Podcast Episodes

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Season 14 Episode 1

Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company. And the …

2 years, 2 months ago

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Holiday Special 2023

Season 13 Episode 5

Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acquired, we cozy up to the fire to do our annual re…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Visa

Season 13 Episode 4

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that matter, who…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Charlie Munger

Season 13

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in his 99 years on Earth. We’ve gotte…

2 years, 5 months ago

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Season 13

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

Season 13 Episode 3

It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia.

We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up: Jensen & crew …

2 years, 7 months ago

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Nike

Season 13 Episode 1

Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on earth than…

2 years, 8 months ago

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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

Season 12 Episode 6

Nobody’s perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazine advertisement, they managed to get damn-close to th…

2 years, 9 months ago

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Season 12

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and asked him to hang out for a wide-rang…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Lockheed Martin

Season 12 Episode 5

Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team of aviation geniuses wh…

2 years, 10 months ago

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