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Ben Gilbert

Co-host of the Acquired podcast on company histories

The latest interviews, podcast appearances, and blog posts from Ben Gilbert, updated daily.

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8 days ago
Sep 14

The Home Depot: The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 since IPO (Audio)

Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got fired, went broke, and stacked empty paint cans ten feet high to look legitimate.

Acquired
6 weeks ago
Aug 10

Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive.

Acquired
4 months ago
Jun 2

What Acquired's hosts learned from studying the greatest companies in history — WorkOS

What do Hermes, Ferrari, Apple, and Google have in common? They leaned into what made them weird.

WorkOS
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