India, April 7 -- A four-hour twenty-eight minute podcast on the IPL[1]? On a US tech-business platform? Pass, maybe? Except this is 'Acquired' amongst the top three tech podcasts on Apple and Spotify about "stories and strategies" of great companies. Like Visa, Ikea, Costco, Hermes among others.

But what could Acquired's hosts, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, former venture-capitalists now full-time podcasters, say about the IPL for that long? Yes, we know its "fastest growing, most dynamic and most disruptive force in the sports industry today." But then the corker, "it might just be on track to surpass the NFL as the world's most valuable sports league." Okay now, cool those jets. One step at a time, please.

At the outset, Acquired ...