Best Andrew Lasky Podcasts (2025)

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Google 3:39:30

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1d ago3:39:30

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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 for over half the world, and one that generates more profit than ANY other US company — more than Apple, Microsoft, or Berkshire …

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Ep 8 | The Art of Pre-Construction | Elliot Lee 33:39

23d ago33:39

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In this episode of The Commissions & Cashflow Show, Andrew sits down with Elliot Lee, one of Miami’s top-producing realtors and the sales director behind the record-breaking Dolce & Gabbana tower, soon to be the tallest building in the city. Elliot shares his rise from student rental deals to selling $17M luxury condos, and unpacks the real sales p…

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Ep 7 | From SDR to Building a Multi-Million Dollar Marketing Agency | Max Weisenberg 30:14

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In this episode of The Commissions & Cashflow Show, host Andrew Lasky sits down with Max Weisenberg, a former college athlete turned top-performing sales rep who went on to build a thriving digital marketing agency serving the healthcare space. Max shares his journey from cold-calling doctors as an SDR at ZocDoc to launching a concierge-style marke…

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The Steve Ballmer Interview 2:59:20

30d ago2:59:20

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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 to share — and boy, did he deliver. Steve takes us point-by-point through the original IBM DOS deal that started everything, how …

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Ep 6 | Conviction Over Comfort: Sales, Leadership & Legacy | Antonio Mainolfi 35:17

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In this high-impact episode of The Commissions and Cashflow Show, host Andrew Lasky sits down with Antonio Mainolfi, manager at Bet-David Consulting and one of the driving forces behind Patrick Bet-David’s consulting division. Antonio shares how he went from having zero sales experience to becoming a top producer and leader managing over 50 consult…

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Ep 5 | The Fall Into Real Estate | Omar Lopez 36:09

1M ago36:09

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In this powerful episode of The Commissions & Cashflow Show, Andrew Lasky sits down with Omar Lopez—a real estate investor, wholesaler, and entrepreneur with a story that will inspire anyone who's ever hit rock bottom and dared to bounce back stronger. From pushing a lawnmower at age six to surviving a life-altering injury as a tree trimmer, Omar’s…

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Ep 4 | The Virtual Insurance Sales Movement | Charles Keller 49:29

2M ago49:29

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In this episode of The Commissions & Cashflow Show, I sit down with Charles Keller—former medical device rep who made a bold pivot into virtual life insurance sales and built his own remote agency, Fortress Life. We cover: ✅ Why virtual life insurance is booming right now ✅ The difference between traditional and remote life insurance sales ✅ How Ch…

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Ep 3 | Energy Drinks, Enterprise Deals & Custom Cigars | Ian Lenhart 32:31

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On this episode of The Commissions and Cash Flow Show, host Andrew Lasky welcomes a dynamic guest whose career path proves that great salespeople aren’t born—they’re built. Meet Ian Lenhart, a self-made entrepreneur, startup sales veteran, and founder of Cigars.com, whose journey from selling energy drinks in college dorms to closing enterprise tec…

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Ep 2 | How a Crackhouse Sale Changed My Sales Game | Jack Tenke 30:33

2M ago30:33

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Welcome back to The Commissions & Cashflow Show with your host Andrew Lasky! In this episode, we sit down with high-performing sales leader Jack Tenke, who went from chasing Wall Street dreams to dominating the world of home improvement sales. Jack opens up about his unconventional entry into sales, going from private equity boiler rooms to closing…

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Ep 1 | Goal Oriented: Pure Domination From Soccer Pitch To Sales Pitch | Scott Karten 46:06

2M ago46:06

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Welcome to the Commissions & Cashflow Show — where top sales pros open up about the grind, the wins, the setbacks, and the wealth they’re building along the way. In this powerful debut episode, host Andrew Lasky sits down with legendary sales leader Scott Karten—a man whose story defines hustle. From ice cream truck routes to seven-figure years in …

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Ep 0 | Intro 3:32

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Welcome to The Commissions & Cashflow Show — the ultimate podcast for anyone who eats what they kill. Hosted by top-performing sales pro turned real estate investor Andrew Lasky, this show is your front-row seat to the minds of elite sales killers across industries like medical devices, insurance, solar, home improvement, real estate, advertising, …

