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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 31:18 Ben Gilbert And here's a great quote from our friend Ben Cohen at The Wall Street Journal in a piece that he wrote.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 4:30:59 David Rosenthal To Robbie Whelan at The Wall Street Journal, who has a book on Disney coming out later this year.
- ▶ 4:31:04 David Rosenthal Also to Ben Fritz and Emily Nelson at The Wall Street Journal.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:15 David Rosenthal Roy has a great quote that he would tell the Wall Street Journal many years later.
- ▶ 3:31:36 David Rosenthal In early 1958, the Wall Street Journal runs a front page story about Disney's unique business model, and this was one of the most fun things to discover in our research.
- ▶ 3:32:01 David Rosenthal And this article in the Wall Street Journal is where the famous Disney flywheel illustration comes from.
- ▶ 3:32:28 David Rosenthal Buy a Disney Studio artist as an illustration for this Wall Street Journal piece.
- ▶ 3:32:34 David Rosenthal Disney confirmed this for us when we were visiting them in the archives, and then we asked the Wall Street Journal to pull the original piece out of their archives.
- ▶ 3:32:56 Ben Gilbert I will say the word flywheel never appears in the Wall Street Journal article.
- ▶ 3:33:02 Ben Gilbert But it was like the journal saying, hey, Disney, help us with some kind of illustration that makes this point that you have a wholly unique new business model in the media landscape.
- ▶ 3:39:31 David Rosenthal After all the success of Disneyland and all the ballyhooing about the flywheel and everything in the Wall Street Journal article, I mean, they really went whole hog on this one.
- ▶ 4:10:42 David Rosenthal I mean, the Wall Street Journal wrote that article in 1958.
- ▶ 4:29:00 Ben Gilbert To Mike Miller, former Wall Street Journal editor, and now frequently helping us with acquired episodes.
- ▶ 4:29:21 David Rosenthal Well, speaking of the Wall Street Journal, thank you to Ben Cohen and Emily Nelson over there.
- ▶ 4:30:26 Ben Gilbert Past episode corrections, behind the scenes photos, and it's where you can vote on future episode topics, plus we give away a little hint each time, acquired.fm slash email, and we are writing in the Wall Street Journal.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:39:37 Ben Gilbert The first one is many of you will notice that we started writing in the Wall Street Journal.
- ▶ 3:39:49 Ben Gilbert Also on Vanguard, we just did one two days before this episode came out that came out in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal.
- ▶ 3:40:03 David Rosenthal Earlier in my career, I worked at the journal on the business side, not as a writer.
- ▶ 3:40:08 David Rosenthal Like, the idea that someday I and we would have a regular column in the journal would have blown my twenty-four-year-old mind.
- ▶ 3:40:16 Ben Gilbert So listeners, if you are not subscribed to the journal and you would like to read our columns, you can go sign up at acquired.fm slash wsj and we will get you sent special links that are free for you to read.
- ▶ 3:40:32 Ben Gilbert Even if you already have a Wall Street Journal subscription, sign up at acquired.fm slash WSJ if you just want to be notified when we do have a new piece so you don't miss it.
- ▶ 3:46:03 Ben Gilbert As always, to Mike Miller, the former Wall Street Journal editor who has been really helpful in crafting these episodes with us.
- ▶ 3:46:11 Ben Gilbert David, while we're on the topic of the Wall Street Journal, I know you have one.
- ▶ 3:46:18 David Rosenthal Author of the intelligent investor column in the journal, and one of the most prolific authors on the entire fund space, and of course, Vanguard and Jack Bogle throughout his life.
- ▶ 3:46:32 Ben Gilbert Man, the Wall Street Journal party continues.
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:56:17 David Rosenthal To Stephen Wilmot, who covers European autos at the Wall Street Journal, and wrote a great piece breaking down how the weightless work at Ferrari.
- ▶ 3:57:34 Ben Gilbert To Mike Miller, good friend of the show, former editor at Wall Street Journal, who really helped us research and construct this episode.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:30 David Rosenthal Well, first off, we owe a huge thank you to Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, who are the sports editors over at the Wall Street Journal, and just recently published, I think the best business history book of Formula One called The…
- ▶ 4:24:48 David Rosenthal Similarly, on my end, thank you again to Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg at The Wall Street Journal, authors of The Formula, truly the best business history book on F-One out there.
- ▶ 4:26:29 Ben Gilbert To Mike Miller, former Wall Street Journal editor, who helped us think through a lot of the big beats on the story on this one.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:18 David Rosenthal I worked briefly at the Wall Street Journal, and then I became a venture capitalist.
- ▶ 1:51:22 Ben Gilbert The Wall Street Journal loves to write about it.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 48:25 David Rosenthal Bolt of inspiration that he has from another article he reads, this time in the Wall Street Journal.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:30:37 Ben Gilbert So the ink to me comment on this, they commented to the Wall Street Journal on AOL's decision.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 26:37 Steve Ballmer I pick up the Wall Street Journal and I read that IBM's divorcing us.
- ▶ 29:11 Steve Ballmer I pick up the Wall Street Journal and I read that IBM's divorcing us.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:23 Ben Gilbert It was slower than its main rivals, and this is from the Wall Street Journal, in adopting the technology and skeptical about whether it would work.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:16:26 David Rosenthal Our friend Ben Gohan over at the Wall Street Journal, who wrote the great piece on Acquired a few months back, texted us, what was this, two weeks ago, maybe?
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:44 David Rosenthal We both had kids, um, the Wall Street Journal wrote about us.
- ▶ 14:44 Ben Gilbert The second thing is, uh, if, if you pull the chart back up again, you can see the Wall Street Journal article in May in that insane, uh, you know.
