Acquired

By 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 as a founder, operator, or investor.

  1. 1.
    The New York Times Company
    3:04:57
  2. 2.
    Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
    54:58
  3. 3.
    Bitcoin
    3:12:28
  4. 4.
    Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
    1:49:13
  5. 5.
    Airbnb
    2:37:13
  6. 6.
    DoorDash
    2:58:26
  7. 7.
    Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
    1:24:51
  8. 8.
    Virgin Galactic
    1:45:10
  1. 9.
    Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
    53:45
  2. 10.
    Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
    1:22:50
  3. 11.
    Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
    1:45:01
  4. 12.
    The NBA
    2:44:46
  5. 13.
    Special: Acquired x My First Million
    1:31:43
  6. 14.
    Epic Games
    2:25:04
  7. 15.
    Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
    1:31:01
  8. 16.
    Pinduoduo
    1:51:55
  9. 17.
    LP Show Preview: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark
    14:51
  10. 18.
    Oprah (Harpo Studios)
    2:08:33
  11. 19.
    SpaceX
    2:39:49
  12. 20.
    Adapting Episode 3: Intel
    1:18:50
  13. 21.
    Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
    1:32:01
  14. 22.
    Podapalooza Announcement: Intel
    5:25
  15. 23.
    Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
    36:58
  16. 24.
    Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
    43:17
  17. 25.
    The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
    1:44:59
  18. 26.
    LP Show Preview: Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster)
    15:36
  19. 27.
    Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
    1:01:25
  20. 28.
    WhatsApp
    1:46:29
  21. 29.
    The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
    1:19:09
  22. 30.
    Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
    1:35:06
  23. 31.
    TikTok
    1:37:06
  24. 32.
    Disney, Plus
    2:12:31
  25. 33.
    Seattle Live Show Announcement: Convoy!
    2:17
  26. 34.
    LP Show Preview: Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark
    8:45
  27. 35.
    The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
    1:34:31
  28. 36.
    Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
    1:35:36
  29. 37.
    Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
    1:46:04
  30. 38.
    San Francisco Meetup Announcement!
    2:26
  31. 39.
    Google Maps
    1:35:35
  32. 40.
    The Shopify IPO
    1:24:48
  33. 41.
    Huawei
    1:02:57
  34. 42.
    Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
    1:16:42
  35. 43.
    The Slack DPO
    1:55:39
  36. 44.
    The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
    1:16:16
  37. 45.
    The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
    1:58:12
  38. 46.
    The Uber IPO
    2:20:10
  39. 47.
    The Pinterest IPO
    1:38:08
  40. 48.
    The Lyft IPO
    2:16:02
  41. 49.
    LP sneak peek: How to build a successful SaaS company (with Jake Saper, Partner at Emergence Capital)
    15:28
  42. 50.
    Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
    1:10:50

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