Acquired

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

Episodes

Total: 207

SONY

2022/3/7

Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — Sony

We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and Jo

We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on each

The Peloton journey has been one seriously wild ride. From can’t raise money to one of Tiger Global’

Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s not

Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint

Note: This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021, approximately a year before FTX’s subsequent meltd

You've heard us talk about him every episode for the past two years... but until now most of you hav

When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to be

Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project epi

We bring the epic saga of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller to a close (for now) with two of hist

We sit down with the one & only Michael Mauboussin to dive deep into his incredible body of work

It's time. We dive into the *original* American capitalist mega winner, Standard Oil, and its legend

TSMC

2021/9/7

It's time. We dive into the unbelievable history behind the quietest technology giant of them all —

We sit down with the one and only Kevin Rose to talk about his journey from pioneering Web 2.0 with

Alright, backstory's out of the way, and Acquired is rolling three hours deep on the venture firm th

We kick off Season 9 with a classic: Part I of the a16z story. How did this brand new venture firm c

We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Y

We close out Season 8 with the most ambitious organization we've ever covered on Acquired: Ethereum,

What do you get when you combine Berkshire Hathaway's approach with early-stage venture capital? Alt