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Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · 109 episodes with transcripts

ACQ2 is Ben and David's conversations with experts on topics related to Acquired. Acquired the stories of great companies — and ACQ2 dives deeper into the lessons we can learn from them, often with the protagonists themselves.

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The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin

December 8, 2025

David Rosenthal (0:00)

Hello, Acquired Listeners. We are coming to you today with a very fun ACQ2 interview with our buddy, Andrew Ross Sorkin. We got to know Andrew over the summer for our Radio City Show, where he had a delightful cameo with us. And he's got a new book, 1929 And he's doing a book tour, and we said, hey, do you want to…

Ben Gilbert (0:38)

So there's the New York Times DealBook, the daily newsletter. There's the DealBook Summit, which happens every December. There's, of course, that he co-created the show Billions. He is every single morning from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern on CNBC doing Squawk Box. He's written Too Big to Fail and 1929

David Rosenthal (0:59)

Two major books. Yeah. This was a very fun conversation.

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