- ▶ 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.
Chase Center + Summer Update (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:46 David Rosenthal My second daughter was born at the end of April, and then the Wall Street Journal article about us came out, I think like two weeks later, so it's just been a whirlwind.
- ▶ 3:56 Ben Gilbert It's been one of these things, people have asked, what is the impact on the Wall Street Journal profile?
- ▶ 5:06 Ben Gilbert So all of the goodness that came from the WSJ piece was then massively amplified over the course of weeks and months because we just stayed the number one podcast in this self-fulfilling prophecy way across both giant podcasting platforms.
- ▶ 5:29 Ben Gilbert 317,000 new subscribers or followers, depending on whether you're using Apple or Spotify's parlance, have followed the show since the Wall Street Journal piece went live.
- ▶ 6:14 David Rosenthal Ben Cohen, who wrote it at the journal, is an excellent journalist.
- ▶ 6:22 David Rosenthal Column at the journal that this was part of.
- ▶ 7:38 Ben Gilbert The Wall Street Journal is the exact right audience to join the rest of you.
- ▶ 7:44 Ben Gilbert WSJ subscribers are among the most well-educated, thoughtful business people in the world who love nerding out on this stuff.
- ▶ 7:52 Ben Gilbert We're delighted to have anybody here who just found out because you read the WSJ.
- ▶ 7:56 David Rosenthal The other thing that was just so surprising about this, hell, I used to work at the Wall Street Journal a long, long time ago, briefly, early in my career, so I identify with it deeply and love the publication and was so glad they were…
- ▶ 10:02 Ben Gilbert So a PR person emailed me, how did you pitch that piece to the journal?
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:02:45 Ben Gilbert The Wall Street Journal estimated in 2020 that there's about a 120,000 of the combined Birkin and Kelly created each year.
- ▶ 3:14:58 Ben Gilbert David, as I mentioned earlier, in 2020, the Wall Street Journal estimated that about a 120,000 Birkin and Kelly bags were made in that year.
- ▶ 4:03:10 David Rosenthal Joanna Stern had a great quote about this, the wall street journal, but she was interviewed by Ben Thompson recently and
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31:32 Ben Gilbert The Wall Street Journal has this great quote, the scientific foundation for treating obesity as a disease rather than a lifestyle problem was solidified in the mid-nineteen nineties when researchers discovered that fat tissues release…
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:17 David Rosenthal You could argue maybe Wall Street Journal, but
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:52 David Rosenthal And so, um, I think it's the Wall Street Journal calls up
- ▶ 2:07:02 Ben Gilbert So, and here's the one twinge of a smoking gun on Skilling, of why he was quitting, that a Wall Street Journal reporter sort of unearthed in a conversation with him.
- ▶ 2:14:06 David Rosenthal The Wall Street Journal starts running stories about LJM,
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:17 David Rosenthal I was working at the Wall Street Journal at this time and like, oh man.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:50:10 Ben Gilbert So, according to a 2018 Wall Street Journal article, they reported that before fees, the 20 11 fund was sitting on a 25 X on that five hundred and fifty million.
- ▶ 2:54:13 Ben Gilbert In 2018, when that Wall Street Journal piece came out, their holding in Uber was worth eight billion dollars, so that alone would have sixteen-xed the fund.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 24:21 Howard Marks So in those days, the Wall Street Journal used to run a box on the first page whenever something would crap out showing the losses in a certain category, and we had lots of companies where you lost more than 90% from the high to the low.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44:57 Ben Gilbert And the other thing to point out about them identifying books is there's this seminal Wall Street Journal piece about the company in 1996 that drives a lot of traffic.
- ▶ 1:55:53 Ben Gilbert And by the way, the 1996 Wall Street Journal piece that did wake the world up to this was titled Wall Street Wiz finds niche selling books on the internet.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 29:38 David Rosenthal Man, I was working at the Wall Street Journal a few years before, and like, we were like, thank God we're owned by News Corp, you know, like, otherwise, if Dow Jones were still independent, like the Post was at that point in time, there…
- ▶ 40:04 David Rosenthal I feel the same way thinking back on my time at the Wall Street Journal, even though I was on the business side, not writing, like I know exactly what you're talking about with that style of journalists.
- ▶ 40:15 David Rosenthal Like the people who were the managing editors, the deputy managing editors, the section editors at the journal at the time, like they were those people.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:15 Hamilton Helmer This will really date me, but I remember when IBM entered the PC business, Apple took out a full-page ad in, what was it, the Wall Street Journal or something?
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:43 David Rosenthal She writes an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying that she completely disagreed with Spotify and the music streaming industry and that she believes that everything about the way streaming is happening is hurting artists.
- ▶ 1:17:24 David Rosenthal Taylor had written the op-ed in the Wall Street Journal back in July, so before this, everybody's kind of on edge, like, what's gonna happen here?
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:14 David Rosenthal Well, I mean, that was the secret when I was at the Wall Street Journal, like, uh, and this was in the days of, like, paid content was such a thing, and it was, everybody thought,
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:00:27 David Rosenthal Most people who pay for the journal, it's their companies that are paying for the journal.
- ▶ 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.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:20:39 David Rosenthal And I think about not all the big tech companies, but, again, to pick on Facebook, like, this really seems to, on the outside, to be the case with Facebook right now and, like, the Facebook files and everything going on with the Wall…
Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- ▶ 53:42 Michael Mauboussin So in other words, each of us is going to write, you know, a 200 page, 200 word Wall Street Journal article dated 20, 22 as to why this turned out badly.