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Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
Season 1 Episode 27
Topics covered include:
Brian’s history working across “both sides of the aisle” as both a startup founder and corporate development leader at a big …9 years, 3 months ago
Episode 26: Marvel
Season 1 Episode 26
Topics covered include:
Marvel’s corporate origins as "Timely Publications”, created in 1939 by pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman in NYC, with t…9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 25: The Facebook IPO
Season 1 Episode 25
Hey Acquired listeners. A note about this show: we recorded this episode the night before the 2016 Election Day in the US. At the time, the biggest c…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 24: Skype
Season 1 Episode 24
An acquisition so wild and crazy, they had to do it again. And again. Ben & David cover tech’s perhaps most-traded asset, Skype (which also happens t…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
Season 1 Episode 23
Ben & David broadcast live from the 2016 GeekWire Summit covering one of the all-time greats, Apple’s 1996 acquisition of NeXT. This episode has it a…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
Season 1 Episode 22
CFO of Zillow Group Kathleen Philips joins Ben and David to cover the show’s first true “merger” versus “acquisition" (only took 22 episodes!), Zillo…
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
Season 1 Episode 21
Ben and David go inside the M&A press with Bloomberg’s technology M&A reporter and host of the Deal of the Week Podcast, Alex Sherman. If you’ve ever…
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 20: Android
Season 1 Episode 20
Ben & David examine Google’s 2005 purchase of Android for a rumored $50M, undeniably one of the best technology acquisitions of all time. But will it…
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 19: Jet
Season 1 Episode 19
Ben & David break down Jet.com’s meteoric rise, culminating in Walmart’s blockbuster $3B+ acquisition of the company just two years after its foundin…
9 years, 7 months ago
Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
Season 1 Episode 18
Ben & David are joined by special guest Taylor Barada, VP and Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Adobe, to discuss how large t…
9 years, 7 months ago