Acquired Summaries & Transcripts

Coca-Cola

Nov 24, 2025

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Trader Joe’s

Oct 27, 2025

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Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)

Oct 1, 2025

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Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Dec 16, 2024

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Microsoft Volume I

Apr 22, 2024

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Renaissance Technologies

Mar 18, 2024

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Hermès

Feb 20, 2024

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Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Jan 22, 2024

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Holiday Special 2023

Dec 18, 2023

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Visa

Nov 27, 2023

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Charlie Munger

Oct 30, 2023

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Oct 16, 2023

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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

Sep 6, 2023

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Nike

Jul 25, 2023

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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

Jun 27, 2023

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Jun 13, 2023

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Lockheed Martin

May 30, 2023

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

May 18, 2023

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

Apr 26, 2023

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Short: The Death of Sega

Apr 18, 2023

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Nintendo: The Console Wars

Apr 11, 2023

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

Apr 4, 2023

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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

Mar 29, 2023

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Nintendo's Origins

Mar 16, 2023

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LVMH

Feb 21, 2023

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The NFL

Jan 25, 2023

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Holiday Special 2022

Dec 19, 2022

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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

Dec 6, 2022

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Enron

Nov 29, 2022

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Qualcomm

Nov 15, 2022

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Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

Oct 17, 2022

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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

Oct 4, 2022

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Benchmark Part I

Sep 28, 2022

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Amazon Web Services

Sep 6, 2022

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Aug 30, 2022

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Amazon.com

Aug 16, 2022

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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

Aug 2, 2022

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Walmart

Jul 19, 2022

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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

Jun 20, 2022

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American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

Jun 6, 2022

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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

May 19, 2022

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Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)

May 16, 2022

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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

May 12, 2022

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Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

Apr 20, 2022

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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

Apr 6, 2022

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Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

Mar 28, 2022

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Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

Mar 15, 2022

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SONY

Mar 7, 2022

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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Feb 22, 2022

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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

Feb 15, 2022

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Peloton

Feb 10, 2022

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Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

Jan 23, 2022

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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Dec 21, 2021

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FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

Dec 15, 2021

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7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer

Dec 8, 2021

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Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

Dec 3, 2021

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Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)

Nov 3, 2021

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Standard Oil Part II

Oct 18, 2021

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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More

Oct 5, 2021

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Standard Oil Part I

Sep 22, 2021

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TSMC

Sep 7, 2021

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Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

Aug 30, 2021

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Andreessen Horowitz Part II

Aug 10, 2021

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Andreessen Horowitz Part I

Jul 27, 2021

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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

Jul 19, 2021

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Ethereum

Jul 6, 2021

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Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC

Jun 21, 2021

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Berkshire Hathaway Part III

Jun 7, 2021

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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

May 27, 2021

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Berkshire Hathaway Part II

May 12, 2021

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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)

May 5, 2021

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Berkshire Hathaway Part I

Apr 21, 2021

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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)

Apr 6, 2021

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Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)

Mar 24, 2021

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Meituan

Mar 10, 2021

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The New York Times Company

Feb 18, 2021

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Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)

Feb 1, 2021

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Bitcoin

Jan 19, 2021

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Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

Dec 17, 2020

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Airbnb

Dec 11, 2020

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DoorDash

Dec 10, 2020

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Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring

Dec 2, 2020

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Virgin Galactic

Nov 23, 2020

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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)

Nov 12, 2020

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Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

Oct 28, 2020

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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

Oct 7, 2020

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The NBA

Sep 30, 2020

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Special: Acquired x My First Million

Sep 9, 2020

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Epic Games

Sep 2, 2020

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Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

Aug 25, 2020

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Pinduoduo

Jul 16, 2020

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Oprah (Harpo Studios)

Jun 25, 2020

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SpaceX

May 26, 2020

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Adapting Episode 3: Intel

May 12, 2020

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Special: Jason Calacanis

Apr 29, 2020

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Podapalooza Announcement: Intel

Apr 15, 2020

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Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)

Mar 31, 2020

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Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

Mar 20, 2020

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The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

Mar 17, 2020

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Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)

Feb 18, 2020

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WhatsApp

Jan 29, 2020

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The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)

Dec 30, 2019

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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

Dec 19, 2019

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TikTok

Dec 9, 2019

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Disney, Plus

Nov 25, 2019

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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)

Oct 25, 2019

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Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

Oct 15, 2019

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Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

Sep 26, 2019

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Google Maps

Aug 26, 2019

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The Shopify IPO

Aug 6, 2019

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Huawei

Jul 22, 2019

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Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)

Jun 27, 2019

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The Slack DPO

Jun 25, 2019

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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)

Jun 19, 2019

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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)

May 27, 2019

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The Uber IPO

May 11, 2019

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The Pinterest IPO

Apr 24, 2019

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The Lyft IPO

Mar 30, 2019

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Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

Feb 26, 2019

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Special: Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!

