Podcast appearances and mentions of David Rosenthal

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 scratch, and offers his candid reflections on missing mobile and search. We also cover the story behind “developers, developers, developers”, the complexities of his relationship with Bill Gates (including a year where they didn't speak), and why he ultimately decided to step down as CEO. Plus, we learn why Steve has held onto his Microsoft stock through it all — giving him arguably the best investment track record in the world over the last 10 years with his net worth growing from $20B to $130B since leaving. And of course, we couldn't resist also talking about his other passion: the Clippers and Intuit Dome. Hit play and get ready to experience the patented Steve Ballmer energy and fun on full display!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Summer ‘25 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigVercelAnthropicLinks:Join us July 15 at Radio City!More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 with our good friends at J.P. Morgan Payments. Well, the big announcement is finally here: We are doing our 2025 Live Show…  at Radio City Music Hall!Radio City is of course the iconic New York City theater that hosts the Rockettes and the Tony Awards, and has hosted the Grammys, the MTV VMAs, and the NFL Draft. And it's also a storied part of Rockefeller Center, as chronicled on our Standard Oil episodes. We can't think of anything more "Acquired".If you want to be part of the ticket pre-sale, you can sign up at acquired.fm/nyc. While Radio City is the world's largest indoor theater (with room for 6,000 Acquired fans), more than 6,000 folks came to last year's Chase Center show! So get cracking on figuring out which friends and co-workers you want to go with (seats are assigned), and get your hotel + plane tickets booked! Tickets will be available in $100 and $200 tiers.This is — without a doubt — the biggest undertaking we've ever done here at Acquired. In true Broadway fashion, we're keeping the show details under wraps… but trust us, it'll be an evening of surprise and delight. If your idea of fun is the world's greatest business and technology nerds gathering together for a night on the big stage, this is for you. Oh, and a huge thank you to all our friends at J.P. Morgan for making this possible.We can't wait to see you there!Sign up for ticket pre-sale: https://acquired.fm/nyc

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 never acquire another company? And that this person, Judy Faulkner, is also likely the wealthiest and most successful self-made woman in history?Welcome to the story of Epic Systems, the software company that underpins the majority of the American healthcare system today. Epic isn't “just” an electronic medical record (the category it's usually lumped into), or an online patient portal (which is how most of the US population interacts with it via its MyChart application). It's more akin to a central nervous system for hospitals and health clinics. Almost everything in a hospital — from patient interactions to billing, staffing, scheduling, prescriptions and even research — happens on Epic's platform, and over 90% of American medical schools' graduating doctors, nurses and health administrative staff are trained on it during their educations. Tune in as we dive into the almost-unbelievable story of how this epic company came to be!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Spring ‘25 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsFundriseServiceNowCrusoeLinks:Save the date, July 15 in NYC!Epic's Verona campusWorldly Partners' Multi-Decade Epic Systems StudyEpisode sourcesCarve Outs:Ken Block in San FranciscoNintendo Switch 2Knives OutBrat by Charli xcxMusic To Refine To: A Remix Companion to Severance by ODESZAMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

ABOUT VINOD MARURVinod Marur is the SVP of Engineering at Databricks. He was previously at Rubrik where he served as SVP Engineering and established a mature engineering organization geared for rapid product development and innovation with a deep focus on product quality and organizational development. Prior to that Vinod spent nearly 15 years in leadership roles across some of Google's most critical business units, including Search, Ads, and Payments as well as tapping into his passion for developer platforms to create and lead the Actions on Google platform, used by third parties to develop for Google Assistant and other Google products. Build AI Voice Agents with ElevenLabsElevenLabs is the leading Voice AI platform for developers with thousands of ultra-realistic, human-like voices across 32 languages.Developers use ElevenLabs to build life-like, conversational AI voice agents to handle customer support queries, appointment scheduling, and even offer personalized 1-1 tutoring.Get started for free at elevenlabs.io/elc SHOW NOTES:Vinod's process for recalibrating his leadership focus / priorities (2:25)Why routine can be dangerous & the mental shift required to prioritize impact (4:17)Examples of pivoting & how Vinod's leadership priorities adapted (7:57)Strategies for assessing core priorities when scaling (9:39)Identifying where the most leverage is for your time (11:05)Signals that it's time to recalibrate your organization's priorities (13:27)Solving for information asymmetry: designing communication and collaboration structures (16:20)Rewriting hiring playbooks & tailoring recruitment pitches in a shifting market (18:56)Hiring tactics that worked five years ago that don't anymore (21:21)The impact of AI on hiring practices (22:55)Current factors impacting hiring engineering leaders (25:30)Vinod's framework for identifying the right problems to solve when transitioning to a new role (27:14)“The best leaders often start small, and progress to tackle larger problems” (28:33)Strategies for accelerating the impact of senior cross-functional partners (29:40)Obsessing over a single organizational goal & identifying champions to carry initiatives forward (31:25)Vinod's latest obsession: the implementation and evolution of operational reviews (33:48)Rapid fire questions (36:36)LINKS AND RESOURCESACQUIRED - Acquired tells the stories and strategies of great companies, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Acquired is a depth-first show. Episodes are 3-4 hours long, and are better described as "conversational audiobooks" than "podcasts." Episodes occasionally feature guests, such as the founders/CEOs of NVIDIA, Berkshire Hathaway, Starbucks, Meta, Spotify, Uber, Zoom, CAA, Sequoia Capital, and all five Benchmark partners.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

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 might just be on track to surpass the NFL as the world's most valuable sports league. The IPL is currently valued at $16B, with a TV rights deal that's higher in per-match dollars than the NBA and the English Premier League. And all this for a league that's right now just 10 teams who collectively only play 74 total games per season… and oh yeah, the whole thing is only 17 years old! Tune in for an absolutely amazing story, filled with genius, drama (Rupert Murdoch! Disney! Bollywood!) and a perfect encapsulation of the rise of modern India.Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Spring ‘25 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowFundriseCrusoeLinks:Save the date, July 15 in NYC!Ed Cowan's Business Breakdowns of IPLWorldly Partners' Multi-Decade IPL StudyEpisode sourcesCarve Outs:SeveranceStratecheryMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

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 universally recognized and desired Swiss watches… yet their founder wasn't Swiss and didn't start the company in Switzerland! If Rolex were publicly traded, they'd almost certainly be among the top 50 market cap companies in the world… yet they're 100% owned by a charitable foundation in Geneva that (among other things) literally just gives away money to local people in the city.Tune in for one of the most fascinating and admirable companies we've ever covered on Acquired. We had an absolute blast making the episode, and hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Spring ‘25 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowFundriseHuntressLinks:The Renaissance of the Swiss Watch Industry - Marc BridgeHODINKEE - Inside All Four Rolex Manufacturing Facilities“If you were…” campaignWorldly Partners' Multi-Decade Rolex StudyEpisode sourcesCarve Outs:BlueyAcquired on Armchair ExpertEleven ReaderMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal (Acquired) are hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast covering business history and strategy. Ben and David join the Armchair Expert on this special Super Bowl episode to discuss the metric of being right more often but having less fun, how the Super Bowl is the best weekend for a wedding, Disneyland, and Costco, and how LA refused to participate in early games due to segregation. David, Ben, and Dax talk about Teddy Roosevelt starting the NCAA in 1905 to prevent football fatalities, JFK passing antitrust legislation for televising football, and how the NFL uniquely collectivizes resources so all teams get equally distributed resources from league-wide television deals. Ben and David explain the breakdown of the gentleman's agreement between the AFL and NFL to not poach players, how the formation of the NFL compares to the founding of the United States, and why Monday Night Football revolutionized modern television.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video interview we could find was 17 years ago at the Computer History Museum… conducted by the one-and-only Jensen Huang! This episode came about after asking ourselves a version of the Jeff Bezos “regret minimization” question: what conversations would we most regret not having if the chance passed Acquired by? Dr. Chang was number one on our list, and thanks to a little help from Jensen himself, we're so happy to make it happen.Dr. Chang shares the stories of a few crucial moments from TSMC's history which have only been written about in his (currently Chinese-only) memoirs, including how TSMC won Apple's iPhone and Mac chip business and a 2009 discrepancy with NVIDIA that almost jeopardized their relationship, and the lessons he took from them. We can't think of a better way to kick off 2025. Please enjoy!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Spring ‘25 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowFundriseLinks:Worldly Partners' Multi-Decade TSMC StudyKarina Bao's writingCarve Outs:AAADefunctlandEverything Everywhere all at OnceAsianometryMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Today we're doing something new and having a dude into our podcast - but trust us, David Rosenthal from Retinue Accounting is not a boring accountant. We're diving into the money chat that usually makes entrepreneurs want to hide under their desk, but David somehow takes the ick out of talking about cash flow and balance sheets. We have plenty of "holy shit, I didn't know that" moments and real talk about not letting your business finances turn into a total dumpster fire. David brings the knowledge without the put-you-to-sleep accounting mumbo jumbo, and we're here for every minute of it.Sidenote: Soz about Rah's sound, the microphone at the studio is stuffed. Fingers crossed it's fixed soon.Number of fucks given in this episode: 12Links to everything we mention can be found on our website: https://www.faroundandfindoutpodcast.com.au/episodes/31Text us about this episode.---

We dive into the unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of them all: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Founded in 1987 by the then-56 year old Morris Chang, already a legend in the semiconductor industry by virtue of his meteoric rise and fall at Texas Instruments, TSMC today manufactures nearly all the leading-edge chips for Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm, AMD, and yes — even Intel. Tune in for an incredible story of innovation, perseverance and lasers. Lots and lots of lasers!Note: this is a remastered version of our original 2021 episode. We don't often re-release old episodes, but in this case we have a very timely reason for doing so. Stay tuned! :)Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic partners:VantaJ.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigLinks:Episode SourcesCarve Outs:Ted Lasso (Season 1)GreekWho is Michael Ovitz?More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

M&M's, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben's Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all the brands you know, owned by the company you know nothing about: Mars, Incorporated. And Mars itself is 100% owned and deeply intertwined with the Mars family, who are currently the second wealthiest (and perhaps first most secretive!) family in the United States. Tune in for one of the 20th century's most incredible entrepreneurial stories across candy and pet care, and one that's all the more incredible because it's so little-known!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Fall ‘24 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsCrusoeStatsigLinks:Hershey's M&M response: Hershey-etsOur past episodes on Berkshire Hathaway, LVMH, and Novo NordiskWorldly Partners Multi-Decade Mars StudyEpisode sourcesCarve Outs:Dandelion Chocolate and the Dandelion Advent CalendarTesla Model Y + repair serviceSiloHome AloneMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

In this episode, we break down everything you need to know about Australia's instant asset write-off. Discover how it works, which assets qualify, and why it's a must-know for small business owners. Whether you're purchasing tools, vehicles, or equipment, this initiative can save you thousands. We also cover common misconceptions and tips to avoid missing out.Stay tuned till the end for expert advice on timing your purchases for maximum tax savings.Watch the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/IL4CYgR12YwDiscussion Points: 00:00 Second part: $20,000 instant asset write-off discussion.06:14 What is the most common asset?08:01 Temporary equipment budget changes annually until 2025.10:54 Selling a written-off car incurs taxable profit.13:46 Early tax deduction through financed asset acquisition.17:19 Seek advice on timing for asset write-offs.Resources:Visit Retinue's website at www.retinue.com.com.auGet in touch with David at david.rosenthal@retinue.com.au Welcome back to The Site Shed Podcast! If you're in the trades and wondering how to integrate AI into your business, Tradie Hub has you covered. Discover innovative ways to reduce labour costs, increase efficiency, and leverage AI for growth. Check out Tradie Hub at tradiehub.net and see how they're transforming the trade industry with cutting-edge AI solutions! Enjoyed the podcast? Take your trade business to the next level by incorporating AI! Don't get left behind—explore Tradie Hub at tradiehub.net. Discover game-changing AI solutions designed to boost efficiency and growth for trade businesses worldwide. Check it out today! Check this out: Guarantee 30 Qualified Project Quotes Over The Next 90 Days! Learn more here: https://tradie.wiki/pod Learn more about the CRM that DOES IT ALL for your trade business! Just click on this link: https://tradiehub.net Join a global community of 6000+ trade professionals https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheSiteShed Connect with me on LinkedIn. For more podcast episodes, you can also visit our website. Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this podcast and this series, please take 5 to leave us a review: Google Facebook Podcast

IKEA may be the most singular company we've ever studied on Acquired. They're a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company with no direct competitors — yet have only ~5% market share. They're one of the largest retailers in the world — yet sell only their own products. They generate a few billion in free cash flow every year — yet have no shareholders. And oh yeah, they also sell hot dogs cheaper than Costco! (Sort of.)Tune in for an episode flat-packed with counterintuitive lessons about how this folksy mail order business from the Swedish countryside came into your living rooms (and bedrooms and dining rooms and kitchens and bathrooms and patios and garages and backyards) all over the globe!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Fall ‘24 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigCrusoeLinks:Please take our 2024 Acquired Survey if you have a minute. It'd mean the world to us!The Testament of a Furniture DealerOur past episodes on Costco, Walmart, Amazon, LVMH and HermèsWorldly Partners Multi-Decade IKEA StudyEpisode sourcesCarve Outs:DetroitersThe 11-inch iPad ProThe QB SchoolIce Cube at the World SeriesMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Choosing the right trade-based business structure is crucial for every Aussie trades person aiming to succeed in 2025. In this episode, we cover the ins and outs of starting as a sole trader, partnership, PTY LTD company, or trust. Learn how each structure affects taxes, liability, and the ease of expanding your business. If you're considering starting or restructuring your trade-based business, this guide will equip you with the knowledge to protect your assets and grow your venture effectively.Watch the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/8CDuj469fMYDiscussion Points: 00:00 Simplify content for universal understanding and communication.05:58 Easy entry, tax advantages, but unlimited liability.07:05 Start with unlimited liability; consider partnership later.12:10 Start honest talks early to avoid conflicts.13:34 Friends in business risk ruined friendships.18:20 Understand taxing implications of company withdrawals.20:14 Transitioning to new ABN requires extensive administrative work.25:42 Loss treatment differs for business structures.28:39 Trust benefits adult beneficiaries with low taxes.31:41 Confusing tax savings with cash savings explained.33:53 Consider restructuring after 130,000 profit threshold.37:07 Separate entities protect assets through strategic division.39:22 Understand write-offs to avoid being scammed.Resources:Visit Retinue's website at www.retinue.com.com.auGet in touch with David at david.rosenthal@retinue.com.au Welcome back to The Site Shed Podcast! If you're in the trades and wondering how to integrate AI into your business, Tradie Hub has you covered. Discover innovative ways to reduce labour costs, increase efficiency, and leverage AI for growth. Check out Tradie Hub at tradiehub.net and see how they're transforming the trade industry with cutting-edge AI solutions! Don't let your business fall behind—explore the power of AI with Tradie Hub. Visit tradiehub.net to see the innovative AI tools crafted just for tradies. Discover how you can stay ahead and transform your business with cutting-edge technology! Enjoyed the podcast? Take your trade business to the next level by incorporating AI! Don't get left behind—explore Tradie Hub at tradiehub.net. Discover game-changing AI solutions designed to boost efficiency and growth for trade businesses worldwide. Check it out today! Check this out: Guarantee 30 Qualified Project Quotes Over The Next 90 Days! Learn more here: https://tradie.wiki/pod Learn more about the CRM that DOES IT ALL for your trade business! Just click on this link: https://tradiehub.net Join a global community of 6000+ trade professionals https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheSiteShed Connect with me on LinkedIn. For more podcast episodes, you can also visit our website. Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this podcast and this series, please take 5 to leave us a review: Google Facebook Podcast

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it's also a company that few people feel they actually understand. Their products are used by more humans than any other's in history — almost half of the entire world's population daily. But… what is Meta? Why do they do what they do? How do they do what they do? Ask ten people and you'll likely get ten very different sets of answers.Today, we dive deeper than we've ever gone trying to find Acquired's answers to those questions. And after months of research and 6+ hours of incredible stories about how they (and really “they” being Mark himself) bet it all and win time and time again in the face of overwhelming odds, we arrive at our answers. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, AI, Oculus, Orion, it's all here. Tune in for one of the greatest corporate stories of all time: Meta, a Mark Zuckerberg Production.Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Fall ‘24 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigCrusoeHuntressLinks:Please take our 2024 Acquired Survey if you have a minute. It'd mean the world to us!Our past episodes on Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Snapchat, the Snap IPO, TikTok, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Mark Zuckerberg InterviewWorldly Partners: Meta multi-decade studyCarve Outs:Ben Cohen's piece on NotebookLMMr. McMahonThe Dwarkesh PodcastMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

El analista internacional David Rosenthal indicó que Hamás quedó debilitado tras la muerte de su líder Yahya Sinwar.

