Results for "Ben Gilbert"
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StandardSummaries onlyStarbucks (with Howard Schultz)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 4, 2024
Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a billion global customer purchases per week across its stores and 3rd party retail channels, a significant p…
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Holiday Special 2023
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Dec 18, 2023
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 …
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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Dec 6, 2022
Ben Thompson joins Acquired to discuss the business of Stratechery itself and celebrate 10 years (!) of the internet’s best strategy analysis destination. Even beyond Stratechery’s enormous impact itself on business and …
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Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Dec 16, 2024
M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben’s Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all the brands you know, owned by the company you know nothing about: Mars, Incorporated. And Mars itself is 100% owned and deeply in…
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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Aug 2, 2022
This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home state of Ohio!), Republican House Representative Anthony Gonzalez. Anthony serves on the House Financial Services Committee …
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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 6, 2021
We dive into the fast-changing world of direct-to-consumer digital health, with perhaps the best person in the world: Levels founder Josh Clemente. (Shoutout to Ben Grynol and Michael Mizrahi from our LP community for in…
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Andreessen Horowitz Part I
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jul 27, 2021
We kick off Season 9 with a classic: Part I of the a16z story. How did this brand new venture firm charge out of the gates in 2009, going from zero to disrupting the entire venture industry overnight? You probably know M…
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Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Oct 1, 2025
It’s finally here! Today we are releasing Acquired’s first “concert film” — the full video recording of our Radio City live show from this summer with Jamie Dimon, Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Le…
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Berkshire Hathaway Part II
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· May 12, 2021
In Part II of our Berkshire Hathaway Trilogy (!), we pick up the story with Warren wandering in the woods of Omaha, searching for his life's next chapter after retiring from the professional investing business at the top…
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The Walt Disney Company
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 22, 2026
The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the childhood memories of bi…
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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Dec 15, 2025
Why has Acquired — seemingly against all odds — “worked”? It's a puzzling question: episodes are four hours long, they come out infrequently, and they usually don’t have guests or video. Hardly the standard-issue playboo…
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Google Part III: The AI Company
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Oct 6, 2025
Google invented the transformer, hired every AI pioneer, and still faces the ultimate innovator's dilemma — this is the untold story of how an AI company accidentally became a search company that forgot it was an AI comp…
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Google Part II: Alphabet
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Aug 26, 2025
In its first six years from 1998 to 2004, Google built one of the greatest products of all time (and certainly the greatest business of all time) with Search. Then in its next six years from 2005 to 2011, Google built se…
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The Jamie Dimon Interview
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jul 16, 2025
We sit down with Jamie Dimon for a live conversation at Radio City Music Hall, covering the incredible journey from his 1998 firing at Citgroup (where he was widely expected to become CEO) to building the most powerful b…
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Google Part I: Origins of Search
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 30, 2025
We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called BackRub, Google became the front door to the internet. Today it’s an essential service…
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The Steve Ballmer Interview
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 2, 2025
We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve listened to our Microsoft episodes and had some thoughts…
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Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 28, 2025
A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 with our good friends at J.P. Morgan Payments. Well, the big announcement is finally here: We are doing our 2025 Live Show… at Rad…
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Epic Systems (MyChart)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 21, 2025
What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm in rural Wisconsin? And that farm contained the world’s largest subterranean auditorium, as well as Disneyland—style replicas of Ho…
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Indian Premier League Cricket
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Mar 24, 2025
When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play immediately (in which case you’re not reading this), or you said “Huh. That’s a surprising episode.” Well, if you’re in group two, boy…
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TSMC Founder Morris Chang
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jan 27, 2025
We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video interview we could find was 17 years ago at the Computer History Museum… conducted by the one-and-on…
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TSMC (Remastered)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jan 21, 2025
We dive into the unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of them all: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Founded in 1987 by the then-56 year old Morris Chang, already a legend …
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Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Sep 30, 2024
Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life… our sold out live show at the Chase Center in San Francisco. We joked during the months (months!) of preparation leading up to t…
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The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Sep 18, 2024
Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented thing: a live conversation in front of 6,000 people on Meta’s company strategy, sharing stories from early Facebo…
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Chase Center + Summer Update
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Aug 8, 2024
Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in San Francisco, with special guests including Mark Zuckerberg (!). The show is Tuesday, Sept…
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Microsoft Volume II
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jul 22, 2024
In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discover…
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Microsoft Volume I
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 22, 2024
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…
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Renaissance Technologies
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Mar 18, 2024
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 t…
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Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jan 22, 2024
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 …
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Charlie Munger
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Oct 30, 2023
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 th…
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Oct 16, 2023
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 …
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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Sep 6, 2023
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 w…
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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 27, 2023
Nobody’s perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazine advertisement, they managed to get damn-close to the perfect luxury business (even Bernard Arnault would be jealous!). Por…
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 13, 2023
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and asked him to hang out for a wide-ranging conversation. :) We talk about his 20 years working with Barry Dill…
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Lockheed Martin
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· May 30, 2023
Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team of aviation geniuses who produced some of the greatest airplanes in history: the U-2, the Stea…
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· May 18, 2023
We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out the video version of this episode — which plays natively on Spotify!). This was an incredibly special and timely conversa…
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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 26, 2023
We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business models. This episode is the perfect…
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Short: The Death of Sega
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 18, 2023
Sega and the Genesis was THE underdog story of the early 90’s. In a single console generation, Sega went from ~zero to 50% US market share and dethroned Nintendo’s seemingly invincible global monopoly. But — somehow — it…
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