A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast

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David Senra

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert — of the Acquired podcast — invited me to San Francisco for a discussion on our mutual obsession: spending every waking hour studying the history of entrepreneurship and sharing those lessons on our podcasts.

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0:00.0	So I'm about to do something that have never done before. I've been working on this podcast for over six years,
0:04.3	read over 300 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs, well over 100,000 pages.
0:09.8	And in that entire time, you have never heard another voice on this feed besides my own.
0:16.1	But I want to make sure you don't miss this conversation with David and Ben from the acquired
0:19.9	podcast.
0:20.9	So right after my dinner with Charlie Munger I flew directly from Los Angeles to
0:24.4	San Francisco because David and Ben very graciously invited me to be a guest on
0:28.2	their world-class podcast. What you're about to hear is a three hour long
0:32.0	conversation between three people that are so obsessed with studying the history of entrepreneurship that they're dedicating it's their life's work.
0:39.5	They're dedicating almost every waking hour to do so to finding great ideas from the past and then sharing
0:45.7	those ideas on our podcasts so future generations of entrepreneurs, founders and investors can
0:51.4	benefit.
0:52.4	And as you already know, I've been obsessed with David Olgaevi ever since I was reading
0:55.4	Warren Buffett's shareholder letters and Warren Buffett said that David Olgaevi was a genius.
0:59.6	I then went and found every single book that he ever wrote or was written about him and read it and there's a line in one of the biographies of David Olgaevi that says David Olgaevi was building his first class business in a first class way. Ben and David of acquired are doing the exact same thing.
1:15.0	I believe that acquired and founders are perfect compliments to one another.
1:19.0	I focus on the founder, the actual individual and the person through biographies.
1:22.0	They do these hours long, really in-depth company histories that are just absolutely excellent.
1:29.0	If you do not already follow acquired in your favorite podcast player, Please do so right now and start with their
1:34.4	episode on the history of LVMH. It is one of the best episodes that I've ever heard and I've
1:40.0	been obsessed with podcasts for over 13 years now. I would listen to that
1:44.1	episode first but their episode on Walmart is excellent. There are three-part
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