David Rosenthal

@djrosent

About the author

David Rosenthal is a venture capitalist and co-host, with Ben Gilbert, of Acquired, a podcast they started in 2015 that tells the full histories of major companies. After working on Wall Street and at The Wall Street Journal, he earned an MBA at Stanford and joined the Seattle venture firm Madrona Venture Group, where he met Gilbert. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

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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