Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpecial: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
Season 8
We dive into the fast-changing world of direct-to-consumer digital health, with perhaps the best person in the world: Levels founder Josh Clemente. (…
5 years, 6 months ago
Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
Season 8 Episode 4
Last Acquired left the plucky Rec Room crew in our 2018 "Part I" episode, they were a seed stage startup making a VR game that users loved but grew s…
5 years, 6 months ago
Meituan
Season 8 Episode 3
We dive into the history behind Meituan, the juggernaut Chinese "super-app" which dominates China's services economy, offering consumers everything f…
5 years, 7 months ago
The New York Times Company
Season 8 Episode 2
For the entire 20th Century, you’d be hard pressed to find a better business than an American newspaper — Warren Buffett famously described them as “…
5 years, 8 months ago
Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
Season 8
We cover Sequoia Capital a lot on this show. Not only across our now four(!) dedicated episodes, but across a stunning nearly 50% of recent season co…
5 years, 8 months ago
Bitcoin
Season 8 Episode 1
We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best investment of all-time and our biggest episode ever: …
5 years, 9 months ago
Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
Season 7
As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies who often receive the most media attention (see Airbnb and DoorDash). But…
5 years, 10 months ago
Airbnb
Season 7 Episode 8
Over 13 years after its founding, one of the defining startup companies of the past decade finally makes its public debut — and boy was it a big one.…
5 years, 10 months ago
DoorDash
Season 7 Episode 7
Live from the scene of its blockbuster IPO, we recount the crazy, roller coaster journey of this "Palo Alto delivery company". From Sand Hill darling…
5 years, 10 months ago
Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
Season 7
Acquired is live on the scene covering Salesforce's blockbuster $27.7B acquisition of Slack, with the help of the internet's #1 Slack bull (and top i…
5 years, 10 months ago