Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal cover the history and strategies of major tech acquisitions. Deep dives into company stories.
Seinfeld
Oct 19, 2026
The Home Depot
Sep 14, 2026
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
Aug 10, 2026
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio)
Jun 23, 2026
The Walt Disney Company
Jun 22, 2026
Vanguard
May 18, 2026
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)
Apr 14, 2026
Ferrari
Apr 13, 2026
Rolex
Mar 5, 2026
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio)
Costco
Mar 4, 2026
Formula 1
Mar 2, 2026
The NFL
Jan 27, 2026
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio)
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
Dec 15, 2025
ACQ2: The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin
Dec 8, 2025
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio)
Nov 24, 2025
Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)
Nov 5, 2025
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio)
Oct 27, 2025
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio)
Oct 6, 2025
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)
Sep 18, 2025
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio)
Aug 26, 2025
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]
Aug 18, 2025
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank
Jul 16, 2025
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio)
Jun 30, 2025
ACQ2: Building the Savannah Bananas with Jesse Cole, Founder and Owner (Audio)
Jun 16, 2025
The Steve Ballmer Interview
Jun 2, 2025
ACQ2: From Almost Sold to Market Leader | Plaid & Zach Perret
May 27, 2025
Epic Systems (MyChart)
Apr 21, 2025
ACQ2: Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
Apr 10, 2025
ACQ2: How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
Apr 3, 2025
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio)
Mar 24, 2025
ACQ2: Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
Mar 20, 2025
ACQ2: Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski) (Audio)
Mar 13, 2025
ACQ2: The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
Mar 10, 2025
ACQ2: The Software Behind Silicon (with Synopsys Founder Aart de Geus and CEO Sassine Ghazi)
Mar 5, 2025
Rolex (Audio)
Feb 24, 2025
ACQ2: Building Web Apps with Just English and AI (with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch)
Feb 18, 2025
TSMC founder Morris Chang
Jan 27, 2025
TSMC
Jan 21, 2025
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio)
Dec 16, 2024
IKEA (Audio)
Nov 18, 2024
Meta (Audio)
Oct 28, 2024
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
Sep 30, 2024
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Sep 18, 2024
Chase Center + Summer Update (Audio)
Aug 8, 2024
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio)
Jul 22, 2024
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
Jun 4, 2024
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio)
Apr 22, 2024