Podcast Episodes

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…

2 years, 2 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…

2 years, 4 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 …

2 years, 5 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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago

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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, 8 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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…

3 years ago

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