Technology
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
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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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
Jun 20, 202257 minAmerican Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
Jun 6, 20221h 11mCapital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
May 19, 20221h 1mArena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
May 16, 20221h 4mArena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
May 12, 20221h 20mNvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
Apr 20, 20222h 5mPlatforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
Apr 6, 20221h 17mNvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
Mar 28, 20221h 53mAltimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
Mar 15, 20221h 46mSONY
Mar 7, 20222h 55mSuper Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Feb 22, 202256 minThe Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
Feb 15, 20221h 35mPeloton
Feb 10, 20222h 12mTaylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
Jan 23, 20222h 31mCAA (with Michael Ovitz)
Dec 21, 20211h 44mFTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
Dec 15, 20211h 29m7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
Dec 8, 202156 minNot Boring (with Packy McCormick)
Dec 3, 20212h 39mComplexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
Nov 3, 20211h 36mStandard Oil Part II
Oct 18, 20212h 15mMichael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
Oct 5, 20211h 17mStandard Oil Part I
Sep 22, 20212h 7m
TSMC
Sep 7, 20212h 21mKevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
Aug 30, 20211h 33mAndreessen Horowitz Part II
Aug 10, 20212h 47mAndreessen Horowitz Part I
Jul 27, 20211h 59mSpecial: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
Jul 19, 20211h 6mEthereum
Jul 6, 20212h 57mSpecial: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
Jun 21, 20211h 44mBerkshire Hathaway Part III
Jun 7, 20212h 50m
