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Acquired

Acquired

Business

by Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.

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Episodes (212)

1

Formula 1

Mar 2, 20264h 29m
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The NFL

Jan 27, 20264h 17m
2

Rolex

Jan 3, 20264h 59m
4

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Dec 15, 20252h 47m
3

Coca-Cola

Nov 24, 20254h 4m
2

Trader Joe’s

Oct 27, 20253h 28m
1

Google: The AI Company

Oct 6, 20254h 6m
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Acquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)

Oct 1, 20251m
4

Alphabet Inc.

Aug 26, 20254h 11m
3

The Jamie Dimon Interview

Jul 16, 20251h 8m
2

Google: The Origin of Search

Jun 30, 20253h 37m
1

The Steve Ballmer Interview

Jun 2, 20252h 57m
4

Epic Systems (MyChart)

Apr 21, 20253h 55m
3

Indian Premier League Cricket

Mar 24, 20254h 26m
1

TSMC Founder Morris Chang

Jan 27, 20252h 56m
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TSMC (Remastered)

Jan 21, 20252h 29m
4

Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Dec 16, 20243h 52m
3

IKEA

Nov 18, 20243h 21m
2

Meta

Oct 28, 20246h 19m
1

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

Sep 30, 20242h 25m
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The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Sep 18, 20241h 29m
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Chase Center + Summer Update

Aug 8, 202421m
6

Microsoft Volume II

Jul 22, 20244h 50m
5

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

Jun 4, 20243h 14m
4

Microsoft Volume I

Apr 22, 20244h 24m
3

Renaissance Technologies

Mar 18, 20243h 8m
2

Hermès

Feb 20, 20244h 9m
1

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

Jan 22, 20243h 44m
5

Holiday Special 2023

Dec 18, 20232h 18m
4

Visa

Nov 27, 20233h 44m
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Charlie Munger

Oct 30, 20231h 6m
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Oct 16, 20231h 31m
3

Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

Sep 6, 20232h 55m
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Nike

Jul 25, 20234h 2m
6

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)

Jun 27, 20233h 23m
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Jun 13, 20231h 38m
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Lockheed Martin

May 30, 20233h 39m
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

May 18, 20231h 39m
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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

Apr 26, 20232h 17m
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Short: The Death of Sega

Apr 18, 20231h 9m
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Nintendo: The Console Wars

Apr 11, 20233h 19m
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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Apr 4, 20231h 31m
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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

Mar 29, 20233h 20m
3

Nintendo's Origins

Mar 16, 20233h 27m
2

LVMH

Feb 21, 20233h 33m
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Holiday Special 2022

Dec 19, 20222h 21m
8

Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

Dec 6, 20221h 56m
7

Enron

Nov 29, 20223h 34m
6

Qualcomm

Nov 15, 20222h 28m
5

Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

Oct 17, 20222h 1m
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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

Oct 4, 20222h 19m
4

Benchmark Part I

Sep 28, 20223h 44m
3

Amazon Web Services

Sep 6, 20222h 45m
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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Aug 30, 20221h 31m
2

Amazon.com

Aug 16, 20224h 18m
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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

Aug 2, 20221h 57m
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Walmart

Jul 19, 20223h 1m
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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories

Jun 20, 20221h 5m
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American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

Jun 6, 20221h 19m
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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

May 19, 20221h 8m
8

Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)

May 16, 20221h 12m
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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity

May 12, 20221h 28m
6

Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

Apr 20, 20222h 13m
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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

Apr 6, 20221h 24m
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Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

Mar 28, 20222h 1m
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Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)

Mar 15, 20221h 54m
3

SONY

Mar 7, 20223h 3m
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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Feb 22, 20221h 4m
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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

Feb 15, 20221h 43m
2

Peloton

Feb 10, 20222h 20m
1

Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

Jan 23, 20222h 39m
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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Dec 21, 20211h 52m
7

FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

Dec 15, 20211h 36m
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7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer

Dec 8, 20211h 4m
6

Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

Dec 3, 20212h 47m
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Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)

Nov 3, 20211h 44m
5

Standard Oil Part II

Oct 18, 20212h 23m
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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More

Oct 5, 20211h 25m
4

Standard Oil Part I

Sep 22, 20212h 14m
3

TSMC

Sep 7, 20212h 35m
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Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

Aug 30, 20211h 41m
2

Andreessen Horowitz Part II

Aug 10, 20212h 55m
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Andreessen Horowitz Part I

Jul 27, 20212h 7m
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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

Jul 19, 20211h 14m
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Ethereum

Jul 6, 20213h 4m
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Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC

Jun 21, 20211h 52m
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Berkshire Hathaway Part III

Jun 7, 20212h 58m
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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

May 27, 20211h 19m
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Berkshire Hathaway Part II

May 12, 20213h 3m
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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)

May 5, 20211h 21m
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Berkshire Hathaway Part I

Apr 21, 20213h 12m
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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)

Apr 6, 20211h 28m
4

Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)

Mar 24, 20211h 58m
3

Meituan

Mar 10, 20212h 23m
2

The New York Times Company

Feb 18, 20213h 9m
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Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)

Feb 1, 202158m
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Bitcoin

Jan 19, 20213h 14m
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Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

Dec 17, 20201h 51m
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Airbnb

Dec 11, 20202h 40m
7

DoorDash

Dec 10, 20203h 0m
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Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring

Dec 2, 20201h 32m
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Virgin Galactic

Nov 23, 20201h 49m
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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)

Nov 12, 202057m
5

Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

Oct 28, 20201h 25m
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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