Estos fueron los temas tratados en Mañanas Blu de este miércoles, 2 de octubre de 2024: El analista politólogo David Rosenthal habló en Mañanas Blu sobre los ataques terroristas que sufrió Israel por parte de Irán. Indicó que todo inició con un ataque a una estación de tren donde murieron 6 personas y acto seguido, inició la escalada de bombardeos contra el país. El embajador de Colombia en el Líbano, Edwin Ostos, dio detalles sobre el vuelo humanitario que despegó desde Beirut con la repatriación de 116 colombianos, este vuelo fue organizado por la cancillería, UNGDR, la Fuerza Aérea, y otras entidades gubernamentales. La representante a la Cámara Katherine Miranda explicó en Mañana Blu sobre las aprobaciones que se están ejecutando de la reforma laboral y aseguró que la reforma laboral terminará de enterrar la economía colombiana. El alcalde de Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, habló en Mañanas Blu sobre diferentes temas de interés para la ciudad de Medellín; entre los que destacas: el atentado en su contra, la liberación de las 6 mujeres en México y las sanciones que recibirá Atlético Nacional por los hechos de violencia en el estadio Atanasio Girardot. La presidenta de Asocajas, Adriana Guillén, dio detalles sobre el Congreso Nacional de Cajas de Compensaciones Familiares que se lleva a cabo en Medellín y el papel que tendrían dentro del sistema de salud que plantea el Gobierno El cónsul de Colombia en México, Andrés Hernández, informó sobre la situación que viven muchas mujeres en Colombia por el tráfico de personas, ya que, bajo promesas de trabajos dudosos y engañosos, las reclutan para estos delitos en México. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired's nine-year life… our sold out live show at the Chase Center in San Francisco. We joked during the months (months!) of preparation leading up to this event that it was like planning a wedding for 6,000 Acquired fans, and the guest list included Jamie Dimon, Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg… no pressure! But thanks to our amazing partnership with J.P. Morgan Payments, together we were able to make something incredible. Tune in and enjoy the celebration!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Fall ‘24 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigCrusoeLinks:Mike Taylor, the truly incomparable performer of Who Got the Truth?Mike Amiri (who designed Mark's shirt)More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Photo Credit: Mark Zuckerberg by Jeff Sainlar / Meta‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Olá, eu sou Leo Lopes e está no ar o POD NOTÍCIAS, o podcast semanal que traz até você um resumo de tudo que acontece de mais importante no mercado de podcasts no Brasil e no mundo! Hoje é segunda-feira, dia 23 de setembro de 2024 e esta é a nossa trigésima segunda edição! Este episódio conta com o apoio da CONTENT ACADEMY, uma plataforma de cursos online voltada para quem quer trabalhar com criação de conteúdo que já tem na plataforma cursos como True Crime com o Ivan Mizanzuk, Webjornalismo independente com Alvaro e Ana do Meteoro Brasil, Storytelling com o Kenji do Normose, Edição de vídeo para Youtube com o Will do Jogatina Maneira, o meu curso Podcast para todos (que tá com uma mega promoção por tempo limitado) e mais um monte de cursos incríveis! Então entra lá no site pra dar uma conferida em contentacademy.com.br! O Pod Notícias também conta com o apoio da HostGator, um dos melhores serviços de hospedagem do mundo, onde nós hospedamos o nosso site e que dá para o nosso ouvinte até 70% de desconto em hospedagem compartilhada e 60% em servidores dedicados. Os servidores da HostGator entregam 99,9% de uptime e a hospedagem de sites deles conta gratuitamente com a rede global da CDN Cloudflare, garantindo um ótimo desempenho, entrega de conteúdo de forma rápida e eficiente e uma proteção avançada contra ameaças. Os benefícios da CDN são insuperáveis e podem ser ativados em um clique nos planos de hospedagem da HostGator. Pra garantir esse desconto acesse podnoticias.com.br e clique no banner que fica no rodapé da página ou em qualquer postagem individual. 1 - A gente abre a edição de hoje com notícias que mostram a importância do podcast no processo das eleições. Neste momento estamos no meio do processo tanto da eleição presidencial dos Estados Unidos como das eleições municipais aqui no Brasil, então o tema é atual e extremamente relevante. Primeiro nós temos que falar sobre o crescimento dos podcasts políticos, que são aqueles focados em discutir temas relacionados à política, eventos atuais e oferecer análises detalhadas sobre políticas públicas e governança, que se destacam pela acessibilidade e pela diversidade de vozes. Seja para quem busca um ponto de vista equilibrado ou preferências mais partidárias, há um podcast político ideal para cada ouvinte. Diferentemente da mídia tradicional, muitas vezes acusada de sensacionalismo, os podcasts oferecem uma análise mais profunda e ponderada dos acontecimentos. Outro fator importante é a confiança. Muitos ouvintes recorrem aos podcasts políticos por sentirem que os apresentadores e convidados oferecem opiniões mais genuínas em comparação com os grandes veículos de mídia. O formato cria uma atmosfera mais próxima, como se o ouvinte estivesse participando de uma conversa entre amigos de confiança, ao mesmo tempo que aprende com especialistas. Os podcasts têm um grande potencial para influenciar a opinião pública, funcionando como uma espécie de talk show moderno, mas com alcance global. Além de apresentarem pontos de vista alternativos, eles conseguem explicar de maneira detalhada e acessível temas complexos que muitas vezes são ignorados ou superficialmente tratados na mídia tradicional. Link 2. Falando especificamente das eleições americanas, uma nova pesquisa mostra que eleitores registrados nos EUA preferem podcasts como fonte de notícias e informações e são altamente propensos a agir com base no conteúdo dos podcasts. De acordo com a nova pesquisa da Voxtopica, A Influência dos Podcasts: Os Hábitos de Escuta dos Eleitores Registrados, 85% dos eleitores registrados pesquisados confiam mais em podcasts do que em qualquer outra fonte de notícias e informações, incluindo jornais (impressos ou digitais), TV (transmissão ou cabo), rádio AM/FM e mídias sociais. Isso é significativo, com 78% dos entrevistados concordando que os podcasts os influenciam a aprender mais sobre questões ou tópicos nas notícias, e 63% concordando que os podcasts mudam suas opiniões sobre questões ou tópicos nas notícias. E quantos eleitores registrados estão ouvindo podcasts? Quase metade (49%) dos entrevistados da pesquisa disse que ouve pelo menos um podcast por semana e um terço disse que ouve 5 ou mais episódios por semana. Mais de 50% dos eleitores registrados pesquisados disseram que ouvem podcasts para aumentar seu conhecimento sobre um assunto, e 60% responderam que preferem fortemente conteúdo de podcast bipartidário ou não partidário. De fato, 20% dos entrevistados afirmaram que não gostam ou odeiam conteúdo altamente político da esquerda ou da direita. A íntegra das matérias com muito mais informações você confere no nosso site em podnoticias.com.br! Link 3 - Ainda sobre a manchete da semana, o Flow, que começou como podcast e hoje é um ecossistema de mídia digital, vai realizar em parceria com o Grupo Nexo, da Faculdade de Direito da USP, um debate eleitoral com os candidatos à prefeitura de São Paulo. Mediado pelo jornalista Carlos Tramontina, a transmissão será realizada ao vivo na segunda-feira (23), às 19h, nos canais do Flow e Flow News, e contará com as participações de Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), José Luiz Datena (PSDB), Marina Helena (Novo), Pablo Marçal (PRTB), Ricardo Nunes (MDB) e Tabata Amaral (PSB), que responderão perguntas com foco nas áreas de saúde, educação, segurança pública, acessibilidade, transporte e população em situação de rua. Desde a eleição presidencial de 2022, quando o Flow Podcast recebeu Lula e Bolsonaro para entrevistas individuais, alcançando 9,7 e 16 milhões de visualizações, respectivamente, o podcast entrou no radar dos candidatos como um meio importante para alcançar um outro perfil de público, com faixa etária mais jovem e mais conectado. Vários outros podcasts como Podpah e Inteligência Ltda., por exemplo, já entrevistaram candidatos e seus episódios tiveram milhões de visualizações, mas é a primeira vez que um ecossistema de mídia digital que teve início com um podcast realiza um debate entre candidatos mediado por um jornalista de reputação ilibada como Carlos Tramontina, o que reforça o poder do podcast e pode se tornar uma nova tendência muito em breve. Link 4 - O podcast Acquired realizou um evento especial ao vivo, o "Acquired Live", que reuniu entusiastas de tecnologia e negócios em uma experiência única. O evento foi realizado dia 10 de setembro de 2024 na cidade de San Francisco e trouxe uma série de discussões instigantes e insights sobre o mundo dos negócios e startups. Os anfitriões do podcast, Ben Gilbert e David Rosenthal, conduziram a sessão com a mesma profundidade e entusiasmo que os tornaram populares entre os ouvintes. Durante o evento, os participantes tiveram a oportunidade de ouvir diretamente de fundadores e líderes de empresas como Mark Zuckerberg, fundador do Facebook, Daniel Ek, fundador do Spotify, e a jornalista Emily Chang, da Bloomberg, que compartilharam suas experiências e desafios enfrentados ao longo de suas jornadas. Os anfitriões também abriram espaço para perguntas da audiência, promovendo um ambiente interativo e dinâmico. O podcast Acquired é conhecido por sua abordagem detalhada e analítica, explorando desde as origens até o sucesso de empresas como Apple, Amazon e muitas outras, e o evento "Acquired Live" não apenas reforçou a popularidade do podcast, mas também destacou a importância de eventos presenciais para a troca de ideias e networking. Com o sucesso do evento, os anfitriões consideram expandir a experiência ao vivo para outras cidades, levando suas análises e histórias inspiradoras a um público ainda maior. Link AINDA EM NOTÍCIAS DA SEMANA: 5 - O Spotify projeta uma receita publicitária global de US$ 2,1 bilhões em 2024, impulsionada por um crescimento anual de 13%. A plataforma aposta fortemente no crescimento dos anúncios em vídeo, acompanhando a popularização dos podcasts em formato de vídeo. Além disso, a empresa está expandindo sua presença em regiões estratégicas como Oriente Médio, África e Ásia, onde o consumo de mídia digital está em alta. Outro ponto chave é o uso crescente de ferramentas de inteligência artificial para personalizar e otimizar anúncios, aumentando a eficácia das campanhas publicitárias. O Spotify tem investido em tecnologias que aprimoram a segmentação e a entrega de conteúdo publicitário, aproveitando sua base de usuários global, que conta com 626 milhões de pessoas. A combinação de formatos de mídia, como áudio e vídeo, tem mostrado resultados promissores. De acordo com a plataforma, esse tipo de anúncio híbrido gera um aumento de 66% nas vendas e de 27% na intenção de compra. Isso demonstra a força das campanhas publicitárias integradas para gerar maior engajamento e conversão. Link 6 - Ainda falando de Spotify, a Sahar Elhabashi, que é vice-presidente e chefe do setor de podcasts no Spotify, anunciou sua saída da empresa no final de 2024, após seis anos de atuação. A notícia foi divulgada em comunicados internos, tanto por Elhabashi quanto por Alex Norström, co-presidente e diretor de negócios do Spotify. No momento, Elhabashi não tem planos de se juntar a outra companhia, e o Spotify já iniciou a busca por um sucessor, tanto interna quanto externamente. Enquanto o novo líder não é escolhido, Roman Wasenmüller, que atualmente lidera as operações internacionais de podcasts, assumirá o comando interino do setor. Wasenmüller tem sido uma peça-chave na expansão dos podcasts em vídeo, que têm crescido de maneira acelerada nos últimos anos, como dissemos na notícia anterior. Durante o período em que Elhabashi esteve à frente da divisão, o Spotify viu um crescimento exponencial no consumo de podcasts, passando de uma base de menos de 10 milhões de ouvintes para mais de 150 milhões. No entanto, foi também ela a responsável por liderar cortes nas equipes de podcasts e por recalibrar a estratégia da empresa. Essa mudança envolveu a redução de acordos exclusivos com grandes nomes do setor, como Joe Rogan e Alex Cooper, com o objetivo de distribuir os programas em múltiplas plataformas e alcançar um público maior. E nesse morde e assopra, o Spotify segue na sua busca de ultrapassar o YouTube e voltar a ser a plataforma líder mundial em audiência de podcasts. Link 7 - E o Pocket Casts segue anunciando novidades! A funcionalidade da vez promete revolucionar a forma como os ouvintes compartilham seus momentos favoritos. Com a atualização para as versões 7.72 no iOS e Android, e 4.5.0 na web, os usuários agora podem criar e compartilhar clipes de podcasts, facilitando a disseminação de momentos marcantes, piadas hilárias ou insights valiosos através das redes sociais e mensagens. A nova função de compartilhamento de clipes permite que os usuários selecionem e compartilhem trechos específicos de episódios, tornando-se uma ferramenta poderosa para podcasters que desejam atrair novos ouvintes e engajar suas comunidades. Além disso, a atualização trouxe melhorias significativas na forma de compartilhar podcasts e episódios inteiros. Agora, os usuários podem facilmente compartilhar conteúdos através de plataformas como Tumblr, X, Instagram, WhatsApp e Telegram, com um visual mais atraente e intuitivo. Olha aí que legal, mais uma inovação do Pocket Casts - que eu defendo como o melhor app de podcasts - pra enriquecer a experiência dos usuários e abrir novas possibilidades para o crescimento e a promoção de podcasts. E anota aí o que eu tô falando: essa função de clipes vai se tornar um diferencial competitivo no mercado de aplicativos de podcasts e vai incentivar outros players a seguirem a mesma tendência. Pode esperar! Link E MAIS: 8 - E se o Pocket Casts anunciou uma baita novidade esta semana, a Headliner chegou de voadora e anunciou não uma, mas duas atualizações significativas que prometem facilitar a vida dos podcasters. A primeira delas é a postagem automática de vídeos de podcast nas plataformas X (antigo Twitter) e Threads, além das já compatíveis Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok e YouTube. Essa atualização visa ampliar o alcance dos podcasts, simplificando o processo de promoção para os criadores de conteúdo. Com a nova funcionalidade, os podcasters podem garantir que seus episódios sejam divulgados de forma consistente em múltiplas plataformas, economizando tempo e esforço. Segundo Oliver Wellington, co-fundador e COO da Headliner, "o objetivo é ajudar os podcasters a simplificarem o processo de promoção, permitindo que se concentrem na criação de ótimos programas". A adição de X e Threads complementa o assistente de audiograma automático da empresa, lançado recentemente. A atualização não apenas economiza tempo, mas também potencializa o crescimento de audiência dos podcasts. A integração com as principais redes sociais permite que os criadores atinjam tanto públicos novos quanto existentes, aumentando a visibilidade de seus programas. Link 9 - E a segunda novidade da Headliner é que a ferramenta gratuita Eddy by Headliner passou a oferecer suporte a mais de 100 idiomas! Esse avanço tem como objetivo ampliar a visibilidade de podcasts de diferentes línguas, facilitando o acesso a transcrições e recursos de criação de conteúdo. Agora, podcasters de diversas partes do mundo podem transcrever seus episódios de maneira rápida e precisa, impulsionando o crescimento de seus programas. A nova atualização do Eddy permite que podcasts em outros idiomas utilizem ferramentas para transcrição, legendagem e criação de conteúdo, de forma gratuita. Olha só que novidade sensacional! A Headliner já ajudou mais de 1,5 milhão de podcasters a expandirem suas audiências, inclusive nós, que usamos as automações do Headliner pra publicar nosso episódios no YouTube, e já vamos começar a explorar também as novidades! Link HOJE NO GIRO SOBRE PESSOAS QUE FAZEM A MÍDIA: 10 - Uma reportagem foi a vencedora na categoria Podcast do Prêmio da Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP): é “O pesadelo do sono para crianças autistas”, da jornalista Nubya Oliveira. A premiação, que contempla seis categorias, divulgou os ganhadores na última segunda-feira (16). O podcast aborda como os distúrbios do sono afetam crianças com Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) e suas famílias, trazendo à tona o impacto emocional e econômico dessa condição. A reportagem foi sonorizada por Rodrigo “Beleza” Faria. Além de ser colunista da “Viva com Saúde”, veiculada na FM O TEMPO e no portal de O TEMPO, Nubya também é finalista do Prêmio da Fundação José Egydio Setúbal com a mesma reportagem. O link para ouvir a reportagem você encontra no nosso site em podnoticias.com.br! Link 11 - E o Nerdcast publicou sexta-feira passada seu episódio número 950, uma nova marca em sua trajetória de 18 anos de existência! Claro que o Nerdcast dispensa apresentações para qualquer ouvinte brasileiro de podcasts, mas se por acaso você começou a ouvir podcasts ontem, vale registrar aqui que o Nerdcast, criado pelos amigos Alexandre Ottoni - o Jovem Nerd - e Deive Pazos - o Azaghâl - é um dos podcasts mais antigos do Brasil ainda em atividade. O programa foi criado em 2006, tem hoje um dos maiores FEEDS do país, com 1725 episódios de diferentes produções originais, tem em média 1 milhão de downloads por episódio e foi o primeiro podcast do Brasil (e o terceiro do planeta) a atingir a marca de 1 BILHÃO de downloads, ainda em 2019. Eu escrevi um artigo mais detalhado celebrando esse momento no site do Pod Notícias, que está linkado aqui na descrição do episódio, mas quero deixar registrado aqui, além dos parabéns, meu agradecimento ao Alexandre e ao Deive, porque somos nós aqui na Rádiofobia Podcast e Multimídia que editamos o Nerdcast desde 2012, e coincidentemente sábado passado, dia 21 de setembro, celebramos 12 anos dessa parceria. Então, Ale e Deive, muito obrigado, e vamo que vamo porque em pouco menos de 1 ano estaremos editando o Nerdcast 1000! Link SOBRE LANÇAMENTOS: 12 - A Globo lançou semana passada o podcast investigativo 'Portas Fechadas', que explora os bastidores da falência da companhia aérea Varig. Produzido pela Ampère, o podcast reúne entrevistas com ex-funcionários, especialistas do mercado de aviação e familiares dos fundadores da empresa. Com quase cem anos de história, a Varig teve sua falência decretada em 2010, e a série busca responder questões sobre o declínio da companhia. O podcast é apresentado por Letícia Toledo e dirigido por Cris Dias, com roteiro e pesquisa de Alexandre Marom. A produção começou em março de 2024, mas a pesquisa teve início em novembro de 2023. Foram realizadas 50 entrevistas, totalizando mais de 85 horas de gravação, com figuras como Gianfranco Beting e Lito Sousa, que trabalhou como mecânico na Varig nos anos 90. David Zylbersztajn, ex-diretor da Agência Nacional de Petróleo, também fornece insights valiosos sobre o processo de recuperação judicial da Varig. O 'Portas Fechadas' promete não apenas narrar a história da Varig, mas também explorar as complexas conexões políticas que influenciaram seu crescimento e eventual queda. O primeiro episódio foca em Otto Meyer, fundador da Varig, e Rubem Berta, seu sucessor mais conhecido. Prometendo aprofundar a discussão sobre o legado da Varig e as dívidas trabalhistas ainda pendentes, a série é composta por seis episódios, lançados às segundas e quartas, e está disponível gratuitamente nas principais plataformas de áudio. Link 13 - E está de volta o podcast "Meu Inconsciente Coletivo", comandado por Tati Bernardi, para uma nova temporada que promete abordar temas complexos e instigantes como sexo, psicanálise e feminismo, discutindo questões como tesão, pornografia, fetiches e jogos de poder, trazendo uma visão psicanalítica para o comportamento sexual. A temporada contará com a participação de diversos especialistas, incluindo Caio Pandini, Clarice Pimentel Paulon, e outros, que trarão suas perspectivas sobre como o desejo e as neuroses modernas se manifestam na vida cotidiana. Tati Bernardi, conhecida por sua abordagem franca e humorística, afirma que a temporada focará na “vida sexual do neurótico”, explorando como o desejo pode ser limitado por normas sociais. O podcast, que começou em fevereiro de 2021, continua a oferecer uma plataforma para discutir temas relevantes e muitas vezes tabu. Com novos episódios lançados semanalmente, a oitava temporada do "Meu Inconsciente Coletivo" estreou dia 19 de setembro e será composta por dez episódios, disponíveis nas principais plataformas de podcast. Link RECOMENDAÇÃO NACIONAL: 14 - E a nossa recomendação nacional da semana vai para o podcast Texto Casual, o novo projeto da Texto & Cia Comunicação, de Ribeirão Preto (SP), produzido e apresentado pelas  jornalistas Blanche Amancio e Daniela Antunes pra narrar histórias “ainda” não contadas pela empresa da qual são sócias. Há mais de três décadas, a Texto & Cia atua no setor de assessoria de imprensa, produção de periódicos, conteúdos e comunicação estratégica para empresas. O primeiro episódio, sob o título Uma Breve História, narra o surgimento da imprensa em Ribeirão Preto. A cidade teve a segunda emissora de rádio em atividade no país, a PRA-7, e uma retransmissora da TV Tupi – que saiu do ar depois de a antena ser derrubada por uma forte tempestade. O segundo episódio entra no ar hoje, dia 23 de setembro, contando como embalagens vazias de medicamentos se transformam em insumos para a construção civil e como isso contribui com entidades assistenciais de todo o país. O Texto Casual está disponível no Spotify. Link E se você, assim como a HostGator e a Content Academy, quiser anunciar a sua marca, produto ou serviço com a gente aqui no Pod Notícias – tanto no podcast como no nosso site – e atingir um público qualificado que se interessa pelo podcast aqui no Brasil, manda um e-mail pro contato@podnoticias.com.br, que nós vamos ter o maior prazer em conversar com você sobre as nossas opções de publicidade. E caso você queira colaborar com o Pod Notícias com texto, sugestão de pauta ou envio de notícias, também vai ser muito bem-vindo e pode fazer isso através do mesmo e-mail. E assim a gente fecha esta trigésima segunda edição do Pod Notícias. Acesse podnoticias.com.br para ter acesso à íntegra das notícias com todas as fontes e a transcrição completa do episódio, além dos artigos dos nossos colunistas e todos os links relacionados. Acompanhe o Pod Notícias diariamente:- Canal público do Telegram- Instagram- Page do Linkedin Ouça o Pod Notícias nos principais agregadores:- Spotify- Apple Podcasts- Deezer- Amazon Music- PocketCasts O Pod Notícias é uma produção original da Rádiofobia Podcast e Multimídia e publicado pela Rádiofobia Podcast Network, e conta com as colaborações de:- Camila Nogueira - arte- Eduardo Sierra - edição- Leo Lopes - pesquisa, pauta, redação final, direção geral e apresentação- Thiago Miro - pesquisa e redação Publicidade:Entre em contato e saiba como anunciar sua marca, produto ou serviço no Pod Notícias.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented thing: a live conversation in front of 6,000 people on Meta's company strategy, sharing stories from early Facebook history, and his thoughts on the future of AI, VR, and AR. Mark was remarkably candid in our discussion, and gave us a window into his real and intense daily demeanor leading Meta. (And his other life endeavors!)We can't wait to release the complete video of the whole night, including our surprise conversations with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, and cameo appearances from Jensen Huang and Mike Taylor (the incredible singer of “Who Got the Truth?”). That's coming in a couple weeks, but for now: enjoy this conversation with Mark Zuckerberg.Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Fall ‘24 Season partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsStatsigCrusoeLinks:Mike Amiri (who designed Mark's shirt!)More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Photo Credit: Mark Zuckerberg by Jeff Sainlar / Meta‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in San Francisco, with special guests including Mark Zuckerberg (!). The show is Tuesday, September 10th, with doors opening at 5 PM for an hour of mingling with other listeners before the show starts at 6 PM. Huge thank you to the J.P. Morgan Payments team for being our incredible partner in making this happen. Tickets are almost gone so make sure you grab one ASAP — you don't want to miss this night! https://acquired.fm/sfWe also figured this is a good excuse to update you all on the state of Acquired — after an incredible first half of the year (including WSJ's profile of the show) we are taking the rest of the summer off to recharge, parent our young children, and prepare for the big night in September. We hope you're having a great summer, and we'll see you live in the fall!Carve Outs:Thule Urban Glide 3Disney's Aulani ResortMeller sunglassesQuarterback and Receiver on NetflixMore Acquired:Subscribe to ACQ2Join the Slack: https://acquired.fm/slack‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

