Ben Gilbert

@gilbert

About the author

Ben Gilbert is the co-founder and co-host of Acquired, a podcast he started with David Rosenthal in 2015 that tells the history and strategy of a single major company in each long, heavily researched episode. Before the show became his full-time work, he was a software engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on Office for iPad, and then built and invested in startups at Madrona Venture Group and Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle.

Memos, letters and research

All research

Acquired Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal's multi-hour histories of great companies, including Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, Renaissance Technologies and TSMC. Free, well-researched business case studies that teach how durable franchises are built.

Podcast Foundational Roughly monthly long-form episodes since 2015