Podcast Episodes

The Snap Inc. IPO

Season 1 Episode 32

Snap! Acquired is live on the scene reporting from the "Super Bowl" of 2017 tech events: Snap Inc's hugely anticipated (and just plain huge) IPO. Wha…

9 years, 7 months ago

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The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

Season 1 Episode 31

Topics covered include:

The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies, nowhere moreso than China Didi CEO Cheng Wei and inv…

9 years, 7 months ago

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P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

Season 1 Episode 30

Topics covered include: 

P.A. Semi’s original moniker ("Palo Alto Semiconductor”) and its celebrity founder (in the semiconductor world) Dan Dobberpuh…

9 years, 8 months ago

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Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

Season 1 Episode 29

Ben & David wrap up 2016 with a review of the top tech themes we discussed on the show this year, and look forward to which themes we think will be r…

9 years, 9 months ago

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The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

Season 1 Episode 28

Ben & David welcome very special guest Tom Alberg, board member and first lead investor in Amazon.com, to cover the IPO of "earth’s most customer-cen…

9 years, 9 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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