Podcast Episodes

IKEA

Season 15 Episode 3

IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company with no direct competito…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Meta

Season 15 Episode 2

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually understand. Their produc…

1 year, 5 months ago

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Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

Season 15 Episode 1

Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life… our sold out live show at the Chase Center in San Francis…

1 year, 6 months ago

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The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Season 15

Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented thing: a live conversation in front of 6,0…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Chase Center + Summer Update

Season 14

Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:

Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in San Francisco, with …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Microsoft Volume II

Season 14 Episode 6

In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… w…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

Season 14 Episode 5

Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a billion global customer purchases pe…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Microsoft Volume I

Season 14 Episode 4

Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a …

1 year, 11 months ago

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Renaissance Technologies

Season 14 Episode 3

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at lea…

2 years ago

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Hermès

Season 14 Episode 2

In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, Hermès sells the absolute pinnacle of the …

2 years, 1 month ago

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