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Epic Systems (MyChart) 3:57:02

2M ago3:57:02

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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 Hogwarts and the Emerald City? What if we told you that the person who started, runs and owns this establishment has legally ensured…

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Indian Premier League Cricket 4:28:07

3M ago4:28:07

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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 do we have a treat for you! IPL is the fastest-growing, most dynamic and most disruptive force in the sports industry today… and …

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Rolex 5:00:35

4M ago5:00:35

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Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical devices for 10-1000x the price of their superior digital successors… and demand is stronger than ever in history! Their products are comparable to a Hermès Birkin bag in price, luxury status and waitlist times… yet they produce over 1m units / year (roughly 10x a…

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TSMC Founder Morris Chang 2:54:56

5M ago2:54:56

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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-only Jensen Huang! This episode came about after asking ourselves a version of the Jeff Bezos “regret minimization” question: what c…

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TSMC (Remastered) 2:27:50

5M ago2:27:50

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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 in the semiconductor industry by virtue of his meteoric rise and fall at Texas Instruments, TSMC today manufactures nearly all the…

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Mars Inc. (the chocolate story) 3:50:37

7M ago3:50:37

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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 intertwined with the Mars family, who are currently the second wealthiest (and perhaps first most secretive!) family in the United S…

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IKEA 3:19:19

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IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company with no direct competitors — yet have only ~5% market share. They’re one of the largest retailers in the world — yet sell only their own products. They generate a few billion in free cash flow every year — yet have no shareho…

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Meta 6:17:26

8M ago6:17:26

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Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually understand. Their products are used by more humans than any other’s in history — almost half of the entire world’s population daily. But… what is Meta? Why do they do what they do? How do they do what they do? Ask ten people …

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Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) 2:23:44

9M ago2:23:44

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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 this event that it was like planning a wedding for 6,000 Acquired fans, and the guest list included Jamie Dimon, Daniel Ek, Emily C…

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The Mark Zuckerberg Interview 1:27:44

10M ago1:27:44

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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 Facebook history, and his thoughts on the future of AI, VR, and AR. Mark was remarkably candid in our discussion, and gave us a window i…

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Chase Center + Summer Update 21:53

11M ago21:53

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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, September 10th, with doors opening at 5 PM for an hour of mingling with other listeners before the show starts at 6 PM. Huge thank yo…

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Microsoft Volume II 4:48:07

12M ago4:48:07

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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 discovered in our research, is probably not what you think. In this episode we explore and analyze the browser wars and the DOJ case, Wind…

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Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) 3:12:59

1y ago3:12:59

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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 portion of the human population gets their daily fix in the green and white paper cup. (Including our own Ben Gilbert who famously …

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Microsoft Volume I 4:22:29

1y ago4:22:29

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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 company that so thoroughly and completely dominated every conceivable competitor that the United Sta…

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Renaissance Technologies 3:06:39

1+ y ago3:06:39

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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 — scientists who’ve discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved int…

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Hermès 4:07:19

1+ y ago4:07:19

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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’s flagship Birkin or Kelly bags. Unlike every other luxury brand, Hermès: Doesn’t increase supply…

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Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) 3:42:13

1+ y ago3:42:13

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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. While we didn’t know much about Novo Nordisk before diving in, our first thought was, “wow, seems lik…

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Holiday Special 2023 2:16:24

1+ y ago2:16:24

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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 2023 (LVMH! Jensen! Costco! Charlie! Half a million plus listeners!) and look ahead to some big thin…

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Visa 3:42:51

1+ y ago3:42:51

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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 largest market cap company in the world, Visa’s history and strategy is almost shockingly unknow…

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Charlie Munger 1:06:46

1+ y ago1:06:46

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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. Over dinner at his Los Angeles home, Charlie reflected with us on his own career and his nearly 50-ye…

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang 1:29:54

1+ y ago1:29:54

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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 company’s initial motivation to enter the datacenter business came from perhaps not where you’d think…

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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) 2:53:41

