Acquired Bookshelf
204 books · 93 episodes
Home Depot

Built from Scratch
Home Depot

Kick up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself
Home Depot

I Love Capitalism!
Home Depot

Good Company
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

DisneyWar
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

Work in Progress
The Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Animated Man
The Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney : An American Original
The Walt Disney Company

Building a Company
The Walt Disney Company

The Disney Version
Vanguard

Stay the Course
Vanguard

Bogle Effect
Ferrari

Enzo
Ferrari

Go Like Hell
Formula 1

Formula
Coca-Cola

For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola

Secret Formula
Trader Joe's

Becoming Trader Joe
Trader Joe's

Build a Brand Like Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's

The Secret Life of Groceries
Google: The AI Company

Empire of AI
Google: The AI Company

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Google: The AI Company

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
Google Part III: The AI Company

The Great Robot Race
Alphabet Inc.

In the Plex
Alphabet Inc.

Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance
Google: The Origin of Search

How Google Works
Google: The Origin of Search

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Google: The Origin of Search

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
Google: The Origin of Search

The Google Story
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Home Game
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Moneyball
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Liar's Poker
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

The Blind Side
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

The Undoing Project
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

The Name of the Wind
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Last Man Standing
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

The Art of Spending Money
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

The Emperors of Chocolate
Indian Premier League Cricket

Not Out!
Rolex

The Book of Rolex
Rolex

The Watch Book Rolex
Rolex

The Best of Time: Rolex Wristwatches
Rolex

The Rolex Story
Rolex

Little Book of Rolex
Rolex

Selling the Crown: The Secret History of Marketing Rolex
Mars Inc.

The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
Mars Inc.

Crisis in Candyland: Melting the Chocolate Shell of the Mars Family Empire
Mars Inc.

The Power, Privilege, and Legacy of the Mars Family Empire
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

The Mars Family
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Great Moments in Chocolate History
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Mars Family
IKEA

A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
IKEA

Strategic Sourcing and Category Management
IKEA

The IKEA Edge
IKEA

Ikea: How to Become the World’s Richest Man
Meta

Microsoft Volume II

Hardcore Software
Microsoft Volume II

Microsoft Story
Microsoft Volume II

Breaking Windows
Microsoft Volume II

Hit Refresh
Microsoft Volume II

Microsoft 2.0
Microsoft Volume II

World War 3.0
Microsoft Volume I

The Road Ahead
Microsoft Volume I

Idea Man
Microsoft Volume I

Hard Drive
Microsoft Volume I

Overdrive
Microsoft Volume I

Gates
Microsoft Volume I

Undocumented Windows
Renaissance Technologies

The Man Who Solved the Market
Renaissance Technologies

The Quants
Hermès

Little Book of Hermès
Hermès

The Score Takes Care of Itself
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Breakthrough
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Wool
Holiday Special 2023

The Psychology of Money
Holiday Special 2023

The Artist's Way
Holiday Special 2023

Transitions
Holiday Special 2023

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Visa

Electronic Value Exchange Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System
Visa

VISA : The Power of an Idea
Visa

One from Many
Visa

A Piece of the Action
Visa

The Final Empire
Costco

Sol Price
Nike

Shoe Dog
Nike

Swoosh
Nike

Just Do It
Nike

Emotion by Design
Nike

Nike: Better Is Temporary
Nike

Out of Nowhere
Nike

Win at All Costs
Nike

University of Nike
Nike

Nike Culture
Nike

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
Nike

7 Powers
Porsche

Porsche: Excellence Was Expected
Lockheed Martin

Beyond the Horizons
Lockheed Martin

Skunk Works : A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Lockheed Martin

Prophets of War
Nintendo's Origins

Game Over
Nintendo's Origins

Console Wars
Nintendo's Origins

Power-Up
Nintendo's Origins

Ask Iwata
Nintendo's Origins

Range
Nintendo's Origins

The Ultimate History of Video Games
Nintendo's Origins

The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2
LVMH

The Taste of Luxury
LVMH

Les Trois Mousquetaires
LVMH

The Luxury Strategy
The NFL

America's Game
The NFL

The League
The NFL

Pigskin
Enron

Conspiracy of Fools
Qualcomm

The Qualcomm Equation
Qualcomm

Principles of Communication Engineering
Amazon Web Services

Amazon Unbound
Amazon.com

The Left Hand of Darkness
Walmart

Sam Walton
Walmart

The Wal-Mart Effect : How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works-- and How It's Transforming the American Economy - 1. Ed.
Walmart

In Sam We Trust
Walmart

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

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

Memory's Legion
SONY

Sony: A Private Life
SONY

Becoming Steve Jobs
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

Rabbits
Standard Oil Part I

Titan
TSMC

Who Is Michael Ovitz?
TSMC (Remastered)

Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry
Andreessen Horowitz Part II

Childhood’s End
Andreessen Horowitz Part I

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Andreessen Horowitz Part I

The Elephant in the Brain
Ethereum (with Packy McCormick)

The Infinite Machine
Ethereum (with Packy McCormick)

The Diamond Age
Berkshire Hathaway Part III

Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Part III

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Berkshire Hathaway Part II

Damn Right
Berkshire Hathaway Part II

Liar's Poker
Berkshire Hathaway Part I

Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Part I

Poor Charlie's Almanack
Berkshire Hathaway Part I

The Snowball
Rec Room Part II

Invent and Wander
Meituan

Extraterrestrial
The New York Times Company

The Trust
The New York Times Company

The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at the New York Times
The New York Times Company

Titan
AirBnb

The Upstarts
Epic Games

Foundation Complete Series Set, 7 Books. Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Foundation's Edge, Prelude to Foundation, Foundation and Earth, Forward the Foundation
Pinduoduo

How to Make a Spaceship
Oprah (Harpo Studios)

Oprah
SpaceX

Elon Musk
Adapting Episode 3: Intel

Only the Paranoid Survive
Adapting Episode 3: Intel

Andrew S. Grove's Swimming Across
Disney Plus

The Ride of a Lifetime
Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

Done Deals
Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

Troublemakers
Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

VC: An American History
Google Maps

The Pilgrim's Progress
Huawei

Dune
Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

Boom Town
ESPN

The Outsiders
Netflix (Part 1)

The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
Venmo (SF live show with Andrew Kortina)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Behance (with Scott Belsky)

The Messy Middle
Alibaba

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Alibaba

A Tale of Two Cities
The Sonos IPO

Brotopia
PowerPoint

Mindfulness in Plain English
SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

eBoys
SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

Three-Body Problem
Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt

Ready Player One
Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt

Seveneves
Zappos (with Alfred Lin)

Gulliver's Travels
Zappos (with Alfred Lin)

Benjamin Franklin
2017 Holiday Special

His Dark Materials
2017 Holiday Special

Wooden on Leadership
The Stitch Fix IPO

Coach Wooden and Me
The Atlassian IPO

Born to Run
AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

Give and Take
AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The LA Clippers

Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
Overture (with the Internet History Podcast)

Dark Valley
The Snap Inc. IPO

The Art of War
The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger

The Upstarts
The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger

Sapiens
P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Daily Rituals
Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

On Writing Well
Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

The Creative Habit
The Amazon IPO

Hamlet
The Facebook IPO

Connectography
Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

Algorithms to Live By
Jet

The Everything Store
Special‚ An Acquirer's View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

Mindset
ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

The Score Takes Care of Itself

The Facebook Effect
Virgin America

Business Adventures
Pixar
