Podcast Episodes

Virgin Galactic

Season 7 Episode 6

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

5 years, 10 months ago

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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)

Season 7

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

5 years, 11 months ago

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Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

Season 7 Episode 5

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 all of our…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

Season 7

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

6 years ago

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The NBA

Season 7 Episode 4

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 fastest growing …

6 years ago

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Special: Acquired x My First Million

Season 7

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

6 years, 1 month ago

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Epic Games

Season 7 Episode 3

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

6 years, 1 month ago

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Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

Season 7 Episode 2

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

6 years, 1 month ago

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Pinduoduo

Season 7 Episode 1

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

6 years, 3 months ago

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Oprah (Harpo Studios)

Season 6 Episode 8

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

6 years, 3 months ago

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