Feb 19, 2019

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ARM & SoftBank

Feb 3, 2019

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ESPN

Jan 21, 2019

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Tencent

Dec 17, 2018

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Netflix (Part 2)

Nov 25, 2018

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Netflix (Part 1)

Nov 12, 2018

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Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)

Oct 29, 2018

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Behance (with Scott Belsky)

Oct 2, 2018

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Alibaba

Sep 24, 2018

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Recode (with Kara Swisher)

Sep 11, 2018

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The Sonos IPO

Aug 20, 2018

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The Xiaomi IPO

Aug 6, 2018

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Tesla

Jul 17, 2018

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The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)

Jun 18, 2018

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GitHub

Jun 6, 2018

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T-Mobile / Sprint

May 21, 2018

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PowerPoint

May 4, 2018

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Spotify’s Direct Listing

Apr 6, 2018

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The Dropbox IPO

Mar 26, 2018

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SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

Mar 23, 2018

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Nest

Feb 20, 2018

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Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt

Feb 7, 2018

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Zappos (with Alfred Lin)

Jan 23, 2018

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2017 Holiday Special

Dec 18, 2017

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Apple - Beats

Dec 11, 2017

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The Stitch Fix IPO

Dec 4, 2017

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Qualcomm - Broadcom

Nov 20, 2017

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The Atlassian IPO

Nov 7, 2017

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Blue Bottle Coffee

Oct 8, 2017

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HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile

Sep 21, 2017

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AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

Sep 18, 2017

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The Square IPO

Aug 16, 2017

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Opsware (with Michel Feaster)

Aug 5, 2017

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Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson

Jul 26, 2017

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Activision Blizzard

Jul 13, 2017

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Whole Foods Market

Jun 21, 2017

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"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day

Jun 11, 2017

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SoundJam (iTunes)

May 31, 2017

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BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”

May 10, 2017

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The LA Clippers

Apr 24, 2017

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Oculus

Apr 11, 2017

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The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan

Apr 3, 2017

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Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)

Mar 13, 2017

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The Snap Inc. IPO

Mar 4, 2017

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The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

Mar 1, 2017

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P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Jan 24, 2017

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Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

Jan 11, 2017

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The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

Dec 31, 2016

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Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz

Dec 16, 2016

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Marvel

Dec 5, 2016

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The Facebook IPO

Nov 11, 2016

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Skype

Nov 2, 2016

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NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

Oct 23, 2016

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Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)

Oct 14, 2016

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Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

Sep 27, 2016

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Android

Sep 16, 2016

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Jet

Aug 29, 2016

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Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

Aug 22, 2016

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Waze

Aug 3, 2016

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Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

Jul 12, 2016

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ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

Jul 5, 2016

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LinkedIn

Jun 16, 2016

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Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop

Jun 6, 2016

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Snapchat

May 23, 2016

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PayPal

May 9, 2016

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Virgin America

Apr 27, 2016

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Writely (Google Docs)

Mar 29, 2016

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Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (with Kurt DelBene)

Feb 29, 2016

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YouTube

Feb 3, 2016

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Lucasfilm

Jan 19, 2016

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Siri

Dec 14, 2015

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Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)

Nov 30, 2015

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Twitch

Nov 16, 2015

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Instagram

Nov 1, 2015

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Pixar

Oct 15, 2015

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Trailer: What is Acquired?

Oct 1, 2015

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Episodes (221)

Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

The Walt Disney Company

Vanguard

Ferrari

Rolex

Costco

Formula 1

The NFL

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Coca-Cola

Trader Joe’s

Google Part III: The AI Company

Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)

Google Part II: Alphabet

The Jamie Dimon Interview

Google Part I: Origins of Search

The Steve Ballmer Interview

Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!

Epic Systems (MyChart)

Indian Premier League Cricket

TSMC Founder Morris Chang

TSMC (Remastered)

Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

IKEA

Meta

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Chase Center + Summer Update

Microsoft Volume II

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

Microsoft Volume I

Renaissance Technologies

Hermès

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Holiday Special 2023

Visa

Charlie Munger

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

Nike

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Lockheed Martin

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

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

Short: The Death of Sega

Nintendo: The Console Wars

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

Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

Nintendo's Origins

LVMH

The NFL

Holiday Special 2022

Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

Enron

Qualcomm

Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

Benchmark Part I

Amazon Web Services

Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Amazon.com

From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

Walmart

The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

SONY

Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

Peloton