Acquired - A Podcast About Technology Acquisitions & IPOs
We tell the stories behind the deals. What lessons do they hold for where tech is heading, and why? We dive in.
- Website
- http://www.acquired.fm/
- Description
- We tell the stories behind the deals. What lessons do they hold for where tech is heading, and why? We dive in.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-23 01:54
- last episode published
- 2024-04-21 17:54
- publication frequency
- 9.91 days
- Contributors
- Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- Author
- Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 315
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Investing Technology Business
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-21 | Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The co... |
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| 2024-03-17 | Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scienti... |
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| 2024-02-19 | In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, Hermès sells the absolute pinnacle of the French luxury dream. Loyal clients will wait years simply for the opportunity to buy one of the company... |
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| 2024-01-21 | Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company. And the pull for Acquired to finally tackle healthcare (18% of US GDP!) became too strong for us to resist. Whi... |
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| 2023-12-17 | Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acquired, we cozy up to the fire to do our annual review of the show “in public”. We reflect on what can only be described as an absolutely mind-blowing 20... |
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| 2023-11-26 | To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that matter, who started it? Who runs and governs it? Where is it headquartered? What’s its business model?For the 11th... |
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| 2023-10-29 | We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in his 99 years on Earth. We’ve gotten to have some special conversations on Acquired over the years, but this one truly takes the cake. Ove... |
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| 2023-10-15 | We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought we knew everything but — unsurprisingly — Jensen knows more. A couple teasers: we learned that the... |
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| 2023-09-05 | It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia.We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up: Jensen & crew had set out on an amazing journey to accelerate the world’s computing workloads. Along the way they... |
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| 2023-08-20 | Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch), it’s an absolutely fascinating study in how seemingly opposite characteristics can combine to create incredible company value. For instance: Costco has th... |
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