Podcast Episodes

Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

Season 5 Episode 9

Coming to you live from the University of Washington, Ben and David are joined by hundreds of awesome Seattle listeners (and a few non-Seattle listen…

6 years, 10 months ago

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TikTok

Season 5 Episode 8

We take Acquired to the Old Town Road to cover the amazing story behind the biggest global sensation of 2019 — and the highest valued private startup…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Disney, Plus

Season 5 Episode 7

The Flywheel is strong with this one. We dive deep into the origins of one of the boldest business strategy decisions of our time: Disney CEO Bob Ige…

6 years, 10 months ago

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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)

Season 5 Episode 6

It’s an IPO, it’s a bailout, it’s an... acquisition? We’re joined by the one and only Dan Primack from Axios to recount the epic saga of the We Compa…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

Season 5 Episode 5

We’re joined by the legendary Nolan Bushnell, founder not only of Atari, but also the only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, the recipient of Sequoia C…

7 years ago

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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…

7 years ago

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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…

7 years, 1 month ago

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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 …

7 years, 2 months ago

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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…

7 years, 2 months ago

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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…

7 years, 3 months ago

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