Podcast Episodes

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…

7 years, 3 months ago

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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…

7 years, 4 months ago

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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…

7 years, 4 months ago

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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…

7 years, 5 months ago

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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…

7 years, 5 months ago

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The Lyft IPO

Season 4 Episode 4

Call it the playoffs. Call it the Olympics. Call it March Madness. No matter which sports analogy you borrow, it falls short of capturing what Lyft's…

7 years, 6 months ago

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Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

Season 4 Episode 3

We enter the wayback machine and revisit the subject of Acquired’s second ever episode, Facebook’s bombshell 2012 acquisition of Instagram — this tim…

7 years, 7 months ago

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Special: Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!

Season 4 Episode 3

Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take!

We continue to experiment on Acquired, this time with a quick-take on Spotify’s bombshell dual-acquisition of Anch…

7 years, 8 months ago

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ARM & SoftBank

Season 4 Episode 2

We dive into the crazy, little-known story of how this small, former PC-maker in Cambridge, England dethroned Intel, saved Apple from bankruptcy, bec…

7 years, 8 months ago

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ESPN

Season 4 Episode 1

Booyah! Acquired, the worldwide leader in acquisitions and IPOs, kicks off Season 4 with a classic: ESPN. How did a failed former TV weatherman end u…

7 years, 9 months ago

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