Acquired

We picked Acquired because no other podcast does corporate history this way. Each episode is a three-to-six-hour read of a company’s entire arc, told from primary sources the hosts work through on tape. Ben and David treat business stories as engineering problems and narrative puzzles, not morality tales. The result is closer to long-form business history than a podcast—durable, opinionated, and dense enough that the second listen is better than the first.