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Acquired

by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

216 episodes

Podcast overview

About this podcast

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

Episodes216total
Frequencyabout 1.7 episodes per monthCalculated from 216 episodes published between Oct 2015 and Aug 2026.
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Acquired publishes about 1.7 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

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216 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

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S1 Ep. 35Apr 11, 20171h 16min
Oculus

Ben & David transcend the barriers of “real” reality, and dive into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg’s geek-eutpoia vision of the future of...

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S1 Ep. 34Apr 3, 20171h 10min
The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan

Ben & David "pour over" the 1992 IPO of the legendary Seattle coffee company with the help of Dan Levitan, who served as lead investment...

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S1 Ep. 33Mar 13, 20171h 26min
Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)

Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!) Ben & David dive deep into the early days of internet search, with the help of...

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S1 Ep. 32Mar 4, 20171h 22min
The Snap Inc. IPO

Snap! Acquired is live on the scene reporting from the "Super Bowl" of 2017 tech events: Snap Inc's hugely anticipated (and just plain...

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S1 Ep. 31Mar 1, 20171h 8min
The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

Topics covered include:The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies, nowhere moreso than China Didi CEO Cheng...

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S1 Ep. 30Jan 24, 20171h 8min
P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Topics covered include: P.A. Semi’s original moniker ("Palo Alto Semiconductor”) and its celebrity founder (in the semiconductor world) Dan...

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S1 Ep. 29Jan 11, 20171h 12min
Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

Ben & David wrap up 2016 with a review of the top tech themes we discussed on the show this year, and look forward to which themes we think...

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S1 Ep. 28Dec 31, 20161h 6min
The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

Ben & David welcome very special guest Tom Alberg, board member and first lead investor in Amazon.com, to cover the IPO of "earth’s most...

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S1 Ep. 27Dec 16, 20161h 10min
Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz

Topics covered include: Brian’s history working across “both sides of the aisle” as both a startup founder and corporate development leader...

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S1 Ep. 26Dec 5, 20161h 18min
Marvel

Topics covered include: Marvel’s corporate origins as "Timely Publications”, created in 1939 by pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman in...

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S1 Ep. 25Nov 11, 20161h 21min
The Facebook IPO

Hey Acquired listeners. A note about this show: we recorded this episode the night before the 2016 Election Day in the US. At the time, the...

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S1 Ep. 24Nov 2, 20161h 18min
Skype

An acquisition so wild and crazy, they had to do it again. And again. Ben & David cover tech’s perhaps most-traded asset, Skype (which also...

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S1 Ep. 23Oct 23, 20161h 2min
NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

Ben & David broadcast live from the 2016 GeekWire Summit covering one of the all-time greats, Apple’s 1996 acquisition of NeXT. This...

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S1 Ep. 22Oct 14, 20161h 11min
Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)

CFO of Zillow Group Kathleen Philips joins Ben and David to cover the show’s first true “merger” versus “acquisition" (only took 22...

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S1 Ep. 21Sep 27, 20161h 18min
Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

Ben and David go inside the M&A press with Bloomberg’s technology M&A reporter and host of the Deal of the Week Podcast, Alex Sherman. If...

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S1 Ep. 20Sep 16, 20161h 14min
Android

Ben & David examine Google’s 2005 purchase of Android for a rumored $50M, undeniably one of the best technology acquisitions of all time....

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S1 Ep. 19Aug 29, 20161h 5min
Jet

Ben & David break down Jet.com’s meteoric rise, culminating in Walmart’s blockbuster $3B+ acquisition of the company just two years after...

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S1 Ep. 18Aug 22, 20161h 4min
Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

Ben & David are joined by special guest Taylor Barada, VP and Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Adobe, to discuss...

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S1 Ep. 17Aug 3, 20161h 0min
Waze

Topics covered include: Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian Sanders, along with their podcast...

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S1 Ep. 16Jul 12, 201655 min
Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

The meta show: Ben and David turn their gaze inward and examine the podcasting industry through E. W. Scripps’ recent acquisitions of the...

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