Acquired
Read bullet-point summaries of Acquired on company histories, markets, strategy, founders, and long-term competitive advantage.
Episodes
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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio)
The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia in history. Over a century old, it is uniquely profitable among
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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)
Vanguard is the company that created the first index fund for individual investors in 1975 and today manages over $12 trillion in assets, making it the largest
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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)
Ferrari is one of the most paradoxical companies in the world: it ships only ~14,000 cars a year (about 1/22nd of Porsche's volume), yet has among the highest
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Formula 1 (Audio)
What F1 actually is
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The NFL
Football's origins and the birth of the NFL (1869–1940s)
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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
Acquired is a podcast about great technology companies and the stories behind them, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, which turned 10 years old in
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Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy
Coca-Cola is the ultimate American business story—a $300 billion company built on syrup, sugar, and water that grew up alongside America itself, from the Civil
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Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)
Acquired hosts a landmark live show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, featuring three conversations with iconic New York company CEOs — Jamie Dimon
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Trader Joe’s (Audio)
Joe Coulombe's unlikely path to grocery innovation
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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (audio)
Google is the originator of the AI revolution—and now faces the innovator's dilemma of its own making. The 2017 Transformer paper, published by Google Brain
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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio)
Google's post-IPO era (2004–2015) transformed it from a search "pure play" into a sprawling innovation factory, launching Gmail, Google Maps, Docs, YouTube
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The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank
Jamie Dimon built JP Morgan Chase into the largest bank in the US (over $800 billion market cap, more than twice its nearest competitor) and the most valuable
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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio)
Google began as a Stanford research project in 1996–1997 and became the most profitable company in the US by combining a breakthrough ranking algorithm, a
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The Steve Ballmer Interview
Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and over 34 years helped transform it from a consumer software company into an enterprise juggernaut—and then, after
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Epic Systems (MyChart)
The founder: Judith Faulner