Acquired
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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Business and strategy podcasts skew long. Acquired covers single companies for 4+ hours. Patrick O'Shaughnessy unpacks investor thinking for 90 minutes. PodSized produces 5-minute AI summaries with chapters and audio versions — read or listen to the whole episode worth's of insight without the hours.
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Stay current on business strategy and operator thinking without 4-hour Acquired episodes.
The shortlist
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Conversations with the best investors and business leaders in the world. We explore their ideas, methods, and stories to help you better invest your time and money. Hear stock market and boardroom insights you can't find anywhere else. If y
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BigDeal
You can change your life and make a dent on the world. This podcast uncovers the unfiltered lessons from the smartest minds straight to you, in conversations so honest you feel guilty listening in. We believe the current way of thinking is
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My First Million
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
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What are the best business strategy podcasts in 2026? ↓
Based on what serious listeners actually follow: Acquired, Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy, BigDeal, and others below. Each is summarized by PodSized — so you can keep up with all of them, not just the one you have time for.
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PodSized transcribes the full episode with Whisper, generates a structured AI text summary, and creates a timestamped chapter outline. Free tier gives 3 summaries per month. Premium ($4.99/mo or $49.99/yr) unlocks unlimited summaries, a 5-minute audio version of every summary, AI chat with episodes, full transcripts, Obsidian/Logseq/Notion/Readwise export, and Ask PodSized cross-episode search.
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