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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

Google

We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research... more

30 Jun 2025 · 3 hours, 39 minutes
The Steve Ballmer Interview

We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic... more

02 Jun 2025 · 2 hours, 59 minutes
Epic Systems (MyChart)

What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm in rural... more

21 Apr 2025 · 3 hours, 57 minutes
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, 50 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, 19 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, 17 minutes
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