Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s not even close!), with the re-recording of her original albums she’s in the process of reshaping the en...
23 Tammi 20222h 39min
CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint for A16Z’s upending of Silicon Valley a generation later, Michael Ovitz and his “Dream Factory”, Cre...
21 Joulu 20211h 52min
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
Note: This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021, approximately a year before FTX’s subsequent meltdown. The apparent negligence, fraud and self-dealing at FTX has given us much to reflect on after we...
15 Joulu 20211h 37min
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to be organizations? How high is the ceiling on one person + the internet? Acquired has the answers and th...
3 Joulu 20212h 48min
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project episode with Brinton Johns and Jon Bathgate of NZS Capital laying out the state of the semiconductor ma...
3 Marras 20211h 44min
Standard Oil Part II
We bring the epic saga of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller to a close (for now) with two of history's greatest second acts: Rockefeller's pioneering of modern philanthropy (and really modern life ...
18 Loka 20212h 23min
Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
We sit down with the one & only Michael Mauboussin to dive deep into his incredible body of work: untangling skill and luck, measuring moats, persistence of returns in venture capital, decision making...
5 Loka 20211h 26min
