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Amazon.com

2022/8/16

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’ve wa

This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home stat

We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and

When Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brent Beshore asked us to give a talk at their incredible Capital Cam

We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, w

We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time —

For the final act of the Arena Show, we’re joined by Brooks CEO Jim Weber to tell the amazing story

We did an Arena Show!! This evening was so big and so special, we had to split it into two episodes

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company t

We sit down once again with one of the world’s very best strategy thinkers, 7 Powers author Hamilton

He wears signature leather jackets. He can bench press more than you. He makes cars that drive thems

We hear a lot these days about hedge funds becoming venture firms, and venture firms becoming hedge

SONY

2022/3/7

Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — Sony

We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and Jo

We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on each

The Peloton journey has been one seriously wild ride. From can’t raise money to one of Tiger Global’

Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s not

Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint

Note: This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021, approximately a year before FTX’s subsequent meltd

You've heard us talk about him every episode for the past two years... but until now most of you hav