In this engaging episode, Linda Bruno shifts the spotlight to three talented women in voiceover. Our discussion features three remarkable voiceover artists: Carrie Farris from Austin, Texas, Barb Lyon from Batavia, Illinois, and Gwen Poynor from Salt Lake City. Each shares their unique journey, from early beginnings to current successes, highlighting the ups and downs of the industry. Gwen delves into her extensive background, starting as a child, the challenges of re-entering the industry, and the evolution of technology. Barb reflects on her career transition from broadcasting to full-time voiceover, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and consistency. Carrie discusses her path from radio to voiceover, focusing on the significance of finding one's niche and the joy of acting through dubbing and other genres. Our conversation also touches on the common misconceptions about entering the voiceover field, the importance of quality equipment, and the need for continuous self-improvement. We wrap up with personal anecdotes, advice for newcomers, and a mutual appreciation for the supportive community within the voiceover industry. Don't miss this episode that celebrates the resilience and creativity of women in voiceover! About Carrie Farris: Carrie is your go-to voice from commercials to video games. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business and Spanish, infusing her work with a global perspective and linguistic finesse. Operating as a non-union freelance professional, Carrie has voiced commercials, promos, audiobooks, movie trailers, video dub for tv/ film, Kid YouTube Channels and so much more. Top clients: Target, Spotify, Frozen Way Video Games, Moody Publishing, Elf Cosmetics, H&M Spring Collection and the list goes on. Visit www.carriefarris.com About Barb Lyon: Barb caught the voice over bug in High School when she narrated a video for the school board. So she attended North Central College and filled many roles at 89.1 WONC. She then went to work at a small production company where she eventually joined the talent roster, and began voicing spots for her husband's radio station on the side. In 2012 Barb joined the casting sites and started pursuing voice over in earnest. In 2016 Barb left that full time job and began working in voice over 100%. Now she finds a somewhat surprising home in eLearning and corporate narration voice over. Barb has coached with everyone from our very own Linda Bruno & Alyssa Jayson, to David Rosenthal and Mary Lynn Wissner. In 2023 she was honored to be a SOVAS nominee in the category of eLearning. Visit: BarbLyon.com   About Gwen Poynor: Gwen's voice is approachable, elegant, rich, and inviting. Having been cast in TV, radio, and print ads at a young age, she loved being behind the mic and in front of a camera and teleprompter.  After a decade in marketing at a Hospital and as a Recruiter, she raised her family and then decided to get back into VO and on-camera work in 2021. She's voiced medical, corporate and industrial videos; announced Award Winners (and more!) at Events, Fundraisers and Conferences and voiced local and regional ads on TV, Radio and TikTok.    Visit GwenVoiceover.com   FOR MORE INFO ON THE SHOW AND THE GURUS, PLEASE VISIT: Coaching Website: https://voiceover.guru/  and https://learnwiththegurus.com/ Join our Circle Community: https://the-voiceover-gurus.circle.so/home Linda Bruno Voice Actress  https://www.lindabruno.com Alyssa Jayson Actress and Musician http://www.alyssajayson.com Kevin Kilpatrick Voice Actor   https://kevinkilpatrick.com/

