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Acquired
Hosted by Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal
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Smash Notes has 100 notes from 5 episodes of Acquired, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Business, Investing, Tech News.
Every company has a story. Acquired goes behind the scenes of the biggest tech IPOs and acquisitions of all time.
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SeinfeldSeinfeld, which ended three decades ago, has been watched by 72 million Americans so far THIS YEAR. Behind that incredible stat is an equally incredible business story: obsessive… -
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The Home DepotThe Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got fired, went broke, and stacked empty paint cans ten feet high to look legitimate. After being… -
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Disney: The Renaissance and the EmpireIn 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while… -
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Superhuman Ceo Rahul VohraPlease take the 2019 Acquired Survey. It takes 5-10 minutes, helps us immensely, and you may win a pair of new AirPods or a free 1-year subscription to the LP show!… -
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178 more episodes without notes
- Replay: Sequoia Capital
- Amazon Web Services
- Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value
- Amazon.com
- From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
- Walmart
- The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
- American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
- Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
- Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
- Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
- Y Combinator with Anu Hariharan... at the Arena Show!
- Packy + Mario @ Acquired Arena Show!
- Nvidia: the Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
- Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
- Arena Show Announcement (!!) Seattle, May 4th 2022
- Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
- Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
- SONY
- Aid for Ukraine (with Anatoly from Solana and Sergey from Everstake)
- Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
- The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
- Peloton
- Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
- CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
- FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
- 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
- Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
- Standard Oil Part II
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
- Standard Oil Part I
- TSMC
- Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
- Andreessen Horowitz Part II
- Andreessen Horowitz Part I
- Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
- Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
- Ethereum
- Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
- Berkshire Hathaway Part III
- Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
- Berkshire Hathaway Part II
- Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)
- Berkshire Hathaway Part I
- Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
- Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
- Meituan
- The New York Times Company
- Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
- Bitcoin
- Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
- Airbnb
- DoorDash
- Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
- Virgin Galactic
- Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
- Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
- Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
- The NBA
- Special: Acquired x My First Million
- Epic Games
- Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
- Pinduoduo
- LP Show Preview: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark
- Oprah (Harpo Studios)
- SpaceX
- Adapting Episode 3: Intel
- Acquired Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
- Podapalooza Announcement: Intel
- Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
- Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
- The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
- Announcement: Acquired worldwide Zoom Meetup *this Thursday*
- LP Show Preview: Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster)
- Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
- The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
- Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
- TikTok
- Disney, Plus
- Seattle Live Show Announcement: Convoy!
- LP Show Preview: Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark
- The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
- Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
- Sequoia Capital, Don Valentine
- San Francisco Meetup Announcement!
- Google Maps
- DoorDash + Caviar Quick Take + SXSW live show voting!
- The Shopify IPO
- Huawei
- The Slack DPO
- The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
- The Uber IPO
- The Pinterest IPO
- The Lyft IPO
- LP sneak peek: How to build a successful SaaS company (with Jake Saper, Partner at Emergence Capital)
- Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
- Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!
- Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank
- Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN
- Season 4 Trailer (and 2019 predictions!)
- Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent
- LP Show Preview: Product-Market Fit
- Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)
- Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)
- Acquied Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
- SF Live Show Announcement: Venmo!
- Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)
- Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba
- Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)
- Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO
- Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO
- Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla
- Season 3 Trailer
- Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
- Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub
- Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint
- Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint
- Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing
- Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO
- Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
- Season 2, Episode 3: Nest
- Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt
- Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)
- Announcement: San Francisco Happy Hour
- Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special
- Episode 50: Apple - Beats
- Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO
- Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom
- Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO
- Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee
- Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
- Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
- Episode 43: The Square IPO
- Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)
- Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson
- Episode 40: Activision Blizzard
- Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market
- "About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day
- Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)
- Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
- Episode 36: The LA Clippers
- Episode 35: Oculus
- Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
- Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
- Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO
- Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
- Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
- Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
- Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
- Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
- Episode 26: Marvel
- Episode 25: The Facebook IPO
- Episode 24: Skype
- Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
- Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
- Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
- Episode 20: Android
- Episode 19: Jet
- Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
- Acquired Episode 17: Waze
- Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
- Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
- Episode 14: LinkedIn
- Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
- Episode 12: Snapchat
- Episode 11: PayPal
- Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America
- Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)
- Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)
- Episode 7: YouTube
- Episode 6: Lucasfilm
- Episode 5: Siri
- Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)
- Episode 3: Twitch
- Episode 2: Instagram
- Episode 1: Pixar
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