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Acquired

by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

216 episodes

Podcast overview

About this podcast

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

Episodes216total
Frequencyabout 1.7 episodes per monthCalculated from 216 episodes published between Oct 2015 and Aug 2026.
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Acquired publishes about 1.7 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

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Older episodes of Acquired are available in the paginated archive, sorted from newest to oldest.

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216 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

Latest first
S8 Ep. 1Jan 19, 20213h 6min
Bitcoin

We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best investment of all-time and our biggest...

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Dec 17, 20201h 43min
Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies who often receive the most media attention (see Airbnb and...

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S7 Ep. 8Dec 11, 20202h 32min
Airbnb

Over 13 years after its founding, one of the defining startup companies of the past decade finally makes its public debut — and boy was it...

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S7 Ep. 7Dec 10, 20202h 52min
DoorDash

Live from the scene of its blockbuster IPO, we recount the crazy, roller coaster journey of this "Palo Alto delivery company". From Sand...

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Dec 2, 20201h 24min
Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring

Acquired is live on the scene covering Salesforce's blockbuster $27.7B acquisition of Slack, with the help of the internet's #1 Slack bull...

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S7 Ep. 6Nov 23, 20201h 40min
Virgin Galactic

Live from the 2020 ASCEND Space Conference, Acquired covers the full story behind the most "out there" technology story of the past few...

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Nov 12, 202048 min
Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)

Superstar past guest and Superhuman CEO Rahul Vorha joins us for a deep dive on how Superhuman applies concepts from game design to...

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S7 Ep. 5Oct 28, 20201h 17min
Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

A week before the 2020 US Presidential election, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins us to tell the story of a company that has impacted...

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Oct 7, 20201h 42min
Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

On this special episode of Acquired, we're joined by a master interviewer himself, Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like the Best. We turn...

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S7 Ep. 4Sep 30, 20202h 39min
The NBA

On the eve of the 2020 NBA Finals, we dive DEEP into the history and business model of the league behind the world's 2nd largest and...

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Sep 9, 20201h 28min
Special: Acquired x My First Million

Acquired teams up with the My First Million podcast for a “best of both worlds” crossover episode. First we go deep, “Acquired style”, on...

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S7 Ep. 3Sep 2, 20202h 21min
Epic Games

We go deep behind the "epic" story of a plucky game developer from Cary, North Carolina (by way of Potomac, Maryland) which, after...

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S7 Ep. 2Aug 25, 20201h 26min
Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

We're joined by two very special guests, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and her cofounder, spouse and Eventbrite Chairman Kevin Hartz, to tell...

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S7 Ep. 1Jul 16, 20201h 47min
Pinduoduo

We kick off Season 7 with a bang: Pinduoduo, the incredible five year-old Chinese mashup of "Costco and Disneyland" (as self-described in...

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S6 Ep. 8Jun 25, 20202h 6min
Oprah (Harpo Studios)

We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all-time: Oprah Winfrey, and her...

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S6 Ep. 7May 26, 20202h 37min
SpaceX

On the eve of SpaceX's historic scheduled launch of its first human spaceflight mission — both the first ever by a private company, and the...

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S6 Ep. 6May 12, 20201h 17min
Adapting Episode 3: Intel

When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the microprocessor company. Maybe you also think about about 'Intel Inside' and their...

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Apr 29, 20201h 30min
Special: Jason Calacanis

We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle Jason's journey from a kid porter in...

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S6 Ep. 5Mar 31, 202035 min
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)

On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020’. The memo minces no words,...

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S6 Ep. 4Mar 20, 202041 min
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn’t need stories of M&A and...

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