Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.8from 13,862 ratings
- 225
- Episodes
- 41
- Transcribed
- 13,862
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 82M
- YouTube views
About Acquired
Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
- Publisher
- Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Oct 2015
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
41 of 225 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
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Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Maybe. Okay, so that's Columbia and Coca-Cola. A few years after Coke buys Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment is formed in 1987 by five partners, including Rob Reiner. The successful young actor and director. He'd been on All in the Family and directed Spinal Tap, I think, in The Princess Bride. Yes. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Michael Lewis
- Jamie Dimon
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Meredith Kopit Levien
- Barry Diller
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 81,902,811
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 5,424 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 8,438 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Acquired take guests?
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