2y ago2:53:41

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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’d discovered a wondrous opportunity (machine learning powered social media feed recommendations). Th…

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Costco 2:59:41

2y ago2:59:41

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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 the cheapest prices of any major retailer in America — and also the wealthiest customer base. They p…

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Nike 4:00:30

2y ago4:00:30

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Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on earth than any other footwear company — by a long shot. If you read Shoe Dog or watched Air, you may think you know its history. But Shoe Dog ends in 1980, and Air… well let’s just say it’s an enjoyable piece of…

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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) 3:21:46

2y ago3:21:46

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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!). Porsche is both quality AND quantity, owning the most prestigious brand in its market, while at the same time churning out almost hal…

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi 1:36:38

2y ago1:36:38

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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 Diller, starting his career at Allen & Company, how the Uber CEO search process ACTUALLY went down… and oh yeah, the massive transform…

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Lockheed Martin 3:37:14

2y ago3:37:14

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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 Stealth Fighter, and the incomparable SR-71 Blackbird. The second story is arguably even more important, but not widely known! It's th…

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek 1:37:42

2y ago1:37:42

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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 conversation: for those who haven’t been paying attention over the past few years, after revolutionizing music Spotify has now ALSO comple…

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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming 2:15:23

2y ago2:15:23

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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 bookend to our Nintendo/Sega gaming series this season on Acquired — no one is more qualified than Mitch and Blake to breakdown h…

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Short: The Death of Sega 1:07:49

2y ago1:07:49

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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 all then died. Two console generations later Sega was out of the hardware game entirely, and the company was sold off for pieces …

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Nintendo: The Console Wars 3:17:16

2y ago3:17:16

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In the 1980’s Nintendo was on top of the world, with the NES achieving over 90% market share of home video games globally. So how did they fall ALL the way down to ~10% in just a few short console generations? And how did they then build themselves back up (and down and up again) to the top of the world again? Spoiler: it all hinged on one very sma…

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business 1:29:30

2y ago1:29:30

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7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer and his Strategy Capital colleague Chenyi Shi join us again to discuss their latest research on a topic that’s highly relevant to the recent Acquired canon: how to build a second business line. This incredibly important “transforming” question faces every great company who has achieved initial product success (as wel…

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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) 3:18:52

2+ y ago3:18:52

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ACQ Sessions returns with David Senra of the Founders Podcast. David is one of our very favorite people in the world — it’s impossible to spend an hour (or 3!) with him and not come away inspired to go take over the world. This conversation is an “extended, IRL version” of monthly calls that we do together where we share stories, swap life and podc…

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Nintendo's Origins 3:25:28

2+ y ago3:25:28

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You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away. The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the …

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LVMH 3:31:30

2+ y ago3:31:30

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We tell the full history of LVMH, and how Bernard Arnault turned a $15m investment in a bankrupt French textile company into the world’s largest individual fortune. It’s a story that’s equal parts Berkshire Hathaway, Steve Jobs and Barbarians at the Gate… and wholly under-appreciated for the genius business model innovations that enabled it. Whatev…

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The NFL 3:47:05

2+ y ago3:47:05

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The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to explore the nation’s development over the last 100 years, from WWII to TV and suburbs to the Internet and social media. What began as a quasi-illicit league in small midwestern towns is now the single largest media property in the world today by revenue. A…

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Holiday Special 2022 2:19:40

2+ y ago2:19:40

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Cozy up to the fire and join Acquired as we do our annual strategic review of the show and our business “in public”. We recap our perspectives on Acquired’s big moments from the past year, a bit of commentary on the current state of the tech ecosystem, and what lies ahead for us in 2023. Plus as always at the holidays, we do an extended carve out s…

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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) 1:54:28

2+ y ago1:54:28

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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 tech over the years, Ben’s work inspired a whole generation of business content creators — this show very much included — and it w…

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Enron 3:32:02

2+ y ago3:32:02

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The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we’ve debated if and how Acquired could uniquely add to the conversation. Then we realized there was an angle so perfect that we had to drop everything and enter Acquired research overdrive: Enron. Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001’s then-largest bankruptc…