Podcast Episodes

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 …

3 years, 1 month 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…

3 years, 2 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…

3 years, 3 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…

3 years, 4 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…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Season 12

We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out the video version of this episode — which plays na…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

Season 12

We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the hi…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Short: The Death of Sega

Season 12

Sega and the Genesis was THE underdog story of the early 90’s. In a single console generation, Sega went from ~zero to 50% US market share and dethro…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Nintendo: The Console Wars

Season 12 Episode 4

In the 1980’s Nintendo was on top of the world, with the NES achieving over 90% market share of home video games globally. So how did they fall ALL t…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Season 12

7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer and his Strategy Capital colleague Chenyi Shi join us again to discuss their latest research on a topic that’s highly…

3 years, 6 months ago

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