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is entrepreneur and investor Ben Gilbert,  co-founder and co-host of the hit podcast Acquired. Ben and his colleague David Rosenthal have developed a huge following for their deep-dive, long-form podcasts telling the stories behind some of the most successful companies in the world, and they recently released Microsoft Volume II, the second installment in their epic exploration of the Redmond-based technology giant.  We talk about Microsoft's misunderstood era, with help from some archival highlights from GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop's interviews with Bill Gates over the years. It's a timely topic given Microsoft's 50th anniversary in 2025 and the company's resurgence as one of the most valuable and relevant companies in the tech industry with the rise of AI.  Before we jump in, we ask Ben to catch us up on all things Acquired. The podcast is the talk of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, as documented in a Wall Street Journal profile. Acquired just announced a live arena show coming up on Sept. 10 featuring Mark Zuckerberg at Chase Center in San Francisco, the home of the Golden State Warriors.  Edited and produced by Curt Milton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discovered in our research, is probably not what you think.In this episode we explore and analyze the browser wars and the DOJ case, Windows XP through 8, Surface, Xbox, search, Yahoo!, Bing, the iPhone, Nokia, mobile, social, Facebook… and oh yeah, a little thing called Azure and the enterprise — which ended up becoming so big that no failures mattered. Tune in for Microsoft, Volume II.Chase Center Live Show in SF:Sign up here to for the pre-sale list before tickets are available to the public. See you there!!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowPilotLinks:Bill Gurley on Android's “Less Than Free” business modelAll episode sourcesCarve Outs:Meta Ray-BansOzlo SleepbudsM3 Macbook AirModel YMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Note: references to Fortune in ServiceNow sponsor sections are from Fortune ©2023. Used under license.‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Today we are replaying our classroom session with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, founders of Acquired, the podcasting sensation telling the stories and strategies of the world's great companies. In this episode, we turn the tables on Ben and David in order to discover their own stories and the fairy dust behind acquired success. We'll cover the history of the formation of one of the most successful podcasts in the world, why having a co-founder & friend is vital to building an enduring company throughout the highs and lows, and their most valuable lessons learned from dissecting the greatest stories in business, investing, and entrepreneurship. Please enjoy our class with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. ----- Art of Investing is a property of Pine Grove Studios in collaboration with Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Art of Investing, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.  Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @ArtofInvest | @Buhrman_Rick | @PaulBuser | @JoinColossus Show Notes (00:05:36) First question - Acquired podcast's journey, founders' insights, and entrepreneurial lessons (00:11:00) David Rosenthal's journey from 80s Pennsylvania to entrepreneurship (00:23:12) How David's exposure to entrepreneurship shaped his beliefs and co-founder dynamics (00:14:12) How Ben and David forged a unique friendship through their shared passions (00:30:54) Exploring side hustles & transforming hobbies into career opportunities (00:42:07) Why building success requires nurturing intrinsic compounding factors (00:52:15) The roles of luck and persistence in achieving success (00:56:35) Prioritizing product over monetization for long-term success (00:60:57) The importance of staying authentic amidst success (01:08:15) Balancing success and well-being with Acquired's freedom-driven approach (01:10:37) Recognizing the value of ownership in the journey to success (01:15:32) The power of optimism in overcoming challenges and achieving success (01:19:27) The significance of authenticity in long-term success (01:25:07) Upholding integrity in interactions as an essential component of success (01:35:04) Why successful companies often mirror the founder's personality (01:43:17) Acquired's biggest strength and the potential risk on the horizon

For a moment last week, semiconductor chip designer NVIDIA eclipsed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company. How did it get there? Today on the show, David Rosenthal, one half of the tech podcast Acquired, explains how NVIDIA's founder Jensen Huang laid the groundwork for the company's meteoric rise, and why there may be obstacles ahead. Related episodes:The life and death spirals of social media networks (Apple / Spotify) The semiconductor founding father For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Starbucks. You'd be hard pressed to name any brand that's more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a billion global customer purchases per week across its stores and 3rd party retail channels, a significant portion of the human population gets their daily fix in the green and white paper cup. (Including our own Ben Gilbert who famously enjoys his daily spinach feta wrap. :)But it wasn't always this way. Long before the frappuccinos and the PSLs and the cake pops, Starbucks was just a small-time Seattle roaster that only sold beans — and was started not by Howard Schultz but rather the guys who later ran Peet's (!). Starting from six tiny stores when Howard took over in 1987, this quirky coffee company named after a character from Moby Dick has scaled to nearly 40,000 locations worldwide.Today, in a first for Acquired, the protagonist himself joins us as a third cohost to tell the whole story of Starbucks. And Howard is in the perfect moment to do this — after three separate stints as CEO he's now retired, off the board of directors, and in his own words “not coming back.” So place a mobile order (or not! as you'll hear Howard speak about), sit back with your own favorite Starbucks items, and enjoy.Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan Payments *ServiceNowPilotThe Biggest Thing We've Ever Done:San Francisco. September 10, 2024. Mark your calendars.Links:Howard's letter “The Soul of a Brand”Worldly Partners' multi-decade Starbucks analysisStarbucks S-1More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!** Future capabilities of biometric payments are under development; features and timelines are subject to change at the bank's sole discretion.*Note: references to Fortune in ServiceNow sponsor sections are from Fortune ©2023. Used under license.‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

David Rosenthal, president of Zion's Hope, discusses who or what is influencing America's most prestigious universities and why they are turning a blind eye to hate-filled, anti-Semitic “protests”. For decades, these institutions have been receiving vast sums of money from political activists and billionaire-funded global foundations. What has largely been ignored, until now however, has been the enormous flow of Arab-Muslim money into their coffers from authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. The largest of these “contributors," the nation of Qatar, has donated more than $3 billion to Hamas and has deep connections with the Muslim Brotherhood – a radical organization with its sites set on the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. Listen to this timely update, originally presented on the 2024 National Day of Prayer, how the current events of our world relate to Israel and end-times prophecy.  

Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The company that so thoroughly and completely dominated every conceivable competitor that the United States government intervened and kneecapped it… yet it's STILL the most valuable company in the world today.This episode tells the story of Microsoft in its heyday, the PC Era. We cover its rise from a teenage dream to the most powerful business and technology force in history — the 20-year period from 1975 to 1995 that took Bill and Paul from the Lakeside high school computer room to launching Windows 95 alongside Jay Leno and the Rolling Stones. From BASIC to DOS, Windows, Office, Intel, IBM, Xerox PARC, Apple, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer… it's all here, and it's all amazing. Tune in and enjoy… Microsoft.Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowPilotLinks:Congress changing copyright law in 1980 to include “computer programs”Acquired “classic” on Microsoft's 1987 acquisition of Forethought / PowerPointAll episode sourcesCarve Outs:LGRAndré 3000's new album + GQ InterviewMeta Ray-BansVisual Designer Julia RundbergSummer HealthMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Note: references to Fortune in ServiceNow sponsor sections are from Fortune ©2023. Used under license.‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

David Rosenthal, president of Zion's Hope, joins us today to talk about some geopolitical things taking place in the Middle East, and the implications in Bible prophecy. God's people should have a good sense of what is happening relative to: The deadly attack upon Israel by Hamas The Red Heifer The Temple Mount The president of Turkey 's aspirations to rule the Middle East Re-establishing the Islamic caliphate Natural gas discovered in Israel and Egypt Saudi Arabia fearful of Iran's potential of developing nuclear weapons. These are not isolated events. Join David in his brief audio message, “Red Heifers and the Fight for Al-Aqsa”, as he explains how each of these events is intertwined, holding serious ramifications for the Last Days.  

