''Acquired'' is a podcast by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal about business history and strategy. As of 2024, the podcast has more than 600,000 monthly listeners.

History

Gilbert and Rosenthal worked together at

Madrona Venture Group Madrona Venture Group is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1995 and based in Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a populat ...

and initially had an idea for making a podcast about company acquisitions that became pivotal to the success of the acquiring company. The first episode discussed

Pixar Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney ...

and was published in 2015. Over time, the show expanded beyond the acquisition topic to cover business history more generally.

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* 2015 podcast debuts Audio podcasts Business and finance podcasts {{Podcasting-stub