The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
5 years and 100+ episodes into Acquired, there’s been one question we get asked more than any other: what are the best acquisitions of...
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Episodes
Latest firstSequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
The wait is over. Acquired returns with a very special Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined by the very best person in the world to...
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The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
Season 5, Episode 10: The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries) Acquired closes out Season 5 and 2019 with a...
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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
Coming to you live from the University of Washington, Ben and David are joined by hundreds of awesome Seattle listeners (and a few...
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Disney, Plus
The Flywheel is strong with this one. We dive deep into the origins of one of the boldest business strategy decisions of our time: Disney...
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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
It’s an IPO, it’s a bailout, it’s an... acquisition? We’re joined by the one and only Dan Primack from Axios to recount the epic saga of...
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Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
We’re joined by the legendary Nolan Bushnell, founder not only of Atari, but also the only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, the recipient of...
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Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
Acquired dives into the history behind storied venture firm Sequoia Capital and its legendary founder, Don Valentine. Part 1 tells Don’s...
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Google Maps
Ben and David cover the series of three 2004 Google acquisitions that formed the core of Google Maps as we know and love it today: Where 2...
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The Shopify IPO
Ben and David head north of the border to Ottawa, Canada to cover perhaps one of the greatest IPO success stories of the past 5 years,...
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Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Superhuman, the red hot email...
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The Slack DPO
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an... enterprise software company? We give the full Acquired treatment to newly-public Slack, one of the...
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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
Zoom board member (and general partner at Emergence Capital) Santi Subotovsky joins us to tell the true underdog story behind the hottest...
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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
Acquired looks back at a monumental IPO from a *much* different era: Electronic Arts. We’re joined by EA’s founder Trip Hawkins to tell the...
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The Uber IPO
Welcome to the big one. On the day of its IPO, we tell the story of Uber. It’s a story whose roots stretch back 130 years, but whose impact...
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The Pinterest IPO
In the second episode of our APLUSS(Z!) IPO saga, we dive into the history behind the planet’s largest non-social social network,...
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The Lyft IPO
Call it the playoffs. Call it the Olympics. Call it March Madness. No matter which sports analogy you borrow, it falls short of capturing...
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