In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company... more

Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a... more

Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created.... more

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves... more

In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, Hermès sells the absolute... more

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

Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acquired, we... more

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of... more

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in... more

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours... more

It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia.We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story... more

Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch), it’s an absolutely... more

Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes... more

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

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and... more

Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team... more

We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out the video... more

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

Sega and the Genesis was THE underdog story of the early 90’s. In a single console generation, Sega went from... more

In the 1980’s Nintendo was on top of the world, with the NES achieving over 90% market share of home... more