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23/06/2026

How did Disney become the best business of all the classic Hollywood studios?

Animation (which is uniquely well-suited to compounding), the flywheel, and... a lesson learned the hard way.

22/06/2026

In your podcast players now! The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the childhood memories of billions of people (including, likely, all of you) and is a reliable, predictable profitable business. But it didn’t start that way. During Walt’s era, Disney operated like an unhinged moonshot factory, blowing its finances on one seemingly crazy project after another, like the very first feature-length animated film or a theme park inspired by Walt's fascination with model trains (spoiler: Disneyland).

Walt’s relentless ambition to bet the company over and over again not only created some of the most monumental artistic achievements of the 20th century (Snow White, Fantasia, Disney Imagineering), but also resulted in the accidental invention of the modern “flywheel” business model. Today we tell the story of the ultimate marriage of art, commerce, and engineering — The Walt Disney Company: Walt's Era.

20/06/2026

In 2012, SpaceX started doing stuff that only governments used to do

Full episode (from May 2020) here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/spacex

15/06/2026

Where Elon got the first rocket for SpaceX in 2001

Full episode (from May 2020) here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/spacex

14/06/2026

The SpaceX Falcon 1's first flight... not exactly a success

Full episode (from May 2020) here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/spacex

12/06/2026

How SpaceX proved the world wrong and landed a rocket back on Earth

Full episode (from May 2020) here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/spacex

11/06/2026

Vanguard went from 0% index funds in 1974 to managing $10 trillion in passive funds today

🎙 From Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)

08/06/2026

Warren Buffett crushed the S&P 500

🎙 From Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)

06/06/2026

Vanguard forced out Saint Jack Bogle in 1999

🎙 From Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)

05/06/2026

Investment fees matter more than you think

🎙 From Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)

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