Voice actor and entrepreneurial spirit Cristina Milizia joins THE VO BOSS podcast to share her VO and GVAA journey. From her iconic performances in "League of Legends" to her shows on Nickelodeon, Cristina's career has spanned, toys, games, animation, and more! Cristina talks about her artistic influences and passion for performance, how being bilingual influences her career, and unexpected stardom in the face of adversity. Beyond the microphone, Cristina's legacy is amplified by her profound impact on the voice acting community through the Global Voice Acting Academy (GVAA) and its pivotal rate guide. We discuss the ethos of leadership, the cultivation of a nurturing community, and the unyielding push for fair compensation in the industry.  00:01 - Intro (Announcement) It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss, a V-O boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  00:20 - Anne  (Host) Hey everyone, welcome to the V-O Boss podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzzaa, and I am so excited to be here with a very special guest who is not only super Uber talented but one of my closest friends. Cristina Milizia is an award-winning bilingual voice actor and coach specializing in animation. She is a 2022 Voice Arts Award winner for outstanding animation character, film or TV best voiceover and is best known for voicing Annie and a Moo Moo on League of Legends, poison Ivy on Cartoon Network's DC superhero girls, Jessica Cruz for Lego DC Carlitos on the Casa Grande's, teresa for Barbie, mattel and Baby Bottle on the Cuphead Show. And while most of you know her for her acting roles, guess what? She is also a badass entrepreneur and a boss like no other, and she's the founder of the GVAA and the creator of the GVAA Rate Guide. Ah, Cristina, I am so excited to finally have you on the show.  01:19 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Thank you so much for having me. Also, any excuse to get to be with Ann is, like you know, awesome. I feel so fancy with your introduction, so thank you.  01:30 - Anne  (Host) That long list of credits is amazing and I just want to reiterate, bosses out there, while most of you probably know her for her amazing acting abilities and her characters, I wanted to bring Cristina on because she's a pioneer woman. She is an entrepreneur from gosh knows. We've known each other for how long, Cristina now 10 years, 10 years about yeah, I think, at least 10 years.  01:52 Cristina was like a baby when she started the GVAA, and there's nothing more entrepreneurial than just starting an online school and then having the idea for the GVAA Rate Guide. So let's talk a little bit. Maybe brush people up on your career, because you've been acting for also, you're like 12 and you've been acting for 31 years.  02:12 - Cristina Milizia (Host) At least right. I have been acting for 31 years, so I am about to be 40 on February 1st, so very shortly, Happy birthday.  02:19 - Anne  (Host) Thank you.  02:20 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Happy early birthday. Yeah, I know, that's a big 140.  02:23 - Anne  (Host) Right.  02:24 - Cristina Milizia (Host) I'm feeling that when I'm like, wow, that's impressive, but no, I started acting when I was about eight years old. Again, my parents are musicians, so I was used to being on stage with them because they couldn't afford babysitters, so they were just like hey, kid, shake this maraca on stage, and that's what we did. So I learned to play all kinds of random instruments and sing three-part harmony and I got used to from a very early age just being like and I say this to my students you need to get used to being a dancing monkey to a certain degree which is like hey time to dance.  02:54 Okay, yes, I can do that. Ta-da Be ready to just go. And I had training really early on for just taking direction, performing on call, being on stage, which was an incredibly valuable skill set to have at an early age before you get to that point where you're more self-conscious.  03:11 - Anne  (Host) Yeah, I was going to ask you were you ever scared to be on stage or scared to perform, or was it just because it was so ingrained at a young age? Did it just happen?  03:20 - Cristina Milizia (Host) No, I was never scared again because it just happened. Since I was so small it just seemed like part of my family life, along with sound checks and winding cable and everything else we did. It actually just got embarrassing when I got to like nine or 10 and my parents are performing at the school and I'm up there and I'm like, oh my God, please, all my friends are here. This is so embarrassing. I don't want to be like you are, family is playing and I'm just like, oh my God.  03:46 So, yeah, around between eight and 12, I got embarrassed about it and then I wouldn't play with them anymore and then I wanted to do my own thing and I danced as well and I ended up dancing professionally for quite some time, before I had an accident when I was 25 that made that no longer possible. So, yeah, it was a very artistic upbringing, so that definitely prepped me for just being in the booth. And so when I started doing some voiceover, the very first audition I did I booked and it was with casting director Ned Lott, who went on to cast for Miyasaki and Disney character voices. And, yeah, he cast me my very first job ever and I still work with him, which is really cool.  04:22 - Anne  (Host) That's awesome. That's really awesome. And so your transition. I guess, when did you transition full time into voiceover?  04:29 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Well, I was determined not to be an artist because my parents, you know, were very much like kind of starving musicians growing up and it's a very difficult lifestyle, it's a very difficult profession to really make a full time living in, and so I was determined not to do that. So I studied like statistics, I went to like the school of management and I was like, oh my God, no, I can't.  04:47 - Anne  (Host) Not unlike being an entrepreneur right and having your own business. I mean, we're all kind of starving artists, aren't we In our own right? Yeah, so you studied statistics and said uh-uh.  04:56 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yep, and then I went to the School of Management and actually that was very helpful because, even though I didn't stay there, I actually learned a lot about management and communication with teams and how to deliver messaging and communication and people management, and so that actually was very useful. Even though I didn't complete my education there, I ended up going back to transfer to UC Berkeley and then studied theater, but dipping my toe in the business world and management was actually something that was very useful later on when starting GVAA.  05:25 - Anne  (Host) Absolutely, and so let's talk about your career then, kind of full-time and voiceover before the GVAA that would be GVAA. How long were you working and doing voiceover before you decided to start a business and what was it that led you to Actually want to start a business or an online school?  05:45 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Well, so I did voiceover from eight years old all the way through lower school, middle school, high school again. I just did it just here and there. It was never like a big deal, it was just something fun and a cool way to make some money, and we saved it, or my parents would use it for things that I needed. What type of jobs did you do at that age? Oh, that's a really great question.  06:02 The Bay Area they have a wonderful, a very robust toy and game industry up there and so all of my early work was toy work, toys and games. So leapfrog is up there in Oakland, so I did a lot of work for leapfrog. And then I worked for a company quite often called creativity and the music annex and they did a lot of work for just toy companies across the US. And I worked for another company called shoot the moon and they did like invention work where they would Create concepts and then present them to the big toy companies to purchase them. So I did a lot of invention work.  06:34 I did a lot of demo vocals as well, so like they'd want to have a product or a toy where they'd have like a celebrity doing, you know, the official voice of Barbie or whatever singing it. But I was like the guide vocal got, so I would do all the guide vocals and I would go through all the revisions of the song to get it to the final form and then they would give it to the celebrity and they would listen to my voice as their guide vocal before they did the final Things did they ever just pick you instead of the celebrity, or was it always the celebrity was because they wanted the marketing efforts, I guess, of the celebrity voice no, there were a few.  07:06 I actually did get cast and I got to do that, but it was actually fantastic training for animation, because a lot of these toy products are from animation Animation losses, you know, like Elmo and Barbie and Dora, and so I had to do a lot of voice matching, so it was actually great training because I had to mimic these characters and get as close as I could to have the client feel what the product was gonna be like.  07:28 So you got then into character then as well as yeah, I tell people all the time, toy work is fantastic training for animation in terms of just the level of skill required, in terms of what I kind of call vocal gymnastics, mimicry, really wide-ranging characters, really big characters that are very silly. I've been asked to do very, very silly things and again, just very like you know, singing a song in pig or in chicken. I did do a whole song, like it was a whole, like it was great, like we did all the notes were second and then they'd make music out of it and like it was wild, like it was just crazy stuff sometimes, and so there was just already a level of silliness that translated so well into animation later, because I was just not shy about You're gonna ask me to do some crazy thing.  08:17 I'm like yeah, sure.  08:17 - Anne  (Host) All right, let's go. How do you embody the pig singing oh God, is that work? How do you get yourself into that character? Absolutely, I can totally see that as Helping you and also why you're so successful as a character actress today.  08:31 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Thank you. Actually, one of the areas of animation I've really started transferring in more lately in past year or two, has been creature work and it's been like gibberish, kind of sure, or emotive, like animals or like mystical pets or things that are just like you know just where it's just there's no words, but it's just an emotional performance where you can hear a message but there's no words to it. Sure, very freeing art form. That again, you have to be willing to just let whatever come out of your mouth, right.  09:04 - Anne  (Host) Absolutely Come out of your mouth and that's been really cool, so I love that and I would imagine that that also allowed you to really delve into a lot of different ranges for your vocal Performances as well, because I know for a fact that you did a lot of little girl baby voices for the toys and so now, I guess, evolving into creature work, you get to do all sorts of ranges and I always think that vocal placement and understanding where sounds are coming from and where your Voice is coming from is so important in delivering different performances.  09:33 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Well, I originally started as little girl stuff that was on all this really cute. You know I gotta get my game down if I'm gonna do that. I started with just little girl stuff all the time, and then I just got younger and younger and younger. I Went into the baby stuff and that turned into you know, you know whatever, just really crazy. So yeah, I don't know, it just kind of evolved. People just kept asking me to go higher and higher and I was like, okay, now what about lower and lower?  10:10 Yeah, you know, we've done that too as my voice is matured, did get lower, yeah, like, so now I'll do stuff more, like down here yeah, you know, it's like my more big girl voice and then when to get really crazy, like we'll do weird stuff like that, that's awesome.  10:28 - Anne  (Host) I know that I fully have to take advantage of my morning voice if somebody wants me at a lower register Right, and then also being able to get yourself down to that place if you can after you've been voicing for hours, that's another skill. That's another skill set. So tell us all about your claim to fame. League of Legends. Was that your first big gig as a character, as a major character?  10:49 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, I would absolutely say so. I think that was in 2009. There were two characters that were introduced in the very beginning, and one, I believe, was rise, and the other one was Annie, and that was me. So a lot of people have a lot of nostalgia for Annie.  11:01 Sure she's also one of the very first characters that you get when you play, and so she's again nostalgia. She's one of the first characters that you get to play with, so a lot of people have a very attachment to her, and there's also an enormous statue of Annie and a moomoo at Riot Games, which is amazing. That blew my mind the first time I saw, but, yes, that was definitely the first big thing, but when it was done, it was nothing, it was not a known game.  11:24 It was an unknown game. I was one of the first two people to do it and so, wow, I did it and promptly forgot about it, never heard anything about it again. Yeah, because I didn't know that it had become anything. And they give us code names. I didn't even know the name of the game.  11:37 - Anne  (Host) Oh, okay, yes, so you didn't even know what game, and so when it came out, did you know that had to come out?  11:42 - Cristina Milizia (Host) No idea, no idea. I didn't know until I met my husband and that was in 2012, so it was like three years later, and he actually worked at Riot Games at the time, working on League of Legends, and we were on our first date. And I laughed and he said your voice sounds really familiar. Oh my gosh, how do I?  12:00 - Anne  (Host) not know this story, Cristina, I should know this story.  12:04 - Cristina Milizia (Host) It was part of the magic of our first date. And he was like your voice sounds really familiar If you've heard anything for Riot Games. And I was like I don't know, let me check my resume. And I'm like looked and I was like yeah, I'm some character named Annie and a moomoo, and I pronounced it and he was like your Annie and I was like yeah, and then he told me he's like your voice is famous all over the world and I was like that character really didn't.  12:27 - Intro (Announcement) Wow, you really didn't know.  12:29 - Cristina Milizia (Host) No, and I thought he was just like blowing smoke.  12:31 - Anne  (Host) Yeah, I thought he was just trying to like Cause first date.  12:32 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, yeah, I thought he was like trying to butter me up.  12:35 - Anne  (Host) Or like.  12:36 - Cristina Milizia (Host) I thought maybe he had a small cult following somewhere like you know something? And he was like no, go, look it up.  12:42 - Anne  (Host) And I was like and so it never occurred to you to look it up, because you weren't necessarily, let's say, a gamer at the time or you were on to other roles or what happened, just probably forgot about it.  12:53 - Cristina Milizia (Host) I didn't even know the name of the game, right.  12:55 - Intro (Announcement) So I didn't even know what to look for.  12:57 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, like they didn't tell you later. So I knew I was someone called Annie, and a Moomoo is more specific. But again, there are so many games that you do and then they just either don't become anything or they're small. And you know I wasn't doing big big games at that time. You know I would get and I was doing smaller more mobile games, toys. I wasn't used to anything going on a very large scale. So that was, yes, definitely my very first big thing that I didn't even know had become a big thing until I met my husband. And that's been. The funniest part is that my laugh is Annie's laugh, just higher pitched.  13:27 And one of my favorite moments ever is that I was at the airport getting off a flight. I was just in the airport and I laughed about something and then all of a sudden I hear this person and they're all Annie, annie. I love it, annie. And they just are running around the airport Like we see this person running trying to find her. Like Annie.  13:48 - Anne  (Host) Like I was like. Did you answer yes?  13:51 - Cristina Milizia (Host) I said legal legends, annie. They were like yes, and they were like you're Annie. And then we had to like sit down and have a conversation and I had never been recognized by my laugh at an airport. It just blew my mind and so that was like how you knew you were kind of famous, but it's fun because it's just the voice, like if I hadn't laughed no one would know, and that was like my big, like celebrity moment, right, it felt like I felt important.  14:14 - Anne  (Host) Well, that was the beginning of them, right, and I know how hard you've worked. I mean, having known you like literally I met you, I think, right after you got married, like maybe a year after you got married, and so we have known each other for 10 years and I know how hard you have worked to just make a space and to really claim your talents, which I always knew were amazing in the animation space, and you've gone on to these amazing roles. What was your evolution for that? Like, talk about your ethic, because one thing before I talk about your entrepreneurial ethic and getting into GVAA was you were focused. I remember you saying you were just focused on wanting to really do well in animation, so talk to us a little bit about that.  14:58 - Cristina Milizia (Host) I think I had been doing toys for so many years. At that point I had literally done toy work for every company in the US and the skill set was so close to animation. But the truth of the matter is that toy work doesn't pay very well and it's completely non-union. I believe and it was then as well A lot of it was non-union and it's not a robust industry. They don't make a lot of money and that's why you see a lot of toy companies branching into animation in order to survive. You know, like Mattel, having to go into animation now even live action films that was a big change in the industry is because kids didn't want toys anymore.  15:35 - Anne  (Host) They wanted iPhones they wanted all of them and technology Right exactly To survive they had to evolve with technology. That makes a lot of sense actually.  15:42 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah. So toy work really just it was not high paying work, even though it was fun. Also, toy work is not, in terms of acting, nearly as demanding or deep. It's fun, it's great, it's educational, it's cute, but you really have most like can you find the red ball? Great job, you know, it's not like meteor rolls with deep acting, in-depth acting, yeah, yeah. And so I knew that vocally I could do it, and so I just made this resolution that I was going to work for Disney, cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and I was like and your overnight success took how long?  16:16 - Anne  (Host) Because I'm always about the, my overnight success took at least 10 years.  16:19 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Right, well, I arrived in LA in 2012. And I don't think I booked my first animation job until probably 2016, 2015, 2016. And that was the beginning.  16:31 - Anne  (Host) So it took a good three years three or four years before I really actually started working in and you had a great agent at the time which I think had a lot of faith and belief in you and I think I would say fairly significant in terms of your growth in that area. Would you say that?  16:47 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, no, I had a wonderful agent who believed in me and actually went with him from one agency to another agency that had more animation connections and we had an honest conversation and he told me. He said you know, honestly, at the other agency you weren't making me any money, he said. But he said I feel like it's because you weren't getting the animation shots that you should be getting.  17:05 - Intro (Announcement) You got it the opportunities.  17:06 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, and that has to do with the relationship that the agents have with the animation studios, and so when he took me to AVO with him, he said I think you and Sandy are going to do really well and Sandy is one of the best animation agents in the country, and that's when things just exploded for me.  17:23 - Anne  (Host) But what a credit to what we're always telling voice actors and voice talent is to really develop those relationships with your agents and how they can really help you to blossom, and that two of you working together can really help to move careers forward. And it's so important because maybe had you not had that good of a relationship, you wouldn't have sat down and had that talk and you wouldn't have moved over to a different agency. That gave you different opportunities. So I love that you said that, so let's continue to talk around. That time you probably also had the idea for the GVAA. So your little entrepreneurial mind was like, okay, I don't have enough on my plate, but let's do something else, right?  18:03 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Well, I think I actually started GVAA sooner than that.  18:05 - Anne  (Host) I started GVAA.  18:07 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Was it 2010? No, it was like 2013, I think. Okay, okay, 2013, 2014,. It was before I started booking a lot in animation. I was coaching because I had coached for many years at Voice One in San Francisco Toys and Games and that's because I had also worked as a casting director for a production company for Toys and Games, and so I was not only an actor for it, I did casting. So I taught classes for Elaine Clark at Voice One, and so I was taking some private students and I was getting these students who had just been put through well, I don't know how to call it, but a demo mill or these weekends where they're like become a voice actor in a weekend and make your demo and people who had invested large amounts of money and were completely unprepared and they didn't understand why they weren't booking.  18:51 And I was seeing it more and more and it was so devastating to me. And I remember one man in particular. He had come to me, had spent like $5,000 or something on all his demos in a new website and he was like I don't know why I'm not booking. And I listened to his stuff and he had a list. He had a speech impediment nothing that's gonna ruin everything that can be corrected and things can be worked on. But nobody said anything to him, you know, and I had a list growing up and it's something I had to work on. It's not like the end of your life if that happens, but it does need to be addressed because you will book more if you don't have one in certain areas you know, for your own narration and that's just what it is.  19:28 And he was so devastated he had no idea that he had a lisp and he was so sad at the end of that call and then I was so angry that somebody had done this. And that's when I was like I'm going to start. You know, I knew all these wonderful coaches from Voice One. I knew Elaine Clark and David Rosenthal and Doug Honoroff again, fantastic coaches and I said there are great coaches out there. There needs to be a resource, there needs to be a place where people can access quality coaches that are not going to lie to them, that are going to give them, you know, the real information they need to succeed. And that's when I started that and David Rosenthal reached out to me and said you wanted to be a part of it and we shared the same dream and then we just took off together and he was wonderful because, again, I was only like 28 at the time You're like 12?.  20:18 I'm sorry she was so young, I was little. I mean, you know, it's not that little, I was 28, maybe 29.  20:26 - Anne  (Host) I just jest, but you were very young and very ambitious and I remember when I met you. Do you remember how we met, how we got connected? Oh my gosh, I don't. Somehow the name Dave Kovosie, right? Oh yeah, doesn't that just like, comes to mind. I believe that he introduced us via email and we met probably 2013 somewhere along, when you first began GVAA and bosses out there, if you did not know, I was a coach for GVAA in the very beginning and loved, loved, loved my experience, worked with amazing people Cristina, of course, and David and really I saw the whole online school blossom, and so I love Cristina.  21:05 When we would work together I mean you in the true spirit of entrepreneurship, right, you were willing to learn as you went, you were willing to try things, you were willing to listen to the people that you believed in that worked for you and would ask advice and literally built that from the ground up yourself. I'm going to say you know, along with, probably, david, but I think in the very beginning, it was all you really trying to create something for the good of the community, which is something that I love, and I was very proud to work for GVAA and it was my honor to. Whenever you would ask me a question, you know like, hey, what do you think about this? Or what do you think about this? And I also remember the rate guide, which is so instrumental. I mean, we're talking, you're a pioneer woman. I was considered, elaine Clark, a pioneer woman as well.  21:54 - Cristina Milizia (Host) She was really one of my biggest inspirations for doing it.  21:57 - Anne  (Host) She's wonderful. She's absolutely wonderful, and I like to consider myself a bit of a pioneer myself.  22:01 but also just for you to be able to say, look, this is what's needed in the community, this is a resource that's needed, and then to evolve that into a school where you hired. I mean, literally, you were still a voice actor and you literally were running a business. You were hiring people, you were paying people, you established an online school, which, at the time, was not something that existed, and there was coaches that were out there, but there was no real website out there. I remember where you could actually go and say, oh, I want this coach or I want to learn this and let me pay for it here, or let me do this here. And so everything was advanced for its age in 2013, just because it didn't exist before. And so you I consider to be one of the pioneers of those technologies, of having online schools and having them be successful, something that people can trust, and then I mean, let alone, the rate guide. Let's talk about, first of all, what were your challenges in building GVAA, and then what was it that led to the evolution?  23:05 - Cristina Milizia (Host) of the rate guide. I think in the very beginning it was actually Jonah Rosenthal. David Rosenthal's son was one of the very first people who helped me put together, and a wonderful woman as well who was an assistant to me, just putting in just all the content, building the website, building, you know, all of that stuff, and then David Rosenthal, of course, as well, through every aspect of it, and that was just getting again all the content in there, organizing everything. How were we going to do all of it? And again, the biggest motivation was just I felt like there was just this tremendous social injustice, you know, and I wanted to protect people Because, again, I'd also grown up very poor and it really bothers me when people are being taken advantage of. It's so wrong. So, yes, and we definitely were one of the very first, and David actually had something called online voiceover coach.  23:49 He had also started going in that direction, which was one of the reasons why, when we kind of merged our ideas, he already was right there with the mentality of how we're going to do this and having you and bringing on all these people that had so much more experience, because I had the original vision but there were so many people that were aligned with that vision and had more life experience, more experience, coaching.  24:10 - Anne  (Host) And I had run VOPEAPs as well. So I had run some online things educationally based, and I had also worked for some other institutions, some other coaching institutions, but nothing as large as the GBA, really trying to bring together all different genres and all different coaches.  24:25 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Right. So I got a lot of advice from you, from David, and I think one of the biggest lessons I learned. I think people have this idea of what leadership is you have power and whatever else, and the truth is that leaders eat last. Your job is to serve. Your job is to serve everyone else. You come last, putting their ideas first, listening, staying calm, being humble, trying to keep a cool head and having a larger vision of things. It is not easy to be a leader.  24:53 - Anne  (Host) And I think at that point it's very hard and you really have  24:56 to have self-control in terms of emotionally and sorting through everything and you have to have courage, and I love that. You said that it's not about the leader, it's about who they're serving, and you read any good book on leadership and that's like, first and foremost really is the best things you can do as a leader is to put together a team that supports you and that is amazing at what they do and can even be better than you in all those areas, and working together that's what creates a successful business and a successful team together.  25:27 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yep and I asked questions of Elaine. She was very, very helpful. In the beginning I looked up to her very much you, david, a number of our other coaches and because I knew that I had a lot to learn. And again, I had the passion, I had the drive, I had the vision, I had the desire to create this. But you have to reach out to the people to fill in those holes and you can't just try to assume you know how to do it all yourself, because you have to take advantage of the resources around you. So it was a very humbling experience and in the process, you know, it started to do really well.  25:57 We started going to conferences and presenting, which was wonderful, and then at one of the conferences or I remember if it was at the conference or perhaps before, but I had connected with David Tobak and I was mentoring him. He had come to me for some advice. I was either coaching him or mentoring him and he had decided that he wanted to make a little rate card for himself for his website, to kind of just establish his rates, which I thought was very smart. And he showed it to me. And Tobak is excellent with organization, he's very detail-oriented and it was just beautiful, like it was just beautifully laid out and I was like this is fantastic.  26:30 I was like this is great and I was just like I suddenly had this vision of doing this on a much larger scale. And there was a reason for this too. And I had actually just had an experience, not long before this happened, where I had been hired for an animation show, where I found out later that they had let go of their cast, that they were paying, I think. It was like I can't remember the exact number but normal animation rate, but non-union and then they had decided to hire all new actors at half the rate and I was one of those actors and this was through an agency.  27:03 - Anne  (Host) Wow.  27:04 - Cristina Milizia (Host) And I was just. You know, I was like, oh, that's one of my first animation jobs. I'm so excited, you know, I've been doing this for so long.  27:08 I'm just excited. And then I found out later what had happened, and I didn't even understand really the dynamics of any of this, and that even though I had been hired to be a different character, it was still the fact that they were trying to hold the line of no, this is the rate that we're going to ask for, we're going to walk, and the company was just like well, bye, I'm going to recast.  27:29 And then me being, I had a lot of experience as a voice actor, but I was hired and again I'm just all starry-eyed because it's my first animation job, which just happens to every voice actor. Everybody, you're starry-eyed. Oh my God, it's my first job. That's absolutely what happens.  27:43 - Anne  (Host) Yep, and I remember that at the time happening a lot and there being at least the starting of some discussions, because even Facebook groups at that time hadn't really materialized. I know I had one for VOPs, but there weren't like there are today. There weren't groups that could discuss those things, but it was one of the things that people were starting to discuss, including rates. It's one of the reasons why people would say do we publish our rate guides online on our website? That was a big question of the day and I remember there was a discussion about that. But I also then remember, just at the touch, in the beginning of it, when people would talk about oh my gosh, like here are actors trying to stand their ground and get paid a fair rate, and the company just saying, well, that's okay, see ya, and then hiring starry-eyed voice actors half the rate, and I remember that being an issue. And here you go wanting to take a stand about that, and I think that's wonderful.  28:36 - Cristina Milizia (Host) And this was also the time my husband reminded me we were discussing this before I came on today that this was also the time that this was really the rise of the pay to plays. Yes, this was the time when Voicescom and Voice 123, they were just taking over.  28:51 The rates were just plummeting, plummeting, plummeting.  28:56 And so in the midst of all this and I was just watching more and more work go non-union because I'm FICOR, so I see union and non-union work.  29:05 Toy work is exclusively non-union, so I wasn't going to go full union, I was going to be FICOR, so I didn't lose my toy work that I needed at the time, which was my only income aside from my one or two animation jobs which I was starting to get, and I just felt like I was watching my industry fall apart and everything that I had worked hard to try to get out of which was just these little tiny non-union job rates and being taken advantage of many times in my career up until this point.  29:31 And I was like, no, I don't want this to happen to any other talented people that are coming in this, where maybe they have a strong performance background, strong acting background, they're trained opera singer, whatever, and so they do a great job, but they have no idea what they should be paid for that skill set and they're just excited to be on a show, and it happens every day. And so when he showed me this little guide, I was like you know what? This is what we need. We need this for the non-union world. Yeah, absolutely.  30:01 - Anne  (Host) And you know, what's funny is that when there was all the discussion about the rate cards like, do we publish our rate cards Everybody at the time was saying, well, okay, what's the benchmark? Is there a benchmark? What should I charge? And especially for all of the non-union stuff that I was doing corporate work, explainer work, e-learning work everybody would say, well, what do you charge? What do you charge? And they'd say, how do we even know what's the benchmark?  30:22 And when we were all back in the day before there was a big band and there was the GVAA rate guide, there was a bunch of us that used to talk to one another and say, well, here is what I charge, but I'm not going to publish it on my website because every job is different. However, it's always good, especially for anybody new, and they still find this to be the case whenever I have a new student and they're like, oh my God, somebody just asked me what I would charge for this e-learning job or for this corporate job and what do I do? And you get into that panic and you have no reference, you have nothing to look at, to even benchmark your pricing on. And I'm so glad that the GVAA rate guard was started because it gave us something other than SAG-AFTRA okay, because SAG-AFTRA is what we were looking at, but SAG-AFTRA didn't have rates for e-learning. Really, it was one of those things where it was just a bunch of us who did a bunch of it and we would talk amongst each other and you were actually asking all those people, including myself, like what do you charge?  31:16 And so it was great. You were able to bring together everybody at the time to really get a good set of data for this rate guide and it literally is iconic now in the industry. I mean, I say this over and over again how many times do people reference the GVAA rate guide? And I am so proud to know you, christine, I'm so proud that you did this back then, knowing it would be a good resource for the community, and it's really just become legendary today. It's epic, it's the GVAA rate guide. I mean, it's literally it's its own entity. Now you know it should have its own website just for the usefulness and functionality.  31:55 - Cristina Milizia (Host) And we have more plans for it.  31:56 And first of all, I just want to say like, too, that a lot of people don't know the original story of the rape guide, and so I was really excited to talk about it with you today, because what happened after Toback showed me that little card, as I said hey, toback, will you please come work with me, work for GVAA. I want to build this for every area of voiceover, because exactly what you said that the union didn't talk about no, I don't think they talk about telephony. They don't know about all of these other areas. And I knew a lot of people. I knew a lot of coaches and I just started making phone calls and I spent a lot of time with you. I spent a lot of time with Josh at GoVoices, eric Shepard at Shepard Agency, wonderful agents and I did actually spend some time with union workers as well who explained their rape structures and I tried to translate it kind of in a non-union format for different areas, and all those people generously gave their time to build this, because we all believed in it.  32:51 - Anne  (Host) I remember at the time, we all believed in it and we all said, yes, this is exactly what's needed. This is what's needed in the industry.  32:58 - Cristina Milizia (Host) And there were so many areas, we were like what do we do? If I'm doing an airport announcement, I'm like I have no idea Let me go look.  33:05 I'm being played in a lobby of a dentist's office. I'm like, let me go research that. What if I'm a voice in a card that opens up and sings something? A hallmark card? Right, that's okay. And so we got this barrage of people just asking, and so it was built, and it was so much, so quickly that, unfortunately, I burned out a little bit. Well, I burned out because I was getting emails and messages and messenger notices at all times of day.  33:32 - Anne  (Host) Well, at this point, I know as a coach before the GBA rape guide, I know as a coach oh my goodness, when you set your students out into the world of working in voiceover and they've got their coaching, they've got a demo, and then all of a sudden that first job request comes in or how much would it cost they flock to the people like insane and just panic, panic, panic. Oh my God, what do I charge? Oh my God, what do I charge? Oh my God, what do I charge? What do I charge for this? So I know you, on a grand scale, were being barraged, because I was being barraged before the GBA rape guide existed and it became like one of those things where it's like I'd love to help you but I cannot answer you in this next second, right At two in the morning.  34:14 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Yeah, exactly.  34:16 - Anne  (Host) And so that's what is so wonderful about having that as a resource and congratulations on that. I mean, really, it's a wonderful, wonderful resource for the community and I'm just so proud to have been a small part of it back in the day and so proud of you and so proud of GVAA and just guys, bosses, this is a bad ass entrepreneur right here. She's a VO boss and you may not even have known that, but I am bringing that to light now and shouting it from the rooftop. So, Cristina, it's been amazing. How can people, if people need to get in touch with you because I know you're coaching a lot now and you're high in demand but how can people get in touch with you if they need to?  34:53 - Cristina Milizia (Host) So I am very excited to be coaching again. I took a long break to focus on animation, but now I am back and I feel like I have so much more information to share, which is really exciting. You can find me at globalvoiceacademycom. That's the website. If you look up GVAA rape guide, it's all connected on there too. If that's already in your normal search engine, it's all connected. You'll see under one-on-one coaching that I'm there.  35:16 I focus on animation, character work in general, toys, video games and career strategy things of that nature, and now that I'm back from my break also, you can expect some really cool stuff that we're going to be doing the rape guide.  35:29 We have plans for adding a whole, much larger non-union animation section very soon, doing research right now on audio description as well, which is a new area that's really exploding as well, and if people do have other areas that they would like to see on the rape guide, you can also reach out to us at globalvoiceacademycom. Let us know if there's stuff missing on there that you'd like to see, because we definitely have big plans to continue growing it. And, as I think it was Tim Friedland who told me or maybe it was at the Navigala that 80% of voiceover work is now non-union. I believe that is yeah, absolutely so. I am as dedicated to this project as ever. I took my little break and now I'm back and I'm here for the community and I want us all to rise and support each other and be able to fight for what we're worth.  36:15 - Anne  (Host) So thank you, Cristina, so much for that. It's been an absolute pleasure. I can only hope to have many more conversations with you in the future Me too, for the podcast. And so, bosses, here's your chance to use your voice to make an immediate difference in our world and give back to the communities, just like GVAA and Cristina Malizia have done. Give back to the communities that give to you. Visit 100voiceswhocareorg to commit. And also a big shout out to our sponsor, ipdtl. You, too, can connect a network like bosses, like Cristina and myself. Find out more at IPDTLcom. You guys have an amazing week. I love you, Cristina, and we will see you next week. I love you.  36:53 - Cristina Milizia (Host) Bye.  36:56 - Intro (Announcement) Join us next week for another edition of VO Boss with your host and Ganguzza, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at vobosscom and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies and new ways to rock your business like a boss. Redistribution with permission. Coast to coast connectivity via IPDTL.   

