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Acquired Podcast

@AcquiredFM89k followers

Every company has a story. Acquired tells the definitive history and strategy of the world's greatest companies. Hosted by @gilbert and @djrosent.

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1Aug 27, '25This is what Google Maps looked like on launch day in 2005. It’s uh... missing some countries.264×4.1M3.6k183452
2Apr 20, '25Tomorrow.64.9×998k95623139
3Jun 5, '25View post on X41.1×632k1.9k104606
4Oct 10, '25Geoffrey Hinton, father of deep learning (right) at age 31, with Chris Riesbeck (left). La Jolla, CA.31.7×487k61534128
5Oct 30, '23Today: Charlie Munger, in his first longform podcast interview ever.27.1×416k864113221
6May 10, '24Acquired is the #1 show on @ApplePodcasts across all categories. Holy.23.7×365k2.1k72218
7Jun 6, '25By popular demand, here's the PowerPoint that Steve sent us the night before recording:23.4×359k45528502
8May 21, '21In 1956 Warren Buffett retired at the age of 26 with a net worth of $175k (~$1.7m today). Why did Buffet retire so early and how did he return to become the greatest investor of al20.9×02.5k592927
9Sep 10, '23What would it take to compete with NVIDIA at this point?18.9×290k45086201
10Jun 4, '252000-2001: "Bill and I went through a year where we didn't speak." (!)16.4×251k82447391
11Jul 11, '24Announcement: We're doing an arena show... in San Francisco! September 10th. Chase Center. With Mark Zuckerberg. Huge thank you to our friends at @jpmorgan for finding a venue big 13.7×211k1k41105
12Aug 20, '23Tomorrow...13.5×207k6041354
13Jun 3, '24Tomorrow.13.4×206k7312228
14Jun 29, '25Tomorrow.11.9×182k8212530
15Mar 1, '23New listeners often ask us what episode to start with. Here are the top 10 by all-time downloads: 1. Amazon Pt 1 2. TSMC 3. AWS 4. Walmart 5. Berkshire Pt 1 6. Benchmark Pt 1 7. NV10.7×165k64144330
16Jun 1, '25Tomorrow.9.8×151k1.4k3447
17Mar 17, '24Tomorrow.9.1×140k7952256
18Feb 19, '24Tomorrow.9.0×138k4831526
19Nov 1, '23Oh, hello :)7.7×119k6182267
20Feb 21, '23Now in your podcast players: our most luxurious episode ever. 🥂👝🕺7.7×119k2381631
21Sep 21, '25.@tobi has been running a keylogger and auto-screenshotting his computer every 10 minutes for the last 15 years. That's a crazy person move, and a wild dataset to have on yourself.7.4×114k56037388
22Sep 17, '24Tomorrow.6.5×100k1.4k2745
23Feb 24, '25In your podcast player now!6.4×99k3161731
24May 29, '23Tomorrow.6.3×97k272814
25Apr 21, '24Tomorrow.5.7×88k8283232
26Oct 31, '23Amazing how power laws dominate everyone's returns. Even Charlie Munger.5.7×87k3035245
27Jan 24, '25Hopped a quick flight for next week's episode...5.6×86k1.2k2217
28Mar 18, '25When you're trying to host a keynote pregame show and you have to pause for a Denny's delivery.5.1×78k60060117
29Sep 11, '24What an incredible night. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we'd do an arena show with @finkd, @eldsjal, and @emilychangtv... plus @iammiketaylor live!! Huge thank you to @j4.9×75k6973136
30Oct 29, '25Trader Joe's business strategy, laid out publicly on their website:4.4×68k33112115
32Oct 15, '23Stopped by Nvidia HQ for a chat! Episode drops tomorrow.4.1×64k43746
33Oct 20, '25Happy 10 Years :) 🥳3.9×60k3521610
34Oct 26, '25Tomorrow.3.9×60k7441125
35Apr 23, '24Founders today: "We'll be profitable eventually." Bill Gates at IPO: "We have literally never had an unprofitable year."3.8×59k5316582
36Nov 28, '23Rest in peace Charlie. We're grateful that we got to spend a (very special) little bit of time with you. Thank you for the wisdom and the memories. ❤️❤️3.7×57k1.2k497
37Jun 22, '21After growing Amazon into a trillion-dollar empire, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO next week. In Prime Day spirit, let's look back on what made Amazon so successful - as shared3.6×034984222
38Apr 24, '25This is how desperate Apple was in the early 2000s.3.5×54k681849
39Jul 30, '24Well that's a crazy sight.3.4×53k5822519
40Jan 21, '24Tomorrow: our first healthcare episode ever. 𝘈𝘴𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵® (𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦) 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵3.4×52k255515
41Feb 23, '24It will not surprise you that this dinner ran nearly 5 hours.3.2×49k484515
42Jan 26, '25Tomorrow.3.1×48k7293738
43Nov 17, '24Tomorrow.3.1×47k688176
44Mar 23, '25Tomorrow.3.0×46k4111615
45Nov 26, '23Tomorrow.3.0×46k23889
46Aug 25, '25Tomorrow.3.0×45k7312325
47Apr 9, '21*Wakes up* *Checks Apple Podcasts charts* 🤯‼️2.8×05542050
48Oct 5, '25Tomorrow.2.8×43k5541034
49Oct 28, '24There has been one company founded in the last 20 years worth more than a trillion dollars. And that episode is in your podcast players now. (Also yes, it is indeed 6+ hours.)2.7×42k3602939
