Podcast Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 51
Acquired cozies up to the fire and looks back on the year in tech. How wildly off were we on last year’s predictions? What does the next year have in…
8 years, 10 months ago
Apple - Beats
Season 1 Episode 50
Acquired crosses the half-century mark with an instant classic: Apple’s 2014 purchase of Beats, its largest acquisition ever. If you knew Beats as ju…
8 years, 10 months ago
The Stitch Fix IPO
Season 1 Episode 49
Ben and David dive into the most talked-about tech IPO of 4Q 2017: Stitch Fix. After downsizing the offering and pricing below the range, does this s…
8 years, 10 months ago
Qualcomm - Broadcom
Season 1 Episode 48
Ben & David cover the proposed largest tech M&A deal of all time, and in the process dive into the evolving dynamics of the industry that started eve…
8 years, 10 months ago
The Atlassian IPO
Season 1 Episode 47
Ben & David venture to the land down under (and reunite in-person!) to tell the story of the granddaddy of all bootstrapped tech success stories, col…
8 years, 11 months ago
Blue Bottle Coffee
Season 1 Episode 46
Today our heroes cover a deal that might have more impact on life in Silicon Valley than AI, wearables and AR/VR combined… Nestle’s acquisition of Bl…
9 years ago
HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
Season 1 Episode 45
Acquired is back and live on the scene! After months of speculation, Google announces today their acquisition (err, "Cooperation Agreement”) of a lar…
9 years ago
AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
Season 1 Episode 44
On this extra-long episode of Acquired, Brian McCullough from the Internet History Podcast returns to discuss perhaps the most (in)famous merger of a…
9 years, 1 month ago
The Square IPO
Season 1 Episode 43
Unicorns and ratchets and lawsuits, oh my! Our heroes dive into the history of Jack Dorsey’s famous “other” company, Square. Was the Square IPO a can…
9 years, 2 months ago
Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
Season 1 Episode 42
Acquired dives into the legendary acquisition of Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen’s “second act” software company Opsware, from a perspective never bef…
9 years, 2 months ago