# acquired (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover acquired. Page: Feed: --- ## [Canadian Fintech: Why Moneris Sold 💳](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-why-moneris-sold) _2026-08-17 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Brdg gets funding for commercial lending. Fisent Series A. ## [Canadian Fintech: The winners & losers from the Filogix acquisition 🏆](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-the-winners-and) _2026-08-10 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ APOLLO Insurance acquired. Wealthsimple valued at $4.7b. ## [Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/disney-the-renaissance-and-the-empire) _2026-08-10 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled, salivating over offers to sell off the film library to MGM and offload the parks to hotel operators. But what followed instead was the greatest turnaround in media history under Michael Eisner and… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/4bcdc326/22e5d62f.mp3) ## [Donut Tread on Me](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/donut-tread-on-me) _2026-08-09 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ A tale of conscientious confection, based on actual events. ## [Canadian Fintech: Wealthsimple v Questrade 🥊](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-wealthsimple-v-questrade) _2026-08-04 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Apply to join the Money20/20 Canada Delegation! ## [Canadian Fintech: Coinbase Has Big Plans for Canada 🇨🇦](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-coinbase-has-big) _2026-07-27 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ KingSett acquires fintech. Shakepay joins e-Transfer. Terenet CEO out. ## [Canadian Fintech: Venn hits 15k clients 🏦](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-venn-hits-15k-clients) _2026-07-20 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Fig crosses $500m. National Bank makes another acquisition. ## [Canadian Fintech: TouchBistro Acquired 🍝](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-touchbistro-acquired) _2026-07-13 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Telpay buys Notch. Haventree launched digital bank. TD signs with Trust Science. ## [Canadian Fintech: Robinhood launches 🇨🇦](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-robinhood-launches) _2026-07-06 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Paystone files for creditor protection. Judi.ai gets funding from Conexus. ## [Canadian Fintech: Open banking rules are here 🥹](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-open-banking-rules) _2026-06-29 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Float does Series C. Blossom is a crowdfunding machine. Composer acquired. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MyPgbAL0vFS7) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Canadian Fintech: Prediction markets are here 🔮](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-prediction-markets) _2026-06-22 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ EQ Bank launched small business cards. Questrade launches custom indexing. ## [The Walt Disney Company](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-walt-disney-company) _2026-06-22 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the childhood memories of billions of people (including, likely, all of you) and is a reliable, predictable profitable business. But it didn’t start that way. During Walt’s era, Disney operated like an… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/04eefe71/39c635fd.mp3) ## [Canadian Fintech: Two Unicorns 🦄](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-two-unicorns) _2026-06-15 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Nuvei buys Payoneer. Introducing the New Money Index. ## [Canadian Fintech: Canadian pensions back fintech 🤝](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-canadian-pensions) _2026-06-09 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Borrowell hits 4m users. Neo breaks up with Tims. Pricepoint raises. ## [Canadian Fintech: Wealthsimple IPO 🤑](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-wealthsimple-ipo) _2026-06-01 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Purpose & OSC lock horns. Canadian banks are getting out of South America. ## [Canadian Fintech: Crazy new chapter in the Planswell saga 😅](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-crazy-new-chapter) _2026-05-25 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Pension Plan acquires ISC. Wealthsimple launches so many new features. Toronto Tech Week events. ## [Canadian Fintech: KOHO the Telco? ☎️](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-koho-the-telco) _2026-05-19 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ AI for Accountants or AI Accountants? CMI and MOF upsize their facilities. ## [Vanguard](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/vanguard) _2026-05-18 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Vanguard is the most effective vehicle ever created for participating in the fruits of American capitalism. Today it’s the single largest equity owner of the majority of corporations in the S&P 500, on behalf of 50 million clients (including, likely, many of you). And yet Vanguard itself is essentially a communist organization — it has no shareholders, makes no profits, and operates more like REI… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/ee9d0817/c12627bd.mp3) ## [Canadian Fintech: Big week for stablecoins 🪙](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-big-week-for-stablecoins) _2026-05-11 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Neo joins Payments Canada. Wealthsimple settles over weekends. Moneris sold? ## [Canadian Fintech: Shopify's Fintech Licenses 🛍️](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-shopifys-fintech) _2026-05-04 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Lightspeed sells off US business. Venn at 10k. ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KPBUs0znvCdX) _2026-05-04 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Canadian Fintech: Will the TMX deal get approved? 