcast and has been in the industry for a long time.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:25 David Rosenthal Spoiler alert, a couple years later, Astro Teller, who would take over running Google X after Sebastian Thrun left, he would get quoted in the New York Times in a profile of Google X that the gains to Google's core businesses in search and…
- ▶ 1:53:15 Ben Gilbert There's actually this great New York Times Magazine story that ran in 2016 about it, and I remember reading the whole thing with my jaw on the floor, like,
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:56 Ben Gilbert You know, let's say the New York Times has done a specific deal with Ford, then in a real-time basis.
- ▶ 2:08:05 David Rosenthal They should just type New York Times.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17 Ben Gilbert The Radio City Show also had a second act, a late-night talk show, where we had conversations with the CEO of the New York Times, Meredith Cobit-Levian, and the chairman of IAC, Barry Diller, plus some cameos from around the acquired…
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:12 David Rosenthal So Larry goes off, and of course he's collaborating with Sergey on this, and as they think about it, they realize that, ah, actually there's sort of a fundamental flaw in what they were planning for this annotation system, which is that…
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:39:33 David Rosenthal There is this really awesome New York Times article in the last couple months talking about this dynamic, how all the other luxury houses over the past couple years, you know, during the post-COVID craziness, really raised prices, and…
- ▶ 4:37:40 David Rosenthal There's a great New York Times piece, uh, before the Apple Watch that quotes a source at Apple as saying that Johnny Ive was bragging around, uh, around the company about how the forthcoming watch from Apple was gonna destroy the Swiss…
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:35 Ben Gilbert And it got, like, tens of millions of views, and it got picked up by Forbes and Fortune and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:59 Howard Schultz But you couldn't even get a New York Times in Seattle in 1982, 83.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 34:11 David Rosenthal Jim writes an op-ed in the New York Times denouncing the Vietnam War and saying, like, yeah, he's, you know, sort of part of the Defense Department, but, like, not everybody in the Defense Department is for the war.
- ▶ 34:23 Ben Gilbert Which is so naive, thinking you can write an op-ed in the New York freaking Times
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38 Ben Gilbert That's right, listeners, today we tell the oldest story we have ever told here on Acquired, older than Standard Oil or The New York Times.
- ▶ 43:22 Ben Gilbert Right, same story as the New York Times.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21:33 Ben Gilbert Well, in February of twenty-twenty-one, after the clinical trial finishes on semaglutide for weight loss, so for a week OV to hit the market in the US, the New York Times runs a story and just calls it a game-changer.
- ▶ 2:21:45 Ben Gilbert They say, for the first time, a drug has been shown to be so effective against obesity that patients may dodge many of its worst consequences, including diabetes.
- ▶ 2:50:02 Ben Gilbert Most people know, I read on the cover of the New York Times that Ozempic is a breakthrough, and I heard about it at the Oscars because a joke was made on stage.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:53 David Rosenthal From Astro Teller, who ran Google X at the time, and still does, in a New York Times piece, where he says that the gains from Google Brain during this period, I don't think this even includes DeepMind, just the gains from the Google Brain…
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:26:58 Ben Gilbert It's so obvious in media, it's becoming obvious in universities, but be the New York Times or be acquired, but don't be the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:25 Ben Gilbert So next random lightning round topic, you were on the board of the New York Times.
- ▶ 1:15:38 Dara Khosrowshahi It was a really interesting time at the New York Times because they were
- ▶ 1:18:12 David Rosenthal The Times also made a very explicit bet on scale of quality content.
- ▶ 1:18:48 Dara Khosrowshahi There was absolutely a view of the management, and the board agreed, and I have to be careful, because it was a boardroom, and it's confidential, et cetera, which is, if there's going to be a top global brand for quality news, that should…
- ▶ 1:19:05 Dara Khosrowshahi Like, why, why would it not be the New York Times?
- ▶ 1:19:27 David Rosenthal For news, I think it was a really unique leap that the, that the Times made.
- ▶ 1:19:41 Dara Khosrowshahi New York Times isn't necessarily doing that, right?
