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.
11 transcript-backed records
01 / recommendation
It's about Walt the person. Highly recommend going to see it next time you are in San Francisco.
“It's about Walt the person. Highly recommend going to see it next time you are in San Francisco.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- The Walt Disney Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
02 / recommendation
Well, first off, we owe a huge thank you to Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, who are the sports editors over at The Wall Street Journal, and just recently published, I think the best business history book of Formula 1 called The Formula.
“Well, first off, we owe a huge thank you to Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, who are the sports editors over at The Wall Street Journal, and just recently published, I think the best business history book of Formula 1 called The Formula.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Formula 1
- Publisher
- Acquired
03 / recommendation
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.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Acquired
04 / recommendation
Avoids AI note taking.
“Everything needs to pass through multiple cycles of source material through my brain, through my fingers, onto a keyboard, and recycle back through about three times. I don't use AI note taking.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Acquired
05 / recommendation
Avoids AI note taking.
“I don't use AI note taking. I write physical notes and hard copy books. If I am not doing that, I feel like it's not going to work.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Acquired
06 / recommendation
I will offer to you to also invest in this buyout at book value. So I will give you the valuation that it is on the books at Rexall, even though I'm buying it at $10,000 above book.
“I will offer to you to also invest in this buyout at book value. So I will give you the valuation that it is on the books at Rexall, even though I'm buying it at $10,000 above book.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Trader Joe’s
- Publisher
- Acquired
07 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of 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.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
08 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of 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.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
- Publisher
- Acquired
09 / recommendation
Likes Google Earth.
“Yes, Keyhole and Google Earth (I think) is my favorite part of our first Google episode earlier this year.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
- Publisher
- Acquired
10 / recommendation
We talked about this a little already, but I would say until the IPL auction innovation, what was generally regarded as the most effective way to deal with this is a hard salary cap.
“We talked about this a little already, but I would say until the IPL auction innovation, what was generally regarded as the most effective way to deal with this is a hard salary cap.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Indian Premier League Cricket
- Publisher
- Acquired
11 / recommendation
You can even start unprofitable with your prices in the early days in a given node generation, because the goal is to crowd out the competition, become the industry dominant number one player, get all the customers.
“You can even start unprofitable with your prices in the early days in a given node generation, because the goal is to crowd out the competition, become the industry dominant number one player, get all the customers.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- TSMC Founder Morris Chang
- Publisher
- Acquired