📈](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-will-the-tmx-deal) _2026-04-27 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Neo closes large debt financing. Venn & Float are twining. Shakepay clears regulatory hurdle. ## [Canadian Fintech: Wealthsimple ❤️ X](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-wealthsimple-x) _2026-04-20 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Tesla launching insurance in Canada? Common Wealth raises Series A. ## [Canadian Fintech: Why a digital bank bought a branch 🏦](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-why-a-digital-bank) _2026-04-13 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Rogers is getting into SMB banking. RBCx is getting into VC. ## [Ferrari](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/ferrari) _2026-04-13 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Ferrari is the pinnacle of luxury scarcity — across its entire 79-year history, the company has sold just 330,000 cars at an average price today of $500,000. For context, Hermès sells that many Birkins and Kellys roughly every 2 years, and Rolex moves that many watches every 3 months. And yet this ultimate luxury product also lives under the same roof with a widely beloved professional sports… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/9ca1df08/e400ba0d.mp3) ## [Canadian Fintech: Hopper's 1st Canadian Bank 🐇](https://canadianfintech.substack.com/p/canadian-fintech-hoppers-1st-canadian) _2026-04-07 · Tal Schwartz · Canadian Fintech_ Polymarket nooooo ☠️. Kubra's big acquisition. ## [Formula 1](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/formula-1) _2026-03-02 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Formula 1 is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-person teams spend hundreds of millions designing cars from scratch, and — as one of our listeners perfectly put it — the “Real Housewives of the Garage”, a soap opera of billionaire egos, team politics, and paddock drama that makes for incredible reality… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/93e7bac7/9d4b12b6.mp3) ## [An Acquired Taste on The Page Turner Show](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/an-acquired-taste-on-the-page-turner) _2026-02-21 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ An interview I did with Annie J., host of The Page Turner Show on Spokane's KYRS Radio. ## [The Entail Club](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/the-entail-club) _2026-01-30 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ A short satirical piece about a Victorian Era Gentleman's Club and three gentlemen (ahem) who belonged, strictly speaking. ## [The NFL](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-nfl) _2026-01-27 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ The NFL is nearly synonymous with America today. Practically nothing is more quintessentially and universally American than tuning in every Sunday (and Monday, and Thursday… and sometimes Saturdays and holidays too) to watch the world’s most beautiful ballet of violence. It generates the most revenue of any sports league globally and sets new records for team valuations each year. But it wasn’t… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/87d6503d/b2af8272.mp3) ## [Rolex](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/rolex) _2026-01-03 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Rolex is a series of paradoxes. They sell obsolete and objectively inferior mechanical devices for 10-1000x the price of their superior digital successors… and demand is stronger than ever in history! Their products are comparable to a Hermès Birkin bag in price, luxury status and waitlist times… yet they produce over 1m units / year (roughly 10x annual Birkin production). They make the most… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/7bea4e45/0aa48fa3.mp3) ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pHKY8CCfdMEh) _2026-01-03 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Costco](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco) _2026-01-02 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch), it’s an absolutely fascinating study in how seemingly opposite characteristics can combine to create incredible company value. For instance: Costco has the cheapest prices of any major retailer in America — and also the wealthiest customer base. They pay their hourly workers 30% above the industry… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/fcf31c71/acf1c31d.mp3) ## [10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/10-years-of-acquired-with-michael-lewis) _2025-12-15 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Why has Acquired — seemingly against all odds — “worked”? It's a puzzling question: episodes are four hours long, they come out infrequently, and they usually don’t have guests or video. Hardly the standard-issue playbook for podcasting success! And yet well over a million smart, curious and exceedingly busy humans share their (your!) valuable time with us every month. Why? This is the exact… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/0f470567/18269289.mp3) ## [Coca-Cola](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/coca-cola) _2025-11-24 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Coca-Cola is… sugar water. And somehow it’s also America, Christmas, summertime, friendship and happiness. Today we tell the story of how The Coca-Cola Company amazingly transmogrified a beverage into emotion in all of our collective psyches, and ALSO built one of the most incredible scale economy businesses of all-time. And oh yeah, there’s also cocaine, WW2, Mad Men, Warren Buffett, James Dean,… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/95f9fcf7/68ea94eb.mp3) ## [Found Poetry - Massive God](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/found-poetry-massive-god) _2025-10-31 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ An exercise I taught in my 6th Grade Creative Writing class today. Take a piece of prose (in this case a news article) and find poetry within. ## [Trader Joe’s](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/trader-joes) _2025-10-27 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Trader Joe's breaks every rule of modern retail. They don't do e-commerce. They don't do delivery. No sales, coupons, or loyalty programs. They only stock 4,000 SKUs versus 50,000+ at normal supermarkets. Their parking lots are famously terrible and they're constantly out of your favorite items. Shoppers brave long lines and cramped aisles while overly-friendly employees in Hawaiian shirts try to… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/8d72cb9c/19650029.mp3) ## [Google Part III: The AI Company](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company) _2025-10-06 