Acquired Podcast
@AcquiredFM • 88,182 subscribers
Every company has a story. Acquired tells the definitive history and strategy of the world's greatest companies. Hosted by @gilbert and @djrosent.
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Vanguard has directly saved investors $500 billion in fees since 1975. And it's all because of their unique structure: they have no shareholders (besides their customers!), so they have no need to generate profits. Our latest episode, in your podcast players now.
Acquired Podcast81,134 views • 4 months ago
When the Toy Story team was making the army men in 1994, it would have been very difficult to put the 'chutes inside their backpacks. So instead... They just made two different variants! And used some clever "camera" work to switch between the two models, and hide when the swap occurred.
Acquired Podcast12,693 views • 1 month ago
Amazing video of a young Pete Docter animating Woody during the making of Toy Story. Because of computational limits in 1994, if you viewed a character in full-res, you couldn't get real-time feedback while animating. So they used these basic polygon approximations instead. Which are... a little terrifying.
Acquired Podcast13,684 views • 1 month ago
On our episode, we mentioned that there's some footage floating around of Toy Story scenes that have gone through the layout phase, but not full animation. Here's one. The characters are lifeless and just getting dragged around the screen. But even in low-fidelity, the team can still use it to get a sense of if the story's working enough to proceed through the rest of the pipeline.
Acquired Podcast11,389 views • 1 month ago
Unclear if we're getting roasted here or not. But we'll take it.
Acquired Podcast19,892 views • 9 months ago
The complete business history of Formula 1. Available now.
Acquired Podcast11,726 views • 6 months ago
The magic business model layers of gift cards + mobile ordering for Starbucks:
Acquired Podcast26,081 views • 2 years ago