Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.8from 13,523 ratings
- 224
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 13,523
- Ratings
- Daily
- 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
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
40 of 224 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Home Depot
10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Walt Disney Company
Inside a recent episode
Home Depot
Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You don't want to go to the outdoor restaurant. Lawn and garden store and over to the lumber yard and the plumbing store, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Being a warehouse unlocks putting all this stuff together under one roof for the first time. But it is different than the price club model of only having 4000 items. They're going to have to have. 25,000 SKUs in these warehouses and work with tons and tons of suppliers to make good on the promise that if you're doing something, it is the all-in-one place to shop for the job that you're getting done. And there is one other big difference too. People know how to buy toilet paper and how to use toilet paper. […]
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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
- 5,312 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 8,211 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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