Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
Sun, 29 Sep 2024
Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life… our ...
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprece...
Chase Center + Summer Update
Thu, 08 Aug 2024
Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for ...
Microsoft Volume II
Sun, 21 Jul 2024
In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the ...
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
Mon, 03 Jun 2024
Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. Wi...
Microsoft Volume I
Sun, 21 Apr 2024
Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valua...
Renaissance Technologies
Sun, 17 Mar 2024
Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTe...
Hermès
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
In luxury, there’s Hermès… and there’s everyone else. Stewarded by one French family over six...
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Sun, 21 Jan 2024
Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH t...
Holiday Special 2023
Sun, 17 Dec 2023
Ben has some big news. Actually, double big news! On what has become a holiday tradition here at Acq...
Visa
Sun, 26 Nov 2023
To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of ...
Charlie Munger
Sun, 29 Oct 2023
We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that ...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Sun, 15 Oct 2023
We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts...
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
Tue, 05 Sep 2023
It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia.We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in Apr...
Costco
Sun, 20 Aug 2023
Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch)...
Nike
Mon, 24 Jul 2023
Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day,...
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
Mon, 26 Jun 2023
Nobody’s perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazin...
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Mon, 12 Jun 2023
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the ...
Lockheed Martin
Mon, 29 May 2023
Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Work...
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
Wed, 17 May 2023
We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out...
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
Tue, 25 Apr 2023
We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the ...
Short: The Death of Sega
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
Sega and the Genesis was THE underdog story of the early 90’s. In a single console generation, Seg...
Nintendo: The Console Wars
Tue, 11 Apr 2023
In the 1980’s Nintendo was on top of the world, with the NES achieving over 90% market share of ho...
Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer and his Strategy Capital colleague Chenyi Shi join us again to discu...
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
ACQ Sessions returns with David Senra of the Founders Podcast. David is one of our very favorite peo...
Nintendo's Origins
Wed, 15 Mar 2023
You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn...
LVMH
Tue, 21 Feb 2023
We tell the full history of LVMH, and how Bernard Arnault turned a $15m investment in a bankrupt Fre...
The NFL
Wed, 25 Jan 2023
The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to ex...
Holiday Special 2022
Sun, 18 Dec 2022
Cozy up to the fire and join Acquired as we do our annual strategic review of the show and our busin...
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)
Mon, 05 Dec 2022
Ben Thompson joins Acquired to discuss the business of Stratechery itself and celebrate 10 years (!)...
Enron
Mon, 28 Nov 2022
The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we’ve debated if and how Acquire...
Qualcomm
Mon, 14 Nov 2022
Qualcomm, or “Quality Communications” — despite being one of the largest technology companies ...
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
We sit down with all five current Benchmark GPs for one of their legendary weekly dinners, during wh...
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis
Tue, 04 Oct 2022
We kick off ACQ Sessions with the-behind-the-scenes story of All-in, from the world’s greatest mod...
Benchmark Part I
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
Benchmark Capital. We tell the tale of the legendary equal partnership that accomplished something n...
Amazon Web Services
Mon, 05 Sep 2022
So, how DID an online book retailer end up building the infrastructure layer that powers the entire ...
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
We sit down with legendary investor Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital and his son Andrew who, while le...
Amazon.com
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’...
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
Mon, 01 Aug 2022
This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home ...
Walmart
Mon, 18 Jul 2022
We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, ...
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
Sun, 19 Jun 2022
When Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brent Beshore asked us to give a talk at their incredible Capital Cam...
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
Sun, 05 Jun 2022
We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”...
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
Thu, 19 May 2022
We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time —...
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
Sun, 15 May 2022
For the final act of the Arena Show, we’re joined by Brooks CEO Jim Weber to tell the amazing stor...
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
Thu, 12 May 2022
We did an Arena Show!! This evening was so big and so special, we had to split it into two episodes ...
Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
Wed, 20 Apr 2022
By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company t...
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
Tue, 05 Apr 2022
We sit down once again with one of the world’s very best strategy thinkers, 7 Powers author Hamilt...
Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
Sun, 27 Mar 2022
He wears signature leather jackets. He can bench press more than you. He makes cars that drive thems...
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
Mon, 14 Mar 2022
We hear a lot these days about hedge funds becoming venture firms, and venture firms becoming hedge ...
SONY
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — ...
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and ...
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on ea...
Peloton
Thu, 10 Feb 2022
The Peloton journey has been one seriously wild ride. From can’t raise money to one of Tiger Globa...
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
Sun, 23 Jan 2022
Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s n...
CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
Tue, 21 Dec 2021
Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprin...
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Note: This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021, approximately a year before FTX’s subsequent mel...
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
Tue, 07 Dec 2021
You've heard us talk about him every episode for the past two years... but until now most of you hav...
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
Thu, 02 Dec 2021
When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to...
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
Tue, 02 Nov 2021
Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project epi...
Standard Oil Part II
Mon, 18 Oct 2021
We bring the epic saga of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller to a close (for now) with two of hist...
Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
Tue, 05 Oct 2021
We sit down with the one & only Michael Mauboussin to dive deep into his incredible body of work...
Standard Oil Part I
Tue, 21 Sep 2021
It's time. We dive into the *original* American capitalist mega winner, Standard Oil, and its legend...
TSMC
Mon, 06 Sep 2021
It's time. We dive into the unbelievable history behind the quietest technology giant of them all —...
Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
Sun, 29 Aug 2021
We sit down with the one and only Kevin Rose to talk about his journey from pioneering Web 2.0 with ...
Andreessen Horowitz Part II
Mon, 09 Aug 2021
Alright, backstory's out of the way, and Acquired is rolling three hours deep on the venture firm th...
Andreessen Horowitz Part I
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
We kick off Season 9 with a classic: Part I of the a16z story. How did this brand new venture firm c...
Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
Sun, 18 Jul 2021
We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Y...
Ethereum
Mon, 05 Jul 2021
We close out Season 8 with the most ambitious organization we've ever covered on Acquired: Ethereum,...
Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
Sun, 20 Jun 2021
What do you get when you combine Berkshire Hathaway's approach with early-stage venture capital? Alt...
Berkshire Hathaway Part III
Sun, 06 Jun 2021
It's time. We wrap our Berkshire Hathaway trilogy with Warren and Charlie entering a new era: the ag...
Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
Wed, 26 May 2021
Brad Stone joins us to discuss the making of the modern Amazon, and how it's morphed from the "flywh...
Berkshire Hathaway Part II
Wed, 12 May 2021
In Part II of our Berkshire Hathaway Trilogy (!), we pick up the story with Warren wandering in the ...
Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)
Wed, 05 May 2021
We team up with two of the very best English-language analysts covering China tech today, Rui Ma and...
Berkshire Hathaway Part I
Tue, 20 Apr 2021
It's time. After 150+ episodes on great companies, we tackle the granddaddy of them all — Berkshir...
Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
We dive into the fast-changing world of direct-to-consumer digital health, with perhaps the best per...
Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
Tue, 23 Mar 2021
Last Acquired left the plucky Rec Room crew in our 2018 "Part I" episode, they were a seed stage sta...
Meituan
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
We dive into the history behind Meituan, the juggernaut Chinese "super-app" which dominates China's ...
The New York Times Company
Wed, 17 Feb 2021
For the entire 20th Century, you’d be hard pressed to find a better business than an American news...
Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
Sun, 31 Jan 2021
We cover Sequoia Capital a lot on this show. Not only across our now four(!) dedicated episodes, but...
Bitcoin
Mon, 18 Jan 2021
We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best inve...
Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
Wed, 16 Dec 2020
As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies who often receive the mo...
Airbnb
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
Over 13 years after its founding, one of the defining startup companies of the past decade finally m...
DoorDash
Wed, 09 Dec 2020
Live from the scene of its blockbuster IPO, we recount the crazy, roller coaster journey of this "Pa...
Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
Tue, 01 Dec 2020
Acquired is live on the scene covering Salesforce's blockbuster $27.7B acquisition of Slack, with th...
