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    The Walt Disney Company

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    Vanguard

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    Ferrari

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    Formula 1

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    The NFL

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    Rolex

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    Costco

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    10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

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    Coca-Cola

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    Trader Joe’s

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    Google Part III: The AI Company

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    Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)

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    Google Part II: Alphabet

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    The Jamie Dimon Interview

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    Google Part I: Origins of Search

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    The Steve Ballmer Interview

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    Epic Systems (MyChart)

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    Indian Premier League Cricket

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    TSMC Founder Morris Chang

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    Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

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    IKEA

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    Meta

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    Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

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    The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

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    Chase Center + Summer Update

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    Microsoft Volume II

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    Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

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    Microsoft Volume I

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    Renaissance Technologies

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    Hermès

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    Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

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    Holiday Special 2023

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    Visa

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    Charlie Munger

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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

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    Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

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    Nike

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    Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

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    Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

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    Lockheed Martin

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

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    Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

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    Short: The Death of Sega

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    Nintendo: The Console Wars

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    Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

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    Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

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    Nintendo's Origins

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    LVMH

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    Holiday Special 2022

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    Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

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    Enron

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    Qualcomm

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    Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

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    ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

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    Benchmark Part I

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    Amazon Web Services

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    Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

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    Amazon.com

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    From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

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    Walmart

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    The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

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    American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

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    Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

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    Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)

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    Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

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    Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

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    Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

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    Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

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    Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

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    SONY

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    Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

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    The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

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    Peloton

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    Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

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    CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

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    FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

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    7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer

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    Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

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    Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)

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    Standard Oil Part II

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    Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More

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    Standard Oil Part I

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    TSMC

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    Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

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    Andreessen Horowitz Part II

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    Andreessen Horowitz Part I

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    Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

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    Ethereum

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    Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC

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    Berkshire Hathaway Part III

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    Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

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    Berkshire Hathaway Part II

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    Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)

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    Berkshire Hathaway Part I

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    Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)

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    Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)

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    Meituan

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    The New York Times Company

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    Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)

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    Bitcoin

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    Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

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    Airbnb

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    DoorDash

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    Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring

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    Virgin Galactic

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    Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)

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    Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

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    Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

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    The NBA

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    Special: Acquired x My First Million

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    Epic Games

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    Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

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    Pinduoduo

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    Oprah (Harpo Studios)

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    SpaceX

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    Adapting Episode 3: Intel

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    Special Episode: Jason Calacanis

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    Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)

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    Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

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    The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

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    Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)

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    WhatsApp

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    The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)

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    Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

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    TikTok

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    Disney, Plus

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