Ben Gilbert

Totally surreal to wake up and see your 9-year passion project on the front of the @WSJ. Thanks @bzcohen, for really capturing the essence of @AcquiredFM. wsj.com/business/media…

@jeiting So awesome.

we're seeing it too

Engineering is so cool.

@christinacaci @GitHubCopilot @Samsara @pinpointhq Funny, I was looking through some old Acquired episodes yesterday and heard myself say, "if you want to join Vanta's 2000 customers". (8x ago!) Congrats on a crazy few years :)

The throughline across 16,000 Vanta customers: AI is raising the stakes for trust, and the companies that build trust grow faster. Finally, anything worth doing takes a village: thank you to our customers, past and present, for being demanding in the best ways. Without your time and feedback, we wouldn't have this opportunity. Thank you to Vanta’ns, past and present, for trusting us with your time and careers. It remains the privilege of my career to hold a megaphone to your work.

It took us two years to grow from $10 mm to $100 mm in Annual Recurring Revenue and 15 months to reach $200 mm. Nine months later, we crossed $300 mm. Vanta’s growth rate increased each of the past four quarters – compounding really is the eighth wonder of the world! “But wait,” you might be thinking. “How does a software company founded before 2022 *increase* its growth rate?” Narrative violation!

AI leaders need to talk more about the incredible positive upside of AI, not the conflated downsides (yes, I'm looking at you Dario). $GOOGL $NVDA THANK YOU to Google's Amin Vahdat and Jeff Dean for their inspiring visions on what AI will enable. The video clip below is a MUST WATCH. Also: “No matter what, it’s going to take a lot of compute” It would be the dumbest thing ever to overregulate and cripple AI progress based on false, misleading AI doomer narratives.

@ben8128 Congrats on the launch! Pumped to listen :)

The Grid: The Largest Machine Ever Built - now live in all podcast apps! stepchange.show/grid The grid powers everything around you. And it is in crisis. We cannot build AI, decarbonize our economy, or deliver affordable electricity if we don’t rebuild. And yet, the largest machine humankind has ever made is a miracle. For nearly a century, electricity got cheaper every decade and the grid became so reliable that we stopped thinking about it altogether. This machine was not designed; it accumulated through a century and a half of decisions with unforeseen consequences. And now we are demanding that this aging, fragmented system grow faster than it has in generations. To understand the struggle and opportunity of this moment, we have to understand how the grid came to be. It is an epic story of inventors and electrocutions, of a man who brought power to the masses and then lost everything, of an America that built massive new industries to win wars, of regulatory ambition and regulatory failure, of catastrophic blackouts, and of a trillion-dollar energy transition we are living through right now. Thank you to @CrusoeAI, our presenting sponsor. This is the fourth episode of @stepchange_vc where we explore the technologies and systems that have transformed human civilization. Hosted by me and @anayshah.

I could listen to @JeffDean tell engineering stories all day. Jeff and Amin on the history of TPUs and AI at Google: youtu.be/BpnJYJmbXcM

@exec_sum @stevesi Cisco too.

BREAKING: Intel ($INTC) shares have officially recovered all losses from the 2000 dot-com bubble burst

Ferrari's entire business strategy on one slide.

@grinich @bcherny @GarrettLord @AcquiredFM @djrosent @WorkOS Total blast tonight. Thanks for doing it with us. You and the @WorkOS team know how to curate a great set of folks!

ACQUIRED Unplugged with @bcherny and @GarrettLord 🚀

The reveal at 0:24 is hilarious. "Yeah we put a backseat in this one." Also, hot.

In your podcast players now!

Tomorrow.

"Acquired" podcast hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal spent hundreds of hours studying Ferrari and the company's strategy of tantalizing exclusivity. on.wsj.com/4dLn5TP

@auren I started crying. Totally unexpected. Just so proud of what the whole NASA team pulled off.

@gilbert welcome home hits when you remember how far they went

There's no more beautiful sight. Welcome home!!!

@grinich Oh it's in the spreadsheet for sure.

@gilbert nasa episode when? 🤩

Well, cat's out of the bag on our next episode :)

@DannieHerz @djrosent Thanks, Dannie!!

congrats to @djrosent & @gilbert, two of the best humans, who have taken their authentic passion and channeled it into a beloved media outlet and a killer business.

@grinich @AcquiredFM Thanks, Michael!

@AcquiredFM beautiful!

Today, we're unveiling the all-new acquired.fm. It's been 8 months in the works, hand-crafted to represent what Acquired has become today. Enjoy :)

@ScottDorsey @AcquiredFM It's canonical!!

@AcquiredFM @gilbert Congrats guys - and thanks for keeping our ExactTarget episode, ha!