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It'd rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scientists who've discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved into the greatest money making machine the world has ever seen. And boy does it work: RenTec's alchemic colossus has posted annual returns in the firm's flagship Medallion Fund of 68% gross and 40% net over the past 34 years, while never once losing money. (For those keeping track at home, $1,000 invested in Medallion in 1988 would have compounded to $46.5B today… if you'd been allowed to keep it in.) Tune in for an incredible story of the small group of rebel mathematicians who didn't just beat the market, but in the words of author Greg Zuckerman “solved it.”Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowPilotLinks:The Man Who Solved the MarketThe QuantsBloomberg's 2016 RenTec profileAll episode sourcesCarve Outs:Modern Treasury's Transfer Conference RegistrationThe New LookCole Haan x Acquired!Class of Palm Beach (and the Mini Kelly inside the Birkin!!)More Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Note: references to Fortune in ServiceNow sponsor sections are from Fortune ©2023. Used under license.‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

In luxury, there's Hermès… and there's everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, Hermès sells the absolute pinnacle of the French luxury dream. Loyal clients will wait years simply for the opportunity to buy one of the company's flagship Birkin or Kelly bags. Unlike every other luxury brand, Hermès:Doesn't increase supply to meet demand (hence the waitlists)Doesn't loudly brand their products (IYKYK)Doesn't do celebrity endorsements (stars buy their bags just like everyone else)Doesn't even have a marketing department! (they barely advertise at all)And yet everyone knows who they are and what they represent. But, despite all their iconoclasm, this is not a company that's stood still for six generations. Unbeknownst to most, Hermès has completely reinvented itself at least three times in its 187-year history. Including most recently (and most dramatically) by the family's current leaders, who responded to LVMH and Bernard Arnault's 2010 takeover attempt by pursuing a radical strategy — scaling hand craftsmanship. And in the process they turned the company from a sleepy, ~$10B family enterprise into a $200B market cap European giant. Tune in for one incredible story!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowVantaLinks:Visuals for: 00:23: Haut a Courroies, the “high-belted bag” to carry saddles and boots00:45: Chaine d'ancre, “Chain of anchors”00:49: Jeu des Omnibus et Dames blanches, “White ladies at play”00:53: Screen printing each color on a scarf individually00:57: The Hermès oranges01:06: Sac à Dépêches (today: the Kelly Bag)01:07: Grace Kelly photo in LIFE Magaine01:26: Steps to sew a saddle stitch01:48: The Birkin Bag03:17: Petit hThe saddle stitch (video)Inside the Saddlery at the FaubourgHermès 2022 Annual ReportAxel Dumas InterviewAll episode sourcesCarve Outs:Anker GaN Prime 100W chargerMatterPerplexityThe Score Takes Care of ItselfMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe's most valuable company. And the pull for Acquired to finally tackle healthcare (18% of US GDP!) became too strong for us to resist. While we didn't know much about Novo Nordisk before diving in, our first thought was, “wow, seems like these new diabetes and obesity drugs mean serious trouble for big insulin companies.”And then… we realized that Novo Nordisk IS the big insulin company. And in a story befitting of Steve Jobs and Apple, they'd just disrupted themselves with the drug equivalent of an iPhone moment. Once we dug further, we quickly realized this company has it all: an incredible 100+ year history filled with Nobel Prizes, bitter personal rivalries, board room dramas, a generation-defining silicon valley innovation, lone voices persevering against all odds — and oh yeah, the world's largest charitable foundation at its helm. Tune in for one incredible story!Sponsors:Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners:J.P. Morgan PaymentsServiceNowVantaMore Acquired:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store!Links:Chart: US Healthcare Spend by CategoryChart: US Distribution and Reimbursement System (for pharmaceutical drugs)Chart: Insulin Supply ChainYouTube Talk: What People Get Wrong about the Finances of the Drug IndustryAlex Telford: The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about itOut-of-Pocket Health: Obesity DrugsOut-of-Pocket Health: US Healthcare System ProblemsAll episode sourcesCarve Outs:Noxgear Tracer 2 running vestDrops of GodWool by Hugh HoweyMere Mortals at San Francisco BalletBlackberry‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

David Rosenthal, President of Zion's Hope, kicks off our second year of Bible Prophecy Daily with a discussion of what a future Gaza Strip will look like following the Israel-Hamas War. Look for Arab nations working with Israel to establish a stable Gaza, fueled by the international influx of dollars, resources, and peacekeepers.  Listen as David examines these possibilities in “Post-War Gaza: What to Watch for in the Middle East.”  

Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acquired, we cozy up to the fire to do our annual review of the show “in public”. We reflect on what can only be described as an absolutely mind-blowing 2023 (LVMH! Jensen! Costco! Charlie! Half a million plus listeners!) and look ahead to some big things cooking for 2024. Plus as always, we wrap with extended carve outs (joined this year by some surprise guests) for anyone still shopping for those holiday perfect gifts.Huge thank you to everyone for making 2023 an amazing year again here in Acquired-land, and cheers to even greater things to come in 2023!Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Your product growth powered by Statsig (and listen to our ACQ2 interview with CEO Vijaye Raji) Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe (and listen to our ACQ2 interview with CEO Chase Lochmiller) Mark Leonard and David Senra's holiday book recommendations on Blinkist, plus our favorite books on Ben & David's Bookshelf More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store! Links / Extended Carve Outs! The Psychology of Money The Artist's Way Transitions Thinking, Fast and Slow Zojirushi hot water heater Nike Pegasus Trail 4 GORE-TEX Mill June Oven Silo Alias Warby Parker Amari glasses Hoka Ora recovery shoes Adobe Light Room The Eureka Theory of Everything is Wrong by Derek Thompson The Luxury Strategy Candide The QB School MNF ManningCast The Eras Tour Uppababy Vista The Joolz Aer Plus Coco At Present ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that matter, who started it? Who runs and governs it? Where is it headquartered? What's its business model?For the 11th largest market cap company in the world, Visa's history and strategy is almost shockingly unknown. A huge portion of the world's population uses their products on a daily basis (you might say Visa is… everywhere people want to be), but very few know the amazing story behind how that came to be. Or why Visa continues to be one of the most incredible and incredibly durable business franchises of all-time. (50%+ net income margins!! On $30B of revenue!) Today we do our part to change that. Tune in for one heck of a journey.Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Free access to our episode research on Blinkist plus our favorite books on Ben & David's Bookshelf Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe (and listen to our recent ACQ2 interview with CEO Chase Lochmiller) Your product growth powered by Statsig More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Check out the latest swag in the ACQ Merch Store! Links: Burger King rolling out credit cards in 1993 Get your BankAmericard MasterCard today! (!?) Episode sources Carve Outs: I Think You Should Leave Mistborn ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in his 99 years on Earth. We've gotten to have some special conversations on Acquired over the years, but this one truly takes the cake. Over dinner at his Los Angeles home, Charlie reflected with us on his own career and his nearly 50-year partnership at Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett. He offered lessons and advice for investors today, and of course he shared his speech on the virtues of Costco once again (among other favorite investments). We're so glad that we got the opportunity to record and share this with you all — break out your notebooks, tune in, and enjoy the singular wit and wisdom of Charlie Munger.Sponsor:Special thanks to Tiny for being the exclusive sponsor of this episode. You can get in touch with them here (just tell them Ben & David sent you), and order your very own bronze Charlie bust here.More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more ACQ Merch Store! ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought we knew everything but — unsurprisingly — Jensen knows more. A couple teasers: we learned that the company's initial motivation to enter the datacenter business came from perhaps not where you'd think, and the roots of Nvidia's platform strategy stretch back beyond CUDA all the way to the origin of the company.We also got a peek into Jensen's mindset and calculus behind “betting the company” multiple times, and his surprising feelings about whether he'd go on the founder journey again if he could rewind time. We can't think of any better way to tie a bow on our Nvidia series (for now). Tune in!Editorial Note: We originally recorded this episode before the horrific terrorist attacks in Israel. It feels wrong to release this episode — where the nation of Israel and the Mellanox team are discussed — without sharing our profound sadness for all the families who had innocent loved ones or friends killed, injured, or taken hostage. Our hearts go out to everyone coping through this dark moment in history.Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Your product growth powered by Statsig Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe (and listen to our recent ACQ2 interview with CEO Chase Lochmiller) Free access to Jensen's favorite business books on Blinkist, plus our favorites on Ben & David's Bookshelf More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more Merch Store! ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

This month, we mark the five-year anniversary of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting at the Tree of Life. On October 27, 2018, 11 worshipers were murdered for solely being Jewish, in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. As the first installment in a four-part series, we take you inside the Tree of Life building before it is demolished in the coming months to make way for a new complex dedicated to Jewish life and combating antisemitism. Hear from Carole Zawatsky, the CEO behind the reimagined Tree of Life, and Eric Lidji, director of the Rauh Jewish Archive, as they explain their mission: to preserve artifacts and memories so that the story is preserved forever. Carole shares her commitment to honoring the victims, and Eric discusses the challenges of documenting an ongoing tragedy. Together, they emphasize the power of bearing witness to history and the healing strength of remembrance. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC.  Episode Lineup:  (0:40) Eric Lidji, Carole Zawatsky Show Notes: Music credits: Relent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com),  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Virtual Violin Virtuoso by techtheist is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License Fire Tree (Violin Version) by Axletree is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. Al Kol Eleh (backing track), with Yisrael Lutnick Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, tag us on social media with #PeopleofthePod, and hop onto Apple Podcasts to rate us and write a review, to help more listeners find us. Transcript of Conversation with Eric Lidji and Carole Zawatsky: Eric Lidji: Pittsburgh definitely is not forgetting. It's ever present here. There are people who are healing and doing so in ways that, at least from the outside, are remarkable and very inspiring. And there are people who I'm sure have not fully reckoned with it yet. Carole Zawatsky: It's all too easy to walk away from what's ugly. And we have to remember. We can't walk away. Manya Brachear Pashman: Five years have gone by since the horrific Shabbat morning at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue, when eleven congregants were gunned down during prayer – volunteers, scholars, neighbors, doing what they always did: joining their Jewish community at shul.  This is the first installment of a series of episodes throughout the month of October devoted to remembering and honoring the lives lost that day and reflecting on how the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history changed those families, changed us, and changed our country.  Today, we take you to the Tree of Life building that stands on the corner of Shady and Wilkins Avenues in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood to hear from two people in charge of preserving the artifacts and memories of the vibrant Jewish life that unfolded inside those walls until October 27, 2018. In early September, our producer Atara Lakritz and I visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Squirrel Hill, where Jews have settled since the 1920s, is quite literally Mister Rogers' neighborhood. We were there to interview those touched by the events of October 27. But it didn't take us long to figure out that everyone there had been affected in some way.  All along Murray Avenue, in 61C Cafe, at Pinsker's Judaica Shoppe, at the Giant Eagle supermarket, when we told people why we were there, they all had a story, an acquaintance, a connection.  Later, walking through the glass doors of the synagogue felt like we were stepping through a portal, traveling back five years, when life stopped, and the reality of the hatred and terror that unfolded there began to haunt every step.  Atara and I were invited to accompany a final group tour of the building before it closed in order for preparations to begin for the building's demolition. The tour was painful, but we felt it necessary to share with our listeners.  As we left the lobby, we were told to take the stairs to the left. The stairs to the right were off limits. Someone had been shot there.  We were led to a small, dark storage room where chairs had been stacked for guests. A handful of people had hidden there as the shooter continued his rampage, but one man walked out too soon, thinking it was safe. When first responders later came to get the others, they had to step over his body.  In the kitchen, there were still marks on the wall where the bullets ricocheted when he shot two women hiding underneath a metal cabinet. The calendar on the wall there was still turned to October 2018 with a list of activities that were happening that week posted alongside it.  And in the Pervin Chapel where seven people died, pews punctured with bullet holes and carpet squares stained with blood were no longer there. No ark either.  But remarkably, the stained glass windows remained with images and symbols of Jewish contributions to America, the land to which the ancestors of so many worshipers once inside that synagogue had fled to and found safety. Those windows will be carefully removed by the son of the man who first installed them 70 years ago. And they will return, when the reimagined Tree of Life rises again.   Carole Zawatsky: The tragedy is a Pittsburgh experience. But it's also every Jew's experience. It shattered for so many of us our sense of security in America. This is our safe haven. This is where we came to. Manya Brachear Pashman: Carole Zawatsky is the inaugural CEO of the reimagined Tree of Life. Since November 2022, she has overseen the development of a new complex on the hallowed ground: an education center dedicated to ending antisemitism, including a new home for the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh; a memorial to the lives lost that Shabbat morning; a dedicated synagogue space where the Tree of Life congregation can return. Carole Zawatsky: What can we build to enrich Jewish life, to remember this tragedy, and to show the world that we as Jews should not be known only by our killers and our haters, we should be known by our joy, our celebrations, our rituals, our resilience. Manya Brachear Pashman: The founding director of the Maltz Museum in northeast Ohio, Carole has spent the last 30 years developing programs and education around the Holocaust and genocide, and overseeing projects that explore Jewish heritage from a national perspective and through a local lens. She led our tour. On October 27, 2018, the congregations of Tree of Life, New Light, and Dor Hadash, which all met in separate areas of the large, multi-story building, had just ushered in the new Hebrew year of 5779. Young students at the Hebrew school had written their own personal Ten Commandments that the teachers had hung on the walls of an upstairs classroom. Carole Zawatsky: Don't egg your neighbor's house, respect your parent. Every one of them said: Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not kill. And those 10 commandments that they wrote in their little student handwriting were thumbtacked up on the wall in the very classroom where the gunman was apprehended. Manya Brachear Pashman: Before the rebuilding of Tree of Life begins, Carole's no. 1 priority has been preserving the artifacts and remnants that bear witness to what happened. Artifacts include the ark, damaged by bullets, the Torah scrolls, which were remarkably unscathed but for the handles. The list of whose Yahrzeits fell on that day, still on the podium; and, of course, the children's artwork and the wall behind it. Carole Zawatsky: In the work happening here, and in my role as the CEO, I constantly ask: ‘Am I doing it right? Am I doing enough?' And preserving the evidentiary material was incredibly important to me, that we have the physical evidence to bear witness. And as that drywall in the classroom in which the gunman, the murderer, was apprehended, was coming down, I found myself asking: ‘Have I saved enough? Will this story be preserved forever? Have we done everything we can?' Manya Brachear Pashman: Helping Carole with this Herculean effort, is Eric Lidji, the director of the Rauh Jewish Archive at the Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Museum, in downtown Pittsburgh. Eric has been collecting documentation and evidence for the archive since October 28, 2018.  Painted stones left in memory of the victims, hand-made signs, pamphlets, and prayers from vigils, sermons from interfaith services. But also a pair of tennis shoes, a guitar, a framed leaf from the Raoul Wallenberg Tree planted in Israel, a cross affixed with Stars of David -- all individual expressions of a community-wide anguish. Eric Lidji: Even before I entered the building, we knew that there were going to be pieces of the building that had historic value. Since late 2018, I've been in the building numerous times, dozens of times, doing work there. And it sort of culminated in this opportunity in early June, where we were allowed to go in and identify pieces of the building that became historic that day, and figure out how to get them out. Manya Brachear Pashman: This is no simple job for anyone involved, no less for Eric, who is accustomed to handling archival materials from generations past, not the present. Eric Lidji: It's hard for me to disentangle the work of pulling these things out of the building with the knowledge that these families that I've come to know and love, that this is sort of directly related to their loved ones passing. Pittsburgh definitely is not forgetting, it's ever present here. There are people who are healing and doing so in ways that, at least from the outside, are remarkable and very inspiring. And there are people who, I'm sure, have not fully reckoned with it yet.  The stories that we're used to telling at the archive, they move much slower. You know, when you get records from 75 or 100 years ago, that's in motion too, but it's moving very slowly. And you can kind of sit there and watch it, and understand it. And get some sense of what it might mean. But when you're living through something, it's changing constantly, all around you. And it's responding to things in the world. And it's responding to people's internal resilience and their ability to grow. When I look out at the community, I see a lot of different stories. People are in a lot of different places. And it's going to be different on a month like this, where we're saying Yizkor. And it's going to be different in the early stages of the trial versus the late stages of the trial. It's assimilated into our lives now, it's a part of our lives. Manya Brachear Pashman: In 2019, Eric and journalist Beth Kissileff assembled an anthology of raw reflections by local writers about the Tree of Life massacre. It included only one essay by someone inside the building that day: Beth's husband, Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light. Eric also contributed his own essay. He wrote: “I have no special insight into why this attack happened, or why it happened here. I don't know what would have prevented it from happening here or what would prevent it from happening again somewhere else. I don't understand the depth of my sorrow or the vast sorrow of others. I asked him if four years later he would still write those words. Eric Lidji: I feel the same way. You know, there's a second half to that paragraph, which is that, I do have the materials and I can describe those. The premise of an archive is that at some point, we'll all be gone. And when we're all gone, our things are what speak for us. And at the moment, there's a lot of witnesses here, emotional witnesses, I mean, who can testify to what this means.  But there's going to come a time where they won't be there. And our job, I say our, I mean everybody's, our job in the present is to document our experience. So that when we're not here anymore, people in the future have the opportunity to have access to the intensity of the feelings that we had. That ultimately is how you prevent complacency. And so I don't claim any, I don't understand anything in the present. But I do understand the records. And I hope that we're being a good steward and custodian of them so that in the future, people have the opportunity to have access to real human feeling and so that they can really understand what this experience was like for people who were alive today. Manya Brachear Pashman: The Rauh Jewish Archive has collected and preserved thousands of artifacts and documents, but no physical or intellectual access has been granted yet. Cautious care has been taken to make sure families and survivors are ready and know what's involved in making the materials available to the public. Once that happens, a trove of electronic materials will be uploaded to the newly launched October 27 Archive, which will become the public face of the collection. The electronic catalog will help individuals, schools, and institutions such as Tree of Life to tell the story they're trying to tell.  Carole Zawatsky: We're the only generation to bear witness to this. The next generation will not bear witness. Their children will not bear witness. We have a moral obligation to ensure that these lives are remembered and memorialized, and that we as Jews and as citizens of this earth remember what hate looks like and work toward a better world. It's all too easy to walk away from what's ugly. And we have to remember. We can't walk away. Manya Brachear Pashman: The Tree of Life building is now a shell of what it once was. The stained glass windows will soon be removed for safekeeping until the new building is ready to welcome them back. As the demolition crews arrive to remove what's left, Carole's focus has shifted. Carole Zawatsky: Our focus now is truly on working with our architect, working with the exhibition designer, and forming a new institution. This is an incredibly special moment for us, as we come together and continue to crystallize our mission, our vision, and form this new institution that will be a significant part of the Pittsburgh community, along with the national community. Manya Brachear Pashman: The architect for the project, Daniel Libeskind, a son of Holocaust survivors who is renowned for his redesign of the new World Trade Center site, has described the spiritual center of the Tree of Life as a Path of Light, which connects and organizes the public, educational, and celebratory spaces. Carole Zawatsky: We can never as Jews allow ourselves to be defined by our killers. And I'm delighted to be working with Daniel as our architect and his concept of bringing light into the darkness. Vayehi or, let there be light. We have to bring light back to the corner of Shady and Wilkins. And side by side with tragedy, as we have done throughout all of Jewish history, is also celebration. To have baby namings and B'nai Mitzvot. Celebrate Shabbat and celebrate holidays side by side. That this is the most Jewish thing we can do. When the temples were destroyed in Jerusalem, what did we do? We recreate. And that is the strength and resilience of the Jewish people. Manya Brachear Pashman: Carole also continues to build a multifaith donor base, comprised of foundations and individuals from Pittsburgh and across the country, to raise the $75 million needed to make the reimagination a reality, ideally by 2025. The reasons why donors give vary, but in most cases they're deeply personal. Carole Zawatsky: The events of 10/27 are personal for everyone. For those people who tell us: I heard the gunshots from my kitchen. I was with my children. From people across the country who experienced a sense of loss of safety. To non-Jews who say: I have to have something to tell my children why some people don't like their friends. What did I do? How did I help be a part of the solution? Manya Brachear Pashman: For generations, the Jewish people have confronted antisemitism in its many forms. But through it all, the Jewish calendar continues to guide the community through celebrations of life and beauty and wonder. Carole describes it as the bitter and the sweet.  Carole Zawatsky: I've had on occasion, a Rabbi, a funder: ‘How are you doing? How do you get through this?' And for me, there's often a soundtrack in my head. And one of my favorite Hebrew songs is “Al Kol Eleh,” and through the bitter and the sweet. To me, it is the definition of Judaism. And it's the definition of what we're doing. Manya Brachear Pashman: Do you mind sharing a bit of that song with us now?  Carole Zawatsky:  Al hadvash ve'al ha'okets Al hamar vehamatok Al biteynu hatinoket shmor eyli hatov Al kol eleh, al kol eleh. Manya Brachear Pashman: This podcast is dedicated to the 11 lives lost on October 27, 2018: Joyce Fienberg,  Richard Gottfried,  Rose Mallinger,  Jerry Rabinowitz,  Cecil Rosenthal,  David Rosenthal,  Bernice Simon,  Sylvan Simon,  Daniel Stein,  Melvin Wax,  Irving Younger.    May their memories be for a blessing.

