Archive - Acquired Briefing

Bernard Arnault turned a $15m investment in a bankrupt French textile company into the world’s largest fortune. The story is equal parts Berkshire…

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Indian Premier League

IPL is the fastest-growing, most dynamic and most disruptive force in the sports industry today… and it might just be on track to surpass the NFL as the…

Nov 13 •

Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang gives his perspective on building a trillion dollar company.

Nov 6 •

October 2025

How on earth did a company that breaks every rule of modern retail build the most beloved grocery chain in America?

Oct 28 •

TSMC (Remastered)

The unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of them all: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

Oct 23 •

Ben and David sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger months before his death in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in…

Oct 16 •

This isn’t a tricky business. We just tried to sell high quality merchandise at a lower cost than everybody else.

Oct 9 •

Google III (2015 - 2025)

This is the story of how the world’s greatest business faces its greatest test: can they disrupt themselves without losing their $140B annual…

Oct 6 •

Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. $1,000 invested in their flagship Medallion fund in 1988 would have…

Oct 2 •

September 2025

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

This company has it all: a 100+ year history filled with Nobel Prizes, bitter rivalries, breakthrough innovation, lone voices persevering against all…

Sep 25 •

A huge portion of the world’s population uses their products on a daily basis (you might say Visa is… everywhere people want to be), but very few know…

Sep 18 •

Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on earth than…

Sep 11 •

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