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All Episodes

Acquired — 217 episodes

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1

Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

2

The Walt Disney Company

3

Vanguard

4

Ferrari

5

Rolex

6

Costco

7

Formula 1

8

The NFL

9

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

10

Coca-Cola

11

Trader Joe’s

12

Google Part III: The AI Company

13

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

14

Google Part II: Alphabet

15

The Jamie Dimon Interview

16

Google Part I: Origins of Search

17

The Steve Ballmer Interview

18

Epic Systems (MyChart)

19

Indian Premier League Cricket

20

TSMC Founder Morris Chang

21

TSMC (Remastered)

22

Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

23

IKEA

24

Meta

25

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

26

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

27

Chase Center + Summer Update

28

Microsoft Volume II

29

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

30

Microsoft Volume I

31

Renaissance Technologies

32

Hermès

33

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

34

Holiday Special 2023

35

Visa

36

Charlie Munger

37

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

38

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

39

Nike

40

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

41

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

42

Lockheed Martin

43

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

44

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

45

Short: The Death of Sega

46

Nintendo: The Console Wars

47

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

48

Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

49

Nintendo's Origins

50

LVMH

51

Holiday Special 2022

52

Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

53

Enron

54

Qualcomm

55

Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

56

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

57

Benchmark Part I

58

Amazon Web Services

59

Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

60

Amazon.com

61

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

62

Walmart

63

The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

64

American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

65

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

66

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

67

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

68

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

69

Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

70

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

71

Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

72

SONY

73

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

74

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

75

Peloton

76

Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

77

CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

78

FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

79

7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer

80

Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

81

Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)

82

Standard Oil Part II

83

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

84

Standard Oil Part I

85

TSMC

86

Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

87

Andreessen Horowitz Part II

88

Andreessen Horowitz Part I

89

Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

90

Ethereum

91

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

92

Berkshire Hathaway Part III

93

Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

94

Berkshire Hathaway Part II

95

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

96

Berkshire Hathaway Part I

97

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

98

Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)

99

Meituan

100

The New York Times Company

101

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

102

Bitcoin

103

Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

104

Airbnb

105

DoorDash

106

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

107

Virgin Galactic

108

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

109

Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

110

Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

111

The NBA

112

Special: Acquired x My First Million

113

Epic Games

114

Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

115

Pinduoduo

116

Oprah (Harpo Studios)

117

SpaceX

118

Adapting Episode 3: Intel

119

Special: Jason Calacanis

120

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

121

Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

122

The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

123

Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)

124

WhatsApp

125

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

126

Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

127

TikTok

128

Disney, Plus

129

The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)

130

Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

131

Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

132

Google Maps

133

The Shopify IPO

134

Huawei

135

Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)

136

The Slack DPO

137

The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)

138

The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)

139

The Uber IPO

140

The Pinterest IPO

141

The Lyft IPO

142

Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

143

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

144

ARM & SoftBank

145

ESPN

146

Tencent

147

Netflix (Part 2)

148

Netflix (Part 1)

149

Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)

150

Behance (with Scott Belsky)

151

Alibaba

152

Recode (with Kara Swisher)

153

The Sonos IPO

154

The Xiaomi IPO

155

Tesla

156

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

157

GitHub

158

T-Mobile / Sprint

159

PowerPoint

160

Spotify’s Direct Listing

161

The Dropbox IPO

162

SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

163

Nest

164

Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt

165

Zappos (with Alfred Lin)

166

2017 Holiday Special

167

Apple - Beats

168

The Stitch Fix IPO

169

Qualcomm - Broadcom

170

The Atlassian IPO

171

Blue Bottle Coffee

172

HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile

173

AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

174

The Square IPO

175

Opsware (with Michel Feaster)

176

Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson

177

Activision Blizzard

178

Whole Foods Market

179

SoundJam (iTunes)

180

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

181

The LA Clippers

182

Oculus

183

The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan

184

Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)

185

The Snap Inc. IPO

186

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

187

P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

188

Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

189

The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

190

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

191

Marvel

192

The Facebook IPO

193

Skype

194

NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

195

Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)

196

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

197

Android

198

Jet

199

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

200

Waze

201

Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

202

ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

203

LinkedIn

204

Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop

205

Snapchat

206

PayPal

207

Virgin America

208

Writely (Google Docs)

209

Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (with Kurt DelBene)

210

YouTube

211

Lucasfilm

212

Siri

213

Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)

214

Twitch

215

Instagram

216

Pixar

217

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