hardware / owns
Rimowa suitcase
“It's similar, but I bought a Rimowa suitcase this year and I love it. It's just a suitcase, but I love it.”
Public evidence record
David Rosenthal
Host · Acquired
- Claims
- 500
- Episodes
- 21
- Shows
- 1
- Named items
- 38
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
app / uses
Waymo
“Yeah. Scoping just to ride share now that we have Waymo in San Francisco, I use Waymo in scenarios where I would never use an Uber or a Lyft.”
service / uses
Waymo
“Scoping just to ride share now that we have Waymo in San Francisco, I use Waymo in scenarios where I would never use an Uber or a Lyft.”
app / likes
Google Earth
“Yes, Keyhole and Google Earth (I think) is my favorite part of our first Google episode earlier this year.”
app / likes
Craigslist
“I think I talked before on the Meta episode about how much I love Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist before that.”
app / likes
Facebook Marketplace
“I think I talked before on the Meta episode about how much I love Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist before that.”
app / uses
Winamp
“I listen to so much music all the time on Winamp, it should just know what I like and automatically pick the next song.”
hardware / uses
AirPods
“I used AirPods for years and years and they’re great, but if you sleep on your side or do anything you know you got the AirPod jamming into your ears.”
app / avoids
ChatGPT
“Honestly, this is why I don't use ChatGPT for acquired work, I feel like we need to be a hundred percent all the time.”
other / uses
Blackberry movie
“Two on some holiday travel flights, I think recommended by an Acquired listener, actually, I watched the Blackberry movie.”
book / uses
Wool
“I have to give you a big thank you, because over the last couple of weeks since your recommendation, I have read the book Wool, which is the first in the series that is the Silo series on Apple TV+, because I'm more of a book guy than a TV guy.”
other / likes
Nike
“That's why Nike is my favorite episode, because I feel like this way of thinking about what we do finally clicked for me.”
Claim ledger
What David said.
14 transcript-backed records
01 / observation
Jack Dorsey happens to also be on the Disney board at the time. So they basically get all the way to a deal.
“Jack Dorsey happens to also be on the Disney board at the time. So they basically get all the way to a deal.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Acquired
02 / observation
The only way for a company like Disney to hope to try and still be relevant is to go back to making the very best content.
“The only way for a company like Disney to hope to try and still be relevant is to go back to making the very best content.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Acquired
03 / observation
I kinda suspect the way that a relationship between Disney and Nintendo, the only way it could work would be if one of them buys the other.
“I kinda suspect the way that a relationship between Disney and Nintendo, the only way it could work would be if one of them buys the other.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- The Walt Disney Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
04 / observation
Anyway the point is, from 1962 until 1995, if you like James Bond and you wanted to have a little bit of James Bond in your life too, then you wanted to wear a Submariner on your wrist.
“Anyway the point is, from 1962 until 1995, if you like James Bond and you wanted to have a little bit of James Bond in your life too, then you wanted to wear a Submariner on your wrist.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Rolex
- Publisher
- Acquired
05 / observation
The purchase price that Red Bull paid was one British pound to establish Red Bull Racing. Now, the problem is they still got to make the team good.
“The purchase price that Red Bull paid was one British pound to establish Red Bull Racing. Now, the problem is they still got to make the team good.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Formula 1
- Publisher
- Acquired
06 / observation
If you weren’t selling alcohol, which had natural preservatives, the only way that you could buy and consume a drink that really wasn’t water or milk or something was fresh.
“If you weren’t selling alcohol, which had natural preservatives, the only way that you could buy and consume a drink that really wasn’t water or milk or something was fresh.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Coca-Cola
- Publisher
- Acquired
07 / observation
Blue, yellow. The point is, there was no standardization. All of a sudden now, Coke’s got this huge, industrial imagery machine of not only advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post, but all the billboards, the signs, the point of sale merchandise, et cetera.
“Blue, yellow. The point is, there was no standardization. All of a sudden now, Coke’s got this huge, industrial imagery machine of not only advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post, but all the billboards, the signs, the point of sale merchandise, et cetera.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Coca-Cola
- Publisher
- Acquired
08 / observation
Pretty much the only way that all other grocers could deal with COVID was Instacart or doing their own delivery, which Instacart actually powers a lot of now as a white-label service, which is fascinating.
“Pretty much the only way that all other grocers could deal with COVID was Instacart or doing their own delivery, which Instacart actually powers a lot of now as a white-label service, which is fascinating.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Trader Joe’s
- Publisher
- Acquired
09 / observation
The only way that external companies—users, developers, model researchers—could use TPUs would be if Google had a cloud to deliver them.
“The only way that external companies—users, developers, model researchers—could use TPUs would be if Google had a cloud to deliver them.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
10 / observation
The problem is the recommender is trying to figure out what to feed, and it’s only just working off titles and descriptions that people were writing about their own videos.
“The problem is the recommender is trying to figure out what to feed, and it’s only just working off titles and descriptions that people were writing about their own videos.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
11 / observation
Fast forward to today, it’s hard to get real actual apples-to-apples data on Google Workspace versus Microsoft Office users. But basically, the way to think about the market is that Google has the vast majority of users and usage of productivity software, and Microsoft still has the vast majority of dollars.
“Fast forward to today, it’s hard to get real actual apples-to-apples data on Google Workspace versus Microsoft Office users. But basically, the way to think about the market is that Google has the vast majority of users and usage of productivity software, and Microsoft still has the vast majority of dollars.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
- Publisher
- Acquired
12 / observation
The only way you could figure that out is if you somehow went and got a copy of everybody’s phone book, then could backtrace all the links.
“The only way you could figure that out is if you somehow went and got a copy of everybody’s phone book, then could backtrace all the links.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
- Publisher
- Acquired
13 / observation
There’s that famous John Wanamaker quote of, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I just don’t know which half.
“There’s that famous John Wanamaker quote of, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I just don’t know which half.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
- Publisher
- Acquired
14 / observation
As we told the story, they had the better product, they had the better customer offering, they were on the way to winning anyway.
“As we told the story, they had the better product, they had the better customer offering, they were on the way to winning anyway.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Epic Systems (MyChart)
- Publisher
- Acquired