50Jul 25, '23"Beating the competition is relatively easy. But beating yourself is a never ending commitment." (Nike, 1977)2.6×40k3917553
51Jul 22, '25This video perfectly lays out Jamie Dimon's "fortress balance sheet" strategy and why you need to be prepared for the worst. Insanely, it is from 2006, two years before the 2008 fi2.6×40k33837294
52Jun 7, '24A never-before-told story about Steve Jobs, from @HowardSchultz:2.6×40k23528128
53Mar 16, '22The @altcap story of how they won Snowflake's Series C deal (at a mere $175m valuation!) is crazy. "[We] wrote a bug report of the 10 bugs we found and sent it to the founders."2.5×04382483
54Apr 23, '24Microsoft's cap table at IPO. Bill, Paul, and Steve owned 84.7% (!) of the company.2.5×38k2762968
55Feb 15, '24Whoa whoa whoa.2.4×37k4391524
56Aug 26, '25In your podcast players now. (Finally!)2.4×36k3132024
57Dec 25, '242024 was obviously a crazy year for us. We looked at our analytics and as you'd imagine, all of our most-listened to episodes ever were released this year. Microsoft, Hermès, Starb2.4×36k4132671
58Jul 21, '24Tomorrow: Volume II.2.3×35k4811225
59Jun 21, '21Altos Ventures is playing a different game than everyone else in VC. And it’s working. They are “early stage investors” that owned 21% of Roblox at IPO! We were lucky to have the t2.3×028430133
60Jun 4, '24In your podcast players now:2.3×35k2841710
61Jul 24, '23Tomorrow.2.2×34k317110
63Mar 18, '24The highest-performing investment firm ever. ...and quite possibly the first use of machine learning in business history. In your podcast players now:2.0×31k2902045
64Apr 22, '24In your podcast players (and personal computers!) now:2.0×31k2461422
65Feb 20, '24In your podcast players now. 🏇👜1.9×30k3101711
66Apr 1, '25In your podcast players now:1.9×29k357159
67Jul 15, '25Stopped by Times Square on the way to the theater... thanks @Spotify!1.9×29k524106
68Jun 26, '23Tomorrow...1.8×28k23783
69Jul 16, '25Insane, ridiculous night. Can't thank all 6,000 of you enough for coming. What a wild ride this has been. Huge thank you to our guests Jamie Dimon, Meredith Kopit Levien, and Barry1.8×27k345208
70Jul 12, '25Acquired NYC week begins. Thanks to everyone for running with us in Central Park!1.7×26k348612
71Feb 23, '25Tomorrow.1.7×26k313108
72Dec 15, '21The episode you've all been waiting for... a day after his congressional hearings we sat down with the man, the myth, the legend @SBF_FTX. Together with our good friend @mariogabri1.7×02603450
73Nov 21, '23No episode this week. Can't wait to tell the full story... in a decade or so. :)1.7×26k25111
74Jun 30, '25How Google became Google. In your podcast players now.1.7×26k3141919
75Apr 25, '25View post on X1.6×25k25058
76Mar 19, '24Jim Simons, age 37.1.6×25k2921521
77Sep 4, '24First airport billboard... does this mean we are technically an enterprise software company now??1.6×24k29125
78Sep 2, '25In case anyone's looking for 8 hours of "how did we get here" on Google... boy do we have you covered :)1.5×24k239921
79Feb 18, '20The wait is over. Acquired returns with Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined by the very best person in the world to tell it - @Sequoia’s Global Managing Partner @dougleone1.5×02313050
80Nov 1, '23This is — by far — the greatest sentence anyone has ever uttered on Acquired.1.5×23k263224
81Apr 25, '25View post on X1.5×22k238510
82Oct 7, '25The AlexNet team: @ilyasut, @geoffreyhinton, and Alex Krizhevsky. 2013.1.4×22k326850
83May 17, '24Amazing exchange in the Acquired Slack.1.4×22k253614
84Jul 2, '25For all you kids listening, here's what you missed in The Great Browser Toolbar era of the 2000s.1.3×19k3121621
85Jun 24, '25Three weeks.1.3×19k26724
86May 30, '21When you’ve been separated from your bestie for 15 months.1.3×031433
87Apr 27, '25Jim Simons, New York City.1.2×19k3721118
88Feb 25, '25I mean come on.1.2×18k259620
89Aug 27, '24Two weeks!1.1×17k29973
91Dec 9, '21so... what did @SBF_FTX just say??1.1×0216115
92Aug 29, '22Very special Seattle-based weekend, for a very special Seattle-based cohost. 😀 (And some guy from SF showed up as a groomsman!)1.1×027200
93Apr 22, '24"The Lakeside Programmers Group" Paul Allen and @BillGates, age 17 and 15.1.1×16k2572520
94Jul 23, '25Well that's cool. Thanks @TIME!1.0×15k2381715
95Jul 19, '22It's been too long. Season 11 starts tomorrow.1.0×023360
96Jul 17, '25One more NYC stop before heading home. Thanks @NYSE for hosting us, and @JPMorgan for throwing last night's listener meetup!1.0×15k23446
97Apr 26, '25View post on X1.0×15k327710
98Sep 24, '22Lookie who we found!0.9×022941
99Jul 1, '25Larry and Sergey, 2004. cc @TechBroDrip0.9×14k247713
100Jul 17, '25We sat down with the @RockCenterNYC Magazine while we were in town this week. Our only regret was that they didn't use this photo:0.7×10k24955

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