Podcast Episodes

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 larg…

1 year, 5 months ago

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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 sai…

1 year, 6 months ago

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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 1…

1 year, 8 months ago

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TSMC (Remastered)

Season 16

We dive into the unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of them all: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Season 15 Episode 4

M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben’s Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all the brands you know, owned by the company you know nothing…

1 year, 10 months ago

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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, 11 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, 11 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…

2 years 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…

2 years, 1 month 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 …

2 years, 2 months ago

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