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Acquired
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

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Episodes

Indian Premier League Cricket

When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play immediately (in... more

24 Mar 2025 · 4 hours, 28 minutes
Rolex

Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical devices for 10-1000x the price of their... more

24 Feb 2025 · 5 hours,
TSMC Founder Morris Chang

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form... more

27 Jan 2025 · 2 hours, 54 minutes
TSMC (Remastered)

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

21 Jan 2025 · 2 hours, 27 minutes
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben’s Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all the brands you know, owned by the... more

16 Dec 2024 · 3 hours, 53 minutes
IKEA

IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company... more

18 Nov 2024 · 3 hours, 22 minutes
Meta

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

28 Oct 2024 · 6 hours, 22 minutes
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life… our sold out live show... more

30 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 23 minutes
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented... more

18 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 27 minutes
Chase Center + Summer Update

Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in... more

08 Aug 2024 · 21 minutes