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Acquired

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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies. Full episodes in every podcast player.

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We're a podcast that tells the stories and strategies of great companies

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It is one of the wilder facts in business history that Home Depot froze all new store openings and then…

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A little deleted scene from our Home Depot episode #collegegameday

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Amazing night with all of you and our friends at @getsentry. Thanks to everyone who came out for our 2026…

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The Home Depot had a very intentional strategy of entering a city and saturating that market with a dense…

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We found it. The perfect LinkedIn profile.

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In your podcast players now: Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got…

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Tomorrow.

Video by Acquired on September 04, 2026. May be an image of television, screen, poster and text that says 'ACQUIRED ESPN FUNDED THE DISNEY YOU LOVE IE MORLOWDE LEADER IN SPORTS m'.Video

ESPN Funded the Disney You Love 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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How Big Was Frozen? 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

Photo by Acquired on August 28, 2026. May be an image of text that says '$16B Cable became Disney's profit engine CABLE'S SHARE OF DISNEY'S SEGMENT PROFIT, 1999-2020 CABLENETIWOFKS.CONTAINSESP) ESPN) (CONTAINS OTHER OTHERBUSINESSES $14B $12B SIDB 88B $GB S4B 46% G0% 43 GEC BTS 58% コ3 58M สี4 4R% 36% 36% $2B 48x 38 495 43x 26g 28 27% 315 38+ 1999 2002 2000 2008 2011 2014 *Disncy stopped Icporting Cable etworks scparatcly after fter2020. 2020. Reported figures; definitions changc. includingjoint- joint- rO income Lountedi Cable nam 2006 6..9 Sources Disney Purmis O-Kand uil-year carrirgs releases (1999- -2020j 2017 ACQUIRED 2020 ឧុយ'.

One of the big takeaways from our Disney Part II episode is that ESPN's profits funded the entire rest of…

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The connection between Ichiro Suzuki and Disney+ 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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Why Steve Jobs Bought Pixar 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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Disney Paid $4 Billion for Marvel. What Did It Get? 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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How Pixar Actually Makes a Movie 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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How Disney Monetized Its Movie Library 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

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Steve Jobs' first $1 billion didn't come from Apple... 🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire…

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In your podcast players now! In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney…

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Tomorrow.

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Part II research trip. We had to.

Video by Acquired on July 24, 2026. May be a cartoon of text that says 'THE REAL EPOT WAS NOT A THEME PARK'.Video

EPCOT wasn't supposed to be just another theme park. Walt Disney's original, wild vision was for a 50-acre…

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In 1944, Disney accidentally created one of the greatest business strategies in entertainment history: they…

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Walt Disney accidentally invented entertainment's most powerful business model: the flywheel. And 100 years…

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