Acquired

Hosted by Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal·Founders of Kindergarten Ventures

Listeners / episode

~410K

300K–560K rangeHigh confidence

Cadence

Bi-weekly

Mondays

YouTube

180K

subscribers

Apple

Apple · Business

Spotify

4.9

Spotify · 21.8K ratings

Episodes

184

since 2015

AI-generated

What this show is about

Multi-hour deep dives on the founding, strategy, and lessons of iconic tech companies. Audience skews founder / operator / investor, average listen time is unusually high, making it a premium slot for enterprise SaaS and financial services brands.

Generated from 12 recent transcripts·Verified against publisher copy·Refreshed 4 days ago

Recent · 184 total

Recent episodes

#218How Cursor reached $500M ARR — Michael TruellMay 8, 20261h 42m

#217Inside Notion's AI rebuild — Akshay KothariMay 1, 20261h 18m

#216Pricing for the AI era — Madhavan RamanujamApr 24, 20261h 09m

#215The new PM job ladder — Shreyas DoshiApr 17, 20261h 31m

YouTube Analytics

12-mo view trend, 340K subs

Apple Podcasts Charts

Daily rank, US Tech category

Spotify Public Popularity

Popularity score 78/100

Chartable historical rank

365-day chart history

Transcript scrape

Last 90 days · 12 episodes

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Publisher disclosure

Not disclosed by show

We weight Apple chart history (40%), Spotify popularity (25%), YouTube view trend (25%) and prior estimates from Chartable (10%). Bands are derived from the 10th–90th percentile of comparable shows in the same category.

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At a glance

First episodeApr 14, 2022

Avg. duration1h 18m

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

Ad slots / ep2 pre · 1 mid

CPM est.$45–60