Announcement: Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall!

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 with our good friends at J.P. Morgan Payments. Well, the big announcement is finally here: We are doing our 2025 Live Show… at Radio City Music Hall!

Radio City is of course the iconic New York City theater that hosts the Rockettes and the Tony Awards, and has hosted the Grammys, the MTV VMAs, and the NFL Draft. And it’s also a storied part of Rockefeller Center, as chronicled on our Standard Oil episodes. We can't think of anything more "Acquired".

If you want to be part of the ticket pre-sale, you can sign up at acquired.fm/nyc. While Radio City is the world's largest indoor theater (with room for 6,000 Acquired fans), more than 6,000 folks came to last year's Chase Center show! So get cracking on figuring out which friends and co-workers you want to go with (seats are assigned), and get your hotel + plane tickets booked! Tickets will be available in $100 and $200 tiers.

This is — without a doubt — the biggest undertaking we've ever done here at Acquired. In true Broadway fashion, we’re keeping the show details under wraps… but trust us, it'll be an evening of surprise and delight. If your idea of fun is the world’s greatest business and technology nerds gathering together for a night on the big stage, this is for you. Oh, and a huge thank you to all our friends at J.P. Morgan for making this possible.

We can't wait to see you there!

Sign up for ticket pre-sale: https://acquired.fm/nyc

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, Acquired listeners. We are coming to you today with huge news.
0:05.0	Huge news indeed. So last year, we did a live show in San Francisco in the biggest and best way Acquired could possibly imagine.
0:13.8	Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg in the iconic Chase Center arena with our friends from JP Morgan Payments.
0:20.7	There's no way to describe what that
0:23.4	was besides incredible. I mean, it was such a life experience. I remember I basically lost all
0:29.2	ability to speak for like a week afterwards. Yes, you did, David. But listeners, once the dust
0:35.1	settled and we did our post game with J.P. Morgan team, we all basically had the same idea.
0:40.2	We had to do next year in New York City. And we had to do it in a way that felt both uniquely New York and authentic to the Acquired Canon.
0:48.9	So today, we're announcing that Acquired Live is coming to Radio City Music Hall.
0:57.7	Woo!
0:58.2	Woo!
0:59.0	Radio City, of course, is not just the iconic New York City Theater that hosts the Rockettes,
1:04.5	the Tony Awards, has hosted the Grammys, the MTV VMAs, the NFL draft.
1:10.2	It's also a storied part of Rockefeller Center,
1:13.4	you know, like the physical legacy of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller and everything we talked
1:18.2	about on those episodes. All right. So, David, tell listeners, who's joining us? I mean,
1:22.2	last time we had Mark Zuckerberg. Ah, come on, Ben. That would spoil the fun.
1:27.6	Listeners, we are keeping that under wraps, but we can promise you it will be an evening of surprise and delight. The physical production of it itself is nuts. So one example that I was thinking of to kind of illustrate this, the stage itself is three times the width of the one that we had at Chase Center.
1:46.5	So you can use your imagination for how big everything about the show is going to be.
1:50.8	Yep. It's also acquired's 10-year anniversary, so there's that.
1:56.2	We'll need to do like a toast or something. Yeah. Plenty to celebrate. But listeners, in all
2:00.0	seriousness, we are not going to announce who's coming, what's happening, any of it. But yes, it is going to be
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 17 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.