Oct 7, 20201h 50m
4

The NBA

Sep 30, 20202h 47m
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Special: Acquired x My First Million

Sep 9, 20201h 36m
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Epic Games

Sep 2, 20202h 29m
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Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)

Aug 25, 20201h 34m
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Pinduoduo

Jul 16, 20201h 55m
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Oprah (Harpo Studios)

Jun 25, 20202h 14m
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SpaceX

May 26, 20202h 46m
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Adapting Episode 3: Intel

May 12, 20201h 26m
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Special Episode: Jason Calacanis

Apr 29, 20201h 38m
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Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)

Mar 31, 202044m
4

Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

Mar 20, 202049m
3

The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

Mar 17, 20201h 51m
2

Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)

Feb 18, 20201h 7m
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WhatsApp

Jan 29, 20201h 53m
10

The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)

Dec 30, 20191h 26m
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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

Dec 19, 20191h 41m
8

TikTok

Dec 9, 20191h 43m
7

Disney, Plus

Nov 25, 20192h 18m
6

The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)

Oct 25, 20191h 40m
5

Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

Oct 15, 20191h 42m
4

Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

Sep 26, 20191h 53m
3

Google Maps

Aug 26, 20191h 42m
2

The Shopify IPO

Aug 6, 20191h 32m
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Huawei

Jul 22, 20191h 9m
10

Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)

Jun 27, 20191h 22m
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The Slack DPO

Jun 25, 20192h 0m
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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)

Jun 19, 20191h 23m
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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)

May 27, 20192h 5m
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The Uber IPO

May 11, 20192h 26m
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The Pinterest IPO

Apr 24, 20191h 44m
4

The Lyft IPO

Mar 30, 20192h 22m
3

Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

Feb 26, 20191h 17m
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Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!

Feb 19, 201940m
2

Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank

Feb 3, 20191h 29m
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Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN

Jan 21, 20191h 28m
10

Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent

Dec 17, 20181h 55m
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Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)

Nov 25, 20181h 31m
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Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)

Nov 12, 20181h 32m
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Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)

Oct 29, 20181h 15m
6

Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)

Oct 2, 20181h 17m
5

Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba

Sep 24, 20181h 40m
4

Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)

Sep 11, 20181h 29m
3

Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO

Aug 20, 20181h 41m
2

Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO

Aug 6, 20181h 20m
1

Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla

Jul 17, 20182h 5m
10

Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)

Jun 18, 20181h 13m
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Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub

Jun 6, 20181h 30m
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Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint

May 21, 20181h 27m
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Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint

May 4, 20181h 21m
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Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing

Apr 6, 20181h 51m
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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO

Mar 26, 20181h 44m
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Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

Mar 23, 20181h 34m
3

Season 2, Episode 3: Nest

Feb 20, 20181h 39m
2

Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt

Feb 7, 20181h 21m
1

Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)

Jan 23, 20181h 19m
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Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special

Dec 18, 20171h 23m
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Episode 50: Apple - Beats

Dec 11, 20171h 20m
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Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO

Dec 4, 20171h 18m
48

Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom

Nov 20, 201758m
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Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO

Nov 7, 20171h 12m
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Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee

Oct 8, 20171h 9m
45

Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile

Sep 21, 20171h 26m
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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

Sep 18, 20171h 48m
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Episode 43: The Square IPO

Aug 16, 20171h 22m
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Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)

Aug 5, 20171h 20m
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Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson

Jul 26, 20171h 21m
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Episode 40: Activision Blizzard

Jul 13, 20171h 18m
39

Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market

Jun 21, 20171h 19m
38

Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)

May 31, 20171h 22m
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Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”

May 10, 20171h 22m
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Episode 36: The LA Clippers

Apr 24, 20171h 12m
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Episode 35: Oculus

Apr 11, 20171h 24m
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Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan

Apr 3, 20171h 19m
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Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)

Mar 13, 20171h 34m
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Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO

Mar 4, 20171h 30m
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Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

Mar 1, 20171h 17m
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Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Jan 24, 20171h 16m
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Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

Jan 11, 20171h 20m
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Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

Dec 31, 20161h 15m
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Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz

Dec 16, 20161h 19m
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Episode 26: Marvel

Dec 5, 20161h 27m
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Episode 25: The Facebook IPO

Nov 11, 20161h 29m
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Episode 24: Skype

Nov 2, 20161h 27m
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Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

Oct 23, 20161h 11m
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Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)

Oct 14, 20161h 19m
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Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

Sep 27, 20161h 26m
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Episode 20: Android

Sep 16, 20161h 22m
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Episode 19: Jet

Aug 29, 20161h 13m
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Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

Aug 22, 20161h 12m
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Acquired Episode 17: Waze

Aug 3, 20161h 9m
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Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

Jul 12, 20161h 4m
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Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

Jul 5, 20161h 17m
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Episode 14: LinkedIn

Jun 16, 20161h 9m
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Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop

Jun 6, 20161h 5m
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Episode 12: Snapchat

May 23, 20161h 4m
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Episode 11: PayPal

May 9, 20161h 0m
10

Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America

Apr 27, 201657m
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Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)

Mar 29, 201651m
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Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)

Feb 29, 20161h 4m
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Episode 7: YouTube

Feb 3, 201653m
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Episode 6: Lucasfilm

Jan 19, 201642m
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Episode 5: Siri

Dec 14, 201546m
4

Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)

Nov 30, 20151h 9m
3

Episode 3: Twitch

Nov 16, 201555m
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Episode 2: Instagram

Nov 1, 201544m
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Episode 1: Pixar

Oct 15, 201540m
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Trailer: What is Acquired?

Oct 1, 20152m