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Google: The AI Company
Season 18 Episode 1
Google faces the greatest innovator's dilemma in history. They invented the Transformer — the breakthrough technology powering every modern AI system from ChatGPT to Claude (and, of course, Gemini). …
Published on 3 hours ago
Alphabet Inc.
Season 17 Episode 4
In its first six years from 1998 to 2004, Google built one of the greatest products of all time (and certainly the greatest business of all time) with Search. Then in its next six years from 2005 to …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Jamie Dimon Interview
Season 17 Episode 3
We sit down with Jamie Dimon for a live conversation at Radio City Music Hall, covering the incredible journey from his 1998 firing at Citgroup (where he was widely expected to become CEO) to buildin…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Season 17 Episode 2
We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called BackRub, Google became the front door to the internet. Today it’s…
Published on 3 months ago
The Steve Ballmer Interview
Season 17 Episode 1
We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve listened to our Microsoft episodes …
Published on 4 months ago
Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!
Season 16 Episode 5
A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 with our good friends at J.P. Morgan Payments. Well, the big announcement is finally here: We are doing our 2…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Epic Systems (MyChart)
Season 16 Episode 4
What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm in rural Wisconsin? And that farm contained the world’s largest subterranean auditorium, as well as Disneyland…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Indian Premier League Cricket
Season 16 Episode 3
When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play immediately (in which case you’re not reading this), or you said “Huh. That’s a surprising episode.” Well, if you…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Rolex
Season 16 Episode 2
Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical devices for 10-1000x the price of their superior digital successors… and demand is stronger than ever in history…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
TSMC Founder Morris Chang
Season 16 Episode 1
We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video interview we could find was 17 years ago at the Computer History Museum… conduc…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago