Acquired
Deep-dive business histories. Their AI company episodes are masterclasses.
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Episodes
Anthropic: The Company Building Claude
The full story of Anthropic — from Dario Amodei's departure from OpenAI to building a $60B AI safety company. Ben and David cover the founding, Constitutional AI development, business strategy, and why Anthropic's approach to safety may be the most commercially viable.
NVIDIA: The Most Important Company in AI
How NVIDIA went from gaming GPUs to controlling the most critical infrastructure in AI. The technical decisions, strategic partnerships, and business model innovations that made Jensen Huang's company worth $3 trillion.
OpenAI: From Nonprofit to $150B Valuation
The complete OpenAI story — the nonprofit origins, Sam Altman's leadership, the Microsoft partnership, the board drama, and the pivot to a capped-profit structure. How a research lab became the most valuable startup in history.