- ▶ 1:20:01 Ben Gilbert Yeah, I mean, there's a graveyard in the middle between the independent publisher with a low-cost structure and the New York Times, and there's not much in between.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 10:24 Ben Gilbert When I start reading the New York Times many times a day, and going deep into many of the sections, I'm certainly not going to log into Facebook.
- ▶ 10:46 Ben Gilbert Because the New York Times is not a place where you go to find out if people are talking about something.
- ▶ 11:51 Ben Gilbert I had wanted to read Made in Japan, because I'd heard it was amazing, but as I looked back at, like, trademark acquired episodes, TSMC, the New York Times, like, I just didn't think it would be one of those, and it very clearly, especially…
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40 Ben Gilbert Ben has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Rich Barton, Meredith Kopitlevian of the New York Times, Pat Gelsinger of Intel, and John Collison, and Many, many more.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 11:33 Jason Calacanis It was pretty heady stuff, because I wound up being on the cover of the New York Times on Charlie Rose, and they wrote a feature story about me for 8000 words in the New Yorker.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 22:20 David Rosenthal There's this amazing New York Times article from 1995.
- ▶ 22:25 David Rosenthal Why the New York Times was covering politics of Silicon Valley venture firms, I don't really know,
- ▶ 22:34 David Rosenthal So in this article, New York Times quotes an anonymous source.
- ▶ 27:21 David Rosenthal And Bob in particular, you know, he's quoted in the New York Times talking about this.
- ▶ 2:21:22 David Rosenthal They wanted to run acquired, but they instead decided to go build the New York Times.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 12:20 Ben Gilbert They're like, 95% about the retail business, and they'll talk about things like the relationship with employees, and the big New York Times piece that came out in 2015, and they'll talk about the relationship with the warehouse workers, or…
- ▶ 2:18:42 David Rosenthal 16 maybe New York Times article that came out where they reported that it was AWS and Apple got very upset about it.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 30:26 Ben Gilbert Which is like what we saw in the New York times family or yeah.
- ▶ 1:53:26 Ben Gilbert Kind of reminds me of the New York times during that era too, right?
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 53:21 Ben Gilbert We did an episode on the New York Times a couple years ago, and while every mid-sized newspaper in the US was going bankrupt thanks to disruption brought by the internet, the New York Times became gigantic and a healthier business than…
- ▶ 53:35 Ben Gilbert And the Times saw the idea to be sort of the one national brand and one of a few trusted global brands in the space.
- ▶ 54:20 Ben Gilbert The New York Times is truly a technology company at this point.
- ▶ 55:51 Ben Gilbert and I and some microphones, and the New York Times can have that market.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:19 Katherine Boyle I think that is, if you read the recent reports from the New York Times about how they're trying to kind of curtail their Twitter use, because they've realized that it's completely
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:20 Ben Gilbert It is fresh off his full page profile in the New York Times this weekend.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:10 Ben Gilbert In the New York Times in 1983, there was an article
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 51:03 Michael Ovitz We got a love letter in the New York Times.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 21:37 Packy McCormick And I realized like very early on, cause I had friends who were, I remember a New York times article came out about the fact that really top quality investment bank analysts were getting their PE offers way, way earlier.
- ▶ 1:00:22 David Rosenthal oh, the Wall Street Journal, they did it so right, the New York Times was wrong, and it's like, yeah, this is the dirty secret.
- ▶ 1:30:48 Ben Gilbert And you have the very best writers from the New York Times or Forbes or Wall Street Journal that are just like, I could go make five to 10 times as much and have a much more independent lifestyle with control over my life.
- ▶ 1:35:06 Packy McCormick A couple of things that happened around that time, like me and Ben from Composer wrote this piece on Excel that got picked up, I think, by two separate New York Times articles and got to the top of Hacker News and all of that kind of stuff.
- ▶ 3:03:20 Ben Gilbert I mean, we want to be very intentional that, like, this is profiling the history and strategy of a company the way that we would the New York Times or Standard Oil or, you know, Amazon.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:50 Ben Gilbert Very similar to the New York Times story in that respect, where the money flowed through the male lineage.
- ▶ 1:14:48 David Rosenthal They have affiliate links on the Wirecutter.
- ▶ 2:21:50 Ben Gilbert And the New York Times hates Facebook.