Acquired

Talking about great businesses, I want to talk about Disney.

You've been a bit obsessed with listening to the Acquired podcast on Disney, and what is it, like four and a half hours?

I just really enjoyed it.

I really, really, really enjoyed it.

Absolutely thrilling.

It's just mind-blowing, isn't it? Honestly, I feel like

I'm back in the Disney Acquired podcast.

You would create

Good lead in.

So the Acquired podcast, I never really got into them because they're four hours long at times.

That's too daunting.

But I keep hearing about them.

I did listen to this podcast.

There's this podcast called Acquired where they do, they go to deep dive on a company, whatever it is, something.

And they did one on the business of Seinfeld, which is fascinating.

Mm.

So there's actually on computers.

One of my favourite podcasts right now is called Acquired and they do a three-part series on...

So it's all about Nintendo and how Nintendo Create started and then it went into how all the other consoles come and the whole of computer programs and games.

Fucking fascinating.

Insane.

Is Acquired...

They're like three-hour long episodes.

This was a three-, four-hour podcast on Nintendo.

So I just listened to the most recent episode of the Acquired podcast.

It focused on the business of Seinfeld.

Now, I found the whole thing really fascinating, but there was one story in particular from this episode that really caught my attention.

If we don't have enough hardness in our life, that's a problem.

And if you know this is the case, you can be much more selective about how you employ technologies, all right? There you go.

According to the Seinfeld podcast from Acquired, that show, so Jerry focusing on doing hard stuff and ignoring efficiency, that show has produced somewhere between $4 to $5 billion of revenue since its initial conception, so he must be on to something.

All right, so that was my thoughts for today.

Hope you enjoyed it.

He doesn't do nearly as much these days, but...

I don't remember who turned me on to the Acquired podcast, but I think I've told you guys about it.

It's really long form, and it kind of tells the story of some of the biggest and most successful companies.

So how did Apple, how did Nike, how did Home Depot, all these places, they have really interesting stories.

And so that gets them to this revenue generator 30 years after the show that's still $100 million a year.

Good for them, right? It's insane.

Anyway, the Acquired store is great.

They do a great job, and if you've got four hours and a long road trip, You might try it.

And I texted him about a podcast.

My wife is an absolute devotee of this podcast called Acquired.

Which is, I mean, it's so rich and deep.

It's like three or four hours at a time on the origin of big famous companies.