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ Google faces the greatest innovator's dilemma in history. They invented the Transformer — the breakthrough technology powering every modern AI system from ChatGPT to Claude (and, of course, Gemini). They employed nearly all the top AI talent: Ilya Sutskever, Geoff Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei — more or less everyone who leads modern AI worked at Google circa 2014. They built the best… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/701dc613/9f822931.mp3) ## [Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/acquired-live-at-radio-city-music-hall-presented-by-j-p-morgan) _2025-10-01 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ It’s finally here! Today we are releasing Acquired’s first “concert film” — the full video recording of our Radio City live show from this summer with Jamie Dimon, Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien, Barry Diller, and cameos from around the Acquired Cinematic Universe including Christina Cacioppo, Ben Clymer, and Howard Schultz. To watch the full production on any device,… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/6f730593/d29fa674.mp3) ## [Echo Lake Psalm](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/echo-lake-psalm) _2025-09-03 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ Written after a twilight kayak on Echo Lake, Montana ## [Google Part II: Alphabet](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/alphabet-inc) _2025-08-26 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ In its first six years from 1998 to 2004, Google built one of the greatest products of all time (and certainly the greatest business of all time) with Search. Then in its next six years from 2005 to 2011, Google built seven (!) more billion+ user products: Gmail, Maps, Drive and Docs, YouTube, Chrome, Android, and Photos — all either started from scratch internally or acquired as startups that… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/8296b628/7f670b87.mp3) ## [The Jamie Dimon Interview](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-jamie-dimon-interview) _2025-07-16 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ We sit down with Jamie Dimon for a live conversation at Radio City Music Hall, covering the incredible journey from his 1998 firing at Citgroup (where he was widely expected to become CEO) to building the most powerful bank in the world. Today JPMorgan Chase is a juggernaut — the most systemically important non-governmental financial institution in the world, with over twice the market… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/621b1ddd/5b08fc34.mp3) ## [Thomas](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/thomas) _2025-07-03 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ A poem based on today's Gospel reading (John 20:24-29) ## [Canadian Rockies Truck Stop](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/canadian-rockies-truck-stop) _2025-07-02 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ Poetic flash fiction I wrote while on a road trip last week ## [Google Part I: Origins of Search](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google) _2025-06-30 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called BackRub, Google became the front door to the internet. Today it’s an essential service for over half the world, and one that generates more profit than ANY other US company — more than Apple, Microsoft, or Berkshire Hathaway. But it wasn’t always so obvious. When… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/d927288f/d5b2a4ff.mp3) ## [The Steve Ballmer Interview](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-steve-ballmer-interview) _2025-06-02 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve listened to our Microsoft episodes and had some thoughts to share — and boy, did he deliver. Steve takes us point-by-point through the original IBM DOS deal that started everything, how he built Microsoft's enterprise business from… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/6a598848/caeda411.mp3) ## [Epic Systems (MyChart)](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/epic-systems-mychart) _2025-04-21 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ What if we told you that the most important company in US healthcare was run from a farm in rural Wisconsin? And that farm contained the world’s largest subterranean auditorium, as well as Disneyland—style replicas of Hogwarts and the Emerald City? What if we told you that the person who started, runs and owns this establishment has legally ensured that it will never be sold, never go public and… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/da990430/4c8bb4df.mp3) ## [Titanic: The Morning After](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/titanic-the-morning-after) _2025-04-16 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ This won't become a habit, but here's a little experiment I did with ChatGPT, asking it to write an alternate "sequel" to Jack & Rose's Titanic story, one in which they live. ## [Reconciliation](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/reconciliation) _2025-04-03 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ A poem written before and after I took the Sacrament of Reconciliation this evening. ## [Indian Premier League Cricket](https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/indian-premier-league-cricket) _2025-03-24 · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Acquired_ When you saw this episode pop up in your feed, you either jumped for joy and hit play immediately (in which case you’re not reading this), or you said “Huh. That’s a surprising episode.” Well, if you’re in group two, boy do we have a treat for you! IPL is the fastest-growing, most dynamic and most disruptive force in the sports industry today… and this may come as a shock to many Americans, but it… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/c5d05bfb/3bc12ad7.mp3) ## [Clagstone](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/clagstone) _2025-03-17 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ A short poem I wrote today during a hike in the Clagstone Meadows Conservation Area north of Coeur d'Alene. ## [Sunday Morning/Sunday Evening](https://allofitstrue.substack.com/p/sunday-morningsunday-evening) _2025-03-03 · Mark Griswold · All of it's true... Some of it really happened._ The truly important moment are often captured in the quotidian.