Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
14 episodes in 2023
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2h 26m Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
In the 2023 Holiday Special of Acquired, co-hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal celebrate major milestones, including Ben joining the podcast full-time, analyze their favorite Season 13 de…
27 statements 9 featured 2 assessments
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3h 43m Visa (Audio) · Acquired
Acquired co-hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal explore the comprehensive business history and economic architecture of Visa, detailing how a chaotic credit card experiment transformed int…
63 statements 16 featured 46 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 6m Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
In an intimate dinner interview recorded shortly before his 100th birthday, legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger joins Acquired co-hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal …
50 statements 16 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 30m NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
In this comprehensive interview on the Acquired podcast, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang details the company's thirty-year journey from a struggling graphics startup to a trillion-dollar…
36 statements 10 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 34m Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Follow Up (Raw Video) · Acquired
Acquired hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal sit down with automotive creator Doug DeMuro to dissect the mechanics of creator-led media, digital marketplace business models, and the techno…
30 statements 9 featured 8 assessments
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2h 54m Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
This episode of Acquired analyzes Nvidia's monumental rise during the generative AI revolution, detailing how its twenty-year convergence of GPU hardware, the CUDA software ecosystem, and fu…
64 statements 14 featured 35 assessments 2 contradicted
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3h 1m Costco (Audio) · Acquired
In this episode of Acquired, hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal examine the history, business model, and corporate ethos of Costco. They trace its evolution from Sol Price's pioneering di…
65 statements 24 featured 53 assessments 4 contradicted
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4h 3m Nike (Audio) · Acquired
Acquired hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal present an exhaustive corporate history of Nike, examining how the brand combined high-risk financial leverage, pioneering performance shoe des…
106 statements 21 featured 78 assessments 5 contradicted
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3h 22m Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
In this episode of Acquired, hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal join automotive expert Doug DeMuro to analyze Porsche's history, spanning its origins, family conflicts, near-bankruptcies,…
64 statements 18 featured 44 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 37m Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
In this in-depth interview on Acquired, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi details his executive journey from Expedia to Uber, explaining how operational discipline, governance restructuring, and su…
23 statements 7 featured 10 assessments
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3h 38m Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
In this deep dive on Acquired, hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace the comprehensive history, technological breakthroughs, and business evolution of Lockheed Martin. The episode anal…
63 statements 18 featured 48 assessments 6 contradicted
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1h 38m Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek joins Acquired in Stockholm to analyze Spotify's strategic evolution from a music streaming pioneer into a unified audio platform spanning podcasts, audiobo…
37 statements 17 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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2h 15m Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
Benchmark venture capitalist Mitch Lasky and principal Blake Robbins join Acquired to dissect the business history, platform economics, and structural evolution of the global video game indu…
41 statements 14 featured 8 assessments 3 contradicted
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3h 20m Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
In this video installment of Acquired Sessions, co-hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal sit down with Founders Podcast creator David Senra to unpack the timeless mental models of history's …
64 statements 21 featured 17 assessments 5 contradicted