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Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
Season 5 Episode 4
Acquired dives into the history behind storied venture firm Sequoia Capital and its legendary founder, Don Valentine. Part 1 tells Don’s story, start…
6 years, 6 months ago
Google Maps
Season 5 Episode 3
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 Technologi…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Shopify IPO
Season 5 Episode 2
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, Shopify. From …
6 years, 8 months ago
Huawei
Season 5 Episode 1
For our first episode of Season 5, Acquired returns to Shenzhen to cover another Chinese technology giant, this one slightly... different from our pa…
6 years, 8 months ago
Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
Season 4 Episode 10
We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Superhuman, the red hot email productivity app whic…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Slack DPO
Season 4 Episode 9
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 most extreme…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
Season 4 Episode 8
Zoom board member (and general partner at Emergence Capital) Santi Subotovsky joins us to tell the true underdog story behind the hottest IPO of 2019…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
Season 4 Episode 7
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 incredibl…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Uber IPO
Season 4 Episode 6
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 reverbera…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Pinterest IPO
Season 4 Episode 5
In the second episode of our APLUSS(Z!) IPO saga, we dive into the history behind the planet’s largest non-social social network, Pinterest. From The…
6 years, 11 months ago