It's a(nother) new era for Nvidia.We thought we'd closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up: Jensen & crew had set out on an amazing journey to accelerate the world's computing workloads. Along the way they'd discovered a wondrous opportunity (machine learning powered social media feed recommendations). They forged incredible Power in the CUDA platform, and used it to triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversity — the stock market penalty-box.But, it turned out that was only the precursor to an even wilder journey. Over the past 18 months Nvidia has weathered one of the steepest stock crashes in history ($500B+ market cap wiped away peak-to-trough!). And, it has of course also experienced an even more fantastical rise — becoming the platform that's powering the emergence of perhaps a new form of intelligence itself… and in the process becoming a trillion-dollar company.Today we tell another chapter in the amazing Nvidia saga: the dawn of the AI era. Tune in!Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe (and listen to our recent ACQ2 interview with CEO Chase Lochmiller) Your product growth powered by Statsig Free access to our episode research on Blinkist plus our favorite books on Ben & David's Bookshelf More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more ACQ hats are back in stock in the ACQ Merch Store! Links: Asianometry on AI Hardware Episode sources Carve Outs: Alias Moana ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

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 norm (and give them excellent healthcare + 401k benefits) — and are almost 3x more profitable on labor than Walmart. Speaking of Walmart, Costco stocks 40x fewer SKUs than their Bentonville-based rivals — yet sells an average of 15x more volume of each. And oh yeah, practically all of Costco's C-Suite started their careers as baggers and checkout clerks! Tune in for a mind-bending exploration of one of the world's most iconic — and iconically unique — companies.Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Your product growth powered by Statsig Free access to our episode research on Blinkist plus our favorite books on Ben & David's Bookshelf Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe (and listen to our recent ACQ2 interview with CEO Chase Lochmiller) More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more Links: The Science of Hitting Warren Buffett's Costco joke Episode sources Carve Outs: Tifosi sunglasses Dwells “take off everything” Jeremy Giffon on Invest Like the Best Dogpatch David Lidsky's great piece on Acquired in Fast Company ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, August 4th, 2023. Isn’t it about time to take action on how you're going to give your children and grandchildren a good music education? Moses, David, and all the Saints of the church have worshiped God with musical might, so let’s be confidently found doing the same. Bohnet Music Academy instructs children and adults in how to be musically literate. That’s everything you need to know and do as the musician God made you to be. Lessons are available locally in Moscow, ID and online. What’s great is that in addition to getting vocal training, you can also study the piano, guitar, violin, cello, drums, or the trumpet. Visit Bohnetma.com/crosspolitic for more information on how to equip your family to serve God’s musical commands. B-O-H-N-E-T MA.com/crosspolitic http://bohnetma.com/crosspolitic https://www.dailywire.com/news/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-sentenced-to-death-by-jury Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced To Death By Jury A jury on Wednesday sentenced the man who gunned down 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh to death, nearly five years after the attack. The shooter, whom I will not name, was found guilty in June of all 63 counts he was facing, including 11 counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death and 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death. The jury’s unanimous decision was announced by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville, who presided over the trial, which took place in downtown Pittsburgh. The judge will officially sentence the shooter to death later this week. The victims were from three Jewish congregations who gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018. Two other worshipers and five police officers were also wounded by the gunman, who unloaded a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three Glock .357 handguns during his attack. Victims of the shooting were: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. The shooting is considered by authorities to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. Attorneys representing the shooter asked for a life sentence if he pleaded guilty, but prosecutors, with the support of most of the victims’ families, refused and took the case to trial to pursue the death penalty. The shooter’s lawyers also argued that he was impaired by mental illness and a delusional belief system took over his thinking, dictating that he had to kill Jews to stop a genocide of white people, the Associated Press reported. “He turned this place of worship into an exhibit in his criminal trial,” U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan said while arguing for jurors to recommend the death penalty, according to the Pittsburgh Gazette. A criminal complaint showed that the man told authorities he intentionally targeted the synagogue because he hoped to kill Jewish people. The shooter’s defense attorneys acknowledged that he had done the shooting but asked jurors to “scrutinize his intent.” We now go across the pond for this one! https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/02/uk-tories-enforce-diversity-quotas-for-new-members-of-parliament/ UK Tories Enforce Diversity Quotas for New Members of Parliament. The United Kingdom’s ‘Conservative’ Party has implemented new diversity quotas and guidelines for selecting candidates – would-be Members of Parliament (MPs). The targets include age as well as ethnicity and gender. Diversity quotas are in place even before candidates are considered as the party’s “Sifting Committee,” which is responsible for sorting through applicants after applying for the position, must have specific characteristics: “The Sifting Committee must comprise a minimum of one woman and one young person under the age of 30. The additional Association members of the Committee should reflect the different interests of the constituency, i.e. should have a balance of gender, age and ethnicity.” After the initial sift, the Selection Committee must “recognise their responsibility” to ensure that candidates are chosen in a way that “displays diversity and variety and which has a due regard to the local profile of the constituency” and guarantees a balance of genders. The selection rules also state that the process must be “inclusive and free from discrimination” and “fully acknowledge and embrace diversity,” except when considering female candidates, in which case “some degree of positive discrimination is permitted.” The rules add that anything considered “indirect discrimination” is prohibited; meaning, any requirement that could have a “disproportionate impact” on one group. President Donald Trump highlighted the Conservative’s shift to the “far left” in an interview with Nigel Farage earlier this year. More recently, the party expelled a mayor for ‘repenting‘ after attending a Pride event. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/orlando-magic-nba-team-donated-ron-desantis-super-pac Orlando Magic donated $50,000 to Ron DeSantis Super Pac The Orlando Magic NBA team has donated $50,000 to a Super Pac supporting the presidential bid of Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. According to Federal Election Commission records, the Never Back Down Super Pac received the donation made by the basketball team on 26 June. Further results showed the team making donations to other political causes in past years, with $500 going to Conservative Results in 2016, $2,000 to Maverick Pac USA in 2014 and another $500 to Linda Chapin for Congress in 2000. In an initial statement to Popular Information, a Magic spokesperson said: “We don’t comment publicly on political contributions.” However, in a later follow-up statement, a spokesperson clarified the donation, saying that the check was “dated/delivered on May 19”, five days before DeSantis declared his presidential bid. “This gift was given before Governor DeSantis entered the presidential race. [It] was given as a Florida business in support of a Florida governor for the continued prosperity of central Florida,” the spokesperson said. According to Never Back Down’s website, the Super Pac describes itself as a “grassroots movement to elect Governor Ron DeSantis for president in 2024”. The donation has drawn criticism online, particularly given the Magic’s claims of supporting “diversity, equity and inclusion all year long” and DeSantis’s culture wars in which he announced plans to block DEI programs in state colleges among other legislation targeting minority and marginalized groups including LGBTQ+ communities. The Orlando Magic team is under Amway North America, a multi-level marketing firm co-established by Richard DeVos, the late father-in-law of Trump’s education secretary Betsy DeVos. Over the years, the DeVos family has made multiple donations to conservative organizations. In 2006, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation made a $540,000 donation to Focus on the Family, a Colorado-based organization that opposes same-sex marriage and abortions, HuffPost reports. In 2008, Richard DeVos donated $100,000 to Florida4Marriage, a group that campaigned to add a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. “That’s just a sacred issue of respecting marriage,” Richard DeVos said in a 2009 interview in reference to his donation. Following reports of the donation, the National Basketball Players Association, a union representing NBA players, issued a statement on Wednesday, calling the donation “alarming”. “A political contribution from the Orlando Magic is alarming given recent comments and policies of its beneficiary. NBA governors, players and personnel have the right to express their personal political views, including through donations and statements. “However, if contributions are made on behalf of an entire team, using money earned through the labor of its employees, it is incumbent upon the team governors to consider the diverse values and perspectives of staff and players. “The Magic’s donation does not represent player support for the recipient,” the union said. https://www.boundingintosports.com/2023/08/shakeups-continue-at-espn-as-nba-analyst-mark-jackson-is-fired-after-10-years-with-the-network/ Shakeups Continue at ESPN As NBA Analyst Mark Jackson Is Fired After 10 Years With The Network Mark Jackson is a New York native who played his college basketball at St. John’s before being chosen by the Knicks in the first round of the 1987 draft. He spent two separate stints with the franchise, and his time in the shadows of The City That Never Sleeps had him ready for the big stage when he wanted to transition to television. He would go on to a coaching career by taking the helm in Golden State, just before the eventual arrival of Steve Kerr and a slew of NBA titles. Still, he rebounded nicely, and would later famously team with Mike Breen and Van Gundy to form one of the best broadcasting trios in all of sports. That is – until this week. In response, Mark Jackson released a long statement, saying goodbye: “This morning, unexpectedly, I was informed that my services were no longer needed at ESPN. Although shocked and dismayed with the suddenness of it all, I would like to thank ESPN and all the staff of the NBA ESPN crew for allowing me to be a part of the organization for the past 15+ years. I would also like to thank the NBA fans watching at home and in the arenas throughout the league for all of your support. To the NBA, a heartfelt thank you for allowing a kid to continue to accomplish his dreams. “It has been an honor to sit beside two LEGENDS in the business, who are like brothers to me, Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy, and learn so much from them,” the former Knicks standout continued. “Lisa Salters is a GOAT and like a sister to me and I’m so proud of the work she continues to do. To the best producer in the world, and my friend, Tim Corrigan, I give the utmost gratitude and thanks for always inspiring and supporting me. To all of the staff and crew, that may have never been seen on camera… please know that you were always seen by me and so greatly appreciated.” Jackson then concluded his sign-off from The Worldwide Leader in Sports gracefully, giving praise to God on his way out the door. “Finally, I wish greater measures of success to the new ESPN team. May they continue to elevate this game that has given me a home and a life. I leave ESPN with nothing but gratitude, all the while knowing that my highest praise goes to God! Through it all, He has always sustained me and His grace allows me to know that there are greater blessings ahead. I look forward to what He has in store next.” Jackson’s layoff is the latest in a series of cost-cutting moves by the network, which has experienced a sharp drop in popularity and profitability in recent years.

Nike — it's perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on earth than any other footwear company — by a long shot.If you read Shoe Dog or watched Air, you may think you know its history. But Shoe Dog ends in 1980, and Air… well let's just say it's an enjoyable piece of fiction. And it turns out (as always) that the real story is filled with far more drama, twists and business lessons than either of those works.We've been wanting to cover Nike for a long time, and thanks to our LPs who voted to choose this episode it's finally here. So lace up your Vaporflys, Air Maxes, Dunks or Jordans (or your Monarchs, hey we don't judge), head out for a long run or walk and enjoy!Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Free access to Blinks of our episode research on Blinkist Scalable, clean and low-cost cloud AI compute from Crusoe All of your product growth powered by StatsigRegister for Statsig's SF Event with Ben and David! More Acquired!: Get email updates (+ hints on the next episode topic) Join the Slack Subscribe to ACQ2 Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more Links:Episode sourcesCarve Outs: Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman and on Ben Thompson Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Nobody's perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazine advertisement, they managed to get damn-close to the perfect luxury business (even Bernard Arnault would be jealous!). Porsche is both quality AND quantity, owning the most prestigious brand in its market, while at the same time churning out almost half a million mass-market soccer mom/dad SUVs per year. And like any good luxury brand, it's packed with enough juicy family drama and creeping takeovers to fill a Netflix series.Yet, behind it all lies perhaps the darkest origin story we've ever told on Acquired. Not only was Porsche was started by Nazis, Adolf Hitler himself was deeply involved in its early fortunes. And, following WWII, the Allies simply looked past these facts and essentially bestowed a license to generate wealth on Porsche and its owners — setting the stage for them to become one of the top ~15 wealthiest families in the world today.Joining us to explore it all is perhaps the very most-qualified person in the person in the world: the one & only Doug DeMuro. Not only is Doug the largest independent car reviewer on YouTube with millions of subscribers (we're HUGE fans), he previously worked at Porsche corporate and owns a legendary Porsche Carrera GT — which served as the recording backdrop for this episode. Make sure you tune in to watch the video version! :)ACQ2 Show + LP Program: Subscribe to the shiny new ACQ2! Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more. Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: …in touch with Tiny! (just tell them Ben & David sent you) Vanta: a free trial + $1,000 off any compliance audit product Pilot: 20% off your company's first six months of service Links: Doug's YouTube channel (which we HIGHLY recommend) Cars & Bids Episode sources Carve Outs: ResortPass Seinfeld Cast Charlie Rose Interview Compilation WhistlinDiesel ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and asked him to hang out for a wide-ranging conversation. :) We talk about his 20 years working with Barry Diller, starting his career at Allen & Company, how the Uber CEO search process ACTUALLY went down… and oh yeah, the massive transformation that's happened at Uber over the past few years. When Dara took over the company it was bleeding huge sums of cash, losing share to competitors and embroiled in one of the biggest corporate controversies in recent memory. Fast forward to today and it's turned cashflow positive while also having tripled revenue to over $30B (on $120B in GMV) and solidified its rideshare dominance in the US. And in perhaps the biggest change, it's done it all while staying out of the headlines. Tune in!ACQ2 Show + LP Program: Subscribe to our interview show, ACQ2! Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more. Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: 20% off Common Room's Team plan for 2023 Up to 10% off your first year of business insurance with Vouch A free trial of PitchBook + links to research reports! LinksBen & David on My First MillionNote: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team of aviation geniuses who produced some of the greatest airplanes in history: the U-2, the Stealth Fighter, and the incomparable SR-71 Blackbird. The second story is arguably even more important, but not widely known! It's the secret and true origins of Silicon Valley — and Lockheed's primary role in it. We take you from WWII to the Cold War, all the way to today to unpack and analyze the industry dynamics of defense contractors in the modern era. Tune in and prepare to be blown away by what you'll learn about the history of our industry!ACQ2 Show + LP Program: Subscribe to the shiny new ACQ2! Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more. Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Pilot: 20% off your company's first six months of service Vanta: A free trial + $1,000 off any compliance audit product …in touch with Tiny! (just tell them Ben & David sent you) Links: Ben Rich's Skunk Works Kelly's 14 Rules of Skunk Works LMSC's “Seven Tenets” Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley Episode sources Carve Outs: Nier: Automata The Blackbird speed check story EGO Lawn Tools (just in time for Fathers' Day!) ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify's amazing HQ studio (check out the video version of this episode — which plays natively on Spotify!). This was an incredibly special and timely conversation: for those who haven't been paying attention over the past few years, after revolutionizing music Spotify has now ALSO completely transformed our own industry in podcasting. Starting from way behind with ~zero market share in 2018, Spotify has now aggregated the listener market and amazingly surpassed Apple as the world's largest podcast platform — including close to home with the Acquired audience, where it has 60%+ market share among you all!We discuss the origins of this “second act” strategy with Daniel, the vision to move from a music company to an audio company, and what's coming next with Spotify's entry into Audiobooks. And of course we relive some key moments from the Acquired canon that Daniel was involved in, including his pivotal conversations with Taylor Swift and her team convincing her to come back to streaming following the release of 1984. Tune in!ACQ2 Show + LP Program: Subscribe to our interview show, ACQ2! Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more. Sponsors:Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: All of your product growth powered by Statsig Up to 10% off your first year of business insurance with Vouch A free trial of PitchBook + links to research reports! LinksFollow Daniel on TwitterNote: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

David Rosenthal is a world-renown keyboardist, musical director, synthesizer programmer and composer. At the heart of his work is the Mac, and this week he talks with Stephen and David about his background, career, gear and more.

Episode 440: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) are joined by the Acquired podcast (@AcquiredFM) hosts, Ben Gilbert (@gilbert) and David Rosenthal (@djrosent) to talk about scaling to a large podcast, the company they would like to own, the CEO's you don't want to compete against, and the 100+ year history of Nintendo. Plus, a YouTube Premium subscription giveaway! Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Vote for MFM to win a Webby: mfmpod.com/webby Click here to sign up for our event in Austin, TX on Saturday April 29th: mfmpod.com/atx Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: *Acquired podcast *Wait But Why *Marques Brownlee *Nintendo *NVIDIA * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (01:45) - Intro to Acquired (01:58) - What to do when your schtick runs out (10:00) - How to scale to a big podcast (14:05) - How big do you have to be to be at the top of the business category? (23:55) - What commonalities are there between weird companies? (27:40) - How to tell a real from a fake contrarian (34:45) - Nintendo (37:45) - Which company would you most want to own? (40:45) - Who would you least want to compete against? (52:30) - Business ideas (56:40) - Will you ever sell Acquired? (58:20) - Best ways to make money as a podcast ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More