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Michael Lewis

Author & Financial Journalist · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Lewis is a bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for examining finance, decision-making, and sports in books such as Liar's Poker and Moneyball. Multiple of his books have been adapted into Academy Award-winning and nominated films.

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Everything Michael Lewis said on Acquired that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Michael Lewis argues private companies are much better run than public ones
“I think there's an argument to be made that in any industry where they're both private and public companies, the private companies end up being much better run. And I mean like that mostly bad things happen when companies go public and certainly less pleasant.”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:31:21 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Disclosure
Lewis lacked an ending for his SBF book until FTX collapsed
“With Sam Beckman-Fried, I was a year into it, and I did not know what I was gonna do with it until it blew up”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:03:07 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Insight
Michael Lewis: Book writing does not compound audiences across topics
“The books have a kind of, Market, and it's a big market, biggish market, but it doesn't, I see no evidence that I'm dragging people along with me. I feel like each book feels like another startup, and then I've got to go out and make it happen almost as if I'v…”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 26:15 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Opinion
Lewis: Nike blew its dominance by ditching wholesale retail for direct-to-consumer
“Nike basically blew it, right? They let these, they let, they got rid of their stores. They thought it's all going to be online and on and Hoka roll in”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 2:38:32 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Insight
Michael Lewis: Improvisational risk engages audiences far more than scripted speeches
“Do you know how your heart sinks when someone gets up at a podium with a script, with a speech, and they're gonna read their speech? The audience is waiting for you to get through this thing, because they know nothing's going to happen. Like, whatever's on tha…”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 40:21 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Michael Lewis: Acquired will eventually evolve into doing standalone biographies
“At some point you're gonna wake up and say, you know, we should be doing more biography. We should be doing more people, and if that person is not, you know, is not naturally a huge corporation, you may still, I have a feeling there's more, there's an evolutio…”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 43:05 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Disclosure
Jim Simons personally declined Michael Lewis's pitch for an authorized biography
“Jim Simon's son had a kid in my oldest child's class in high school, and I tried, I approached, I said, look, I can't do it unless you want me to do it. There's no point. And he said like, Dad, just like, no, no, no.”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:44:41 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Opinion
Michael Lewis: Acquired achieves the same narrative grip as long-form books
“You created the environment with the podcast that I tried to create with the book. You grab the listener. Like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere, ah, and teach them about stuff that they don't eve…”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 7:23 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Disclosure
Michael Lewis: I bought Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares in 2008
“I bought it right in the middle of the financial crisis.”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 19:05 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
Disclosure
Michael Lewis reveals he is a minority owner of Rajasthan Royals
“I'm a partial owner of the Rajasthan Royals.”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:40:27 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired

The other half of the tape: Michael Lewis's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 4 episodes on Acquired. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most David Rosenthal 3Mitch Lasky 2Brian Koppelman 1Ben Gilbert 1

Statements about Michael Lewis, by other people (1)

Insight
Gilbert: Acquired's business model works due to privilege, not universal correctness
“I don't think we've figured out a better way to do it. Like, I don't think we figured out the way to do it and everybody else should just snap to our way. It's like, we have an enormous amount of Privileged that we can run a business in this way, and most peop…”
Ben Gilbert Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 2:29:58 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 51m
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