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Acquired
Every company has a story. Acquired goes behind the scenes of the biggest tech IPOs and acquisitions of all time.
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Episodes
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Superhuman Ceo Rahul Vohra
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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
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Replay: Sequoia Capital
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Amazon Web Services
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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value
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Amazon.com
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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
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Walmart
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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
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American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
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Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
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Y Combinator with Anu Hariharan... at the Arena Show!
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Packy + Mario @ Acquired Arena Show!
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Nvidia: the Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
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Arena Show Announcement (!!) Seattle, May 4th 2022
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Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
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Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
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SONY
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Aid for Ukraine (with Anatoly from Solana and Sergey from Everstake)
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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
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Peloton
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Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
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FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
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7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
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Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
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Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
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Standard Oil Part II
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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
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Standard Oil Part I
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TSMC
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Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
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Andreessen Horowitz Part II
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Andreessen Horowitz Part I
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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
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Ethereum
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Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
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Berkshire Hathaway Part III
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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
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Berkshire Hathaway Part II
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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)
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Berkshire Hathaway Part I
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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
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Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
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Meituan
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The New York Times Company
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Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
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Bitcoin
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Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
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Airbnb
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DoorDash
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Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
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Virgin Galactic
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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
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Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
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The NBA
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Special: Acquired x My First Million
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Epic Games
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Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
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Pinduoduo
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LP Show Preview: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark
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Oprah (Harpo Studios)
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SpaceX
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Adapting Episode 3: Intel
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Acquired Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
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Podapalooza Announcement: Intel
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Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
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Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
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The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
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Announcement: Acquired worldwide Zoom Meetup *this Thursday*
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LP Show Preview: Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster)
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Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
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WhatsApp
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The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
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TikTok
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Disney, Plus
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Seattle Live Show Announcement: Convoy!
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LP Show Preview: Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark
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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
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Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
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Sequoia Capital, Don Valentine
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San Francisco Meetup Announcement!
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Google Maps
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DoorDash + Caviar Quick Take + SXSW live show voting!
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The Shopify IPO
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Huawei
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The Slack DPO
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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
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The Uber IPO
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The Pinterest IPO
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The Lyft IPO
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LP sneak peek: How to build a successful SaaS company (with Jake Saper, Partner at Emergence Capital)
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Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
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Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!
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Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank
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Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN
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Season 4 Trailer (and 2019 predictions!)
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Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent
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LP Show Preview: Product-Market Fit
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Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)
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Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)
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Acquied Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
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SF Live Show Announcement: Venmo!
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Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)
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Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba
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Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)
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Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO
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Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO
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Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla
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Season 3 Trailer
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Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
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Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub
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Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint
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Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint
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Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing
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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO
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Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
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Season 2, Episode 3: Nest
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Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt
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Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)
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Announcement: San Francisco Happy Hour
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Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special
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Episode 50: Apple - Beats
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Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO
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Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom
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Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO
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Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee
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Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
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Episode 43: The Square IPO
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Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)
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Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson
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Episode 40: Activision Blizzard
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Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market
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"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day
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Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)
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Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
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Episode 36: The LA Clippers
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Episode 35: Oculus
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Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
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Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
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Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO
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Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
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Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
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Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
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Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
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Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
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Episode 26: Marvel
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Episode 25: The Facebook IPO
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Episode 24: Skype
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Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
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Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
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Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
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Episode 20: Android
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Episode 19: Jet
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Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
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Acquired Episode 17: Waze
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Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
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Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
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Episode 14: LinkedIn
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Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
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Episode 12: Snapchat
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Episode 11: PayPal
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Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America
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Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)
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Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)
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Episode 7: YouTube
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Episode 6: Lucasfilm
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Episode 5: Siri
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Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)
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Episode 3: Twitch
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Episode 2: Instagram
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Episode 1: Pixar