Virgin Galactic
Sun, 22 Nov 2020
Live from the 2020 ASCEND Space Conference, Acquired covers the full story behind the most "out ther...
Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
Superstar past guest and Superhuman CEO Rahul Vorha joins us for a deep dive on how Superhuman appli...
Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
Wed, 28 Oct 2020
A week before the 2020 US Presidential election, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins us to tell th...
Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
Tue, 06 Oct 2020
On this special episode of Acquired, we're joined by a master interviewer himself, Patrick O'Shaughn...
The NBA
Wed, 30 Sep 2020
On the eve of the 2020 NBA Finals, we dive DEEP into the history and business model of the league be...
Special: Acquired x My First Million
Wed, 09 Sep 2020
Acquired teams up with the My First Million podcast for a “best of both worlds” crossover episod...
Epic Games
Tue, 01 Sep 2020
We go deep behind the "epic" story of a plucky game developer from Cary, North Carolina (by way of P...
Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
Tue, 25 Aug 2020
We're joined by two very special guests, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and her cofounder, spouse and Ev...
Pinduoduo
Thu, 16 Jul 2020
We kick off Season 7 with a bang: Pinduoduo, the incredible five year-old Chinese mashup of "Costco ...
Oprah (Harpo Studios)
Thu, 25 Jun 2020
We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all...
SpaceX
Tue, 26 May 2020
On the eve of SpaceX's historic scheduled launch of its first human spaceflight mission — both the...
Adapting Episode 3: Intel
Mon, 11 May 2020
When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the microprocessor company. Maybe you also thin...
Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
Tue, 28 Apr 2020
We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle...
Podapalooza Announcement: Intel
Tue, 14 Apr 2020
Sponsors:ServiceNow: https://bit.ly/acqsnaiagentsHuntress: https://bit.ly/acqhuntressVanta: https://...
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
Mon, 30 Mar 2020
On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan o...
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
Fri, 20 Mar 2020
The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. Th...
The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
Tue, 17 Mar 2020
5 years and 100+ episodes into Acquired, there’s been one question we get asked more than any othe...
Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
Mon, 17 Feb 2020
The wait is over. Acquired returns with a very special Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined ...
Tue, 28 Jan 2020
We kick off Season 6 with a long-awaited Acquired Classic: Facebook’s $22B purchase of WhatsApp in...
The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
Sun, 29 Dec 2019
Season 5, Episode 10: The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries) Acquired c...
Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
Thu, 19 Dec 2019
Coming to you live from the University of Washington, Ben and David are joined by hundreds of awesom...
TikTok
Sun, 08 Dec 2019
We take Acquired to the Old Town Road to cover the amazing story behind the biggest global sensation...
Disney, Plus
Mon, 25 Nov 2019
The Flywheel is strong with this one. We dive deep into the origins of one of the boldest business s...
The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
Thu, 24 Oct 2019
It’s an IPO, it’s a bailout, it’s an... acquisition? We’re joined by the one and only Dan Pr...
Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Tue, 15 Oct 2019
We’re joined by the legendary Nolan Bushnell, founder not only of Atari, but also the only person ...
Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
Thu, 26 Sep 2019
Acquired dives into the history behind storied venture firm Sequoia Capital and its legendary founde...
Google Maps
Mon, 26 Aug 2019
Ben and David cover the series of three 2004 Google acquisitions that formed the core of Google Maps...
The Shopify IPO
Tue, 06 Aug 2019
Ben and David head north of the border to Ottawa, Canada to cover perhaps one of the greatest IPO su...
Huawei
Mon, 22 Jul 2019
For our first episode of Season 5, Acquired returns to Shenzhen to cover another Chinese technology ...
Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
Thu, 27 Jun 2019
We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Su...
The Slack DPO
Mon, 24 Jun 2019
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an... enterprise software company? We give the full Acquired t...
The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
Zoom board member (and general partner at Emergence Capital) Santi Subotovsky joins us to tell the t...
The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
Mon, 27 May 2019
Acquired looks back at a monumental IPO from a *much* different era: Electronic Arts. We’re joined...
The Uber IPO
Sat, 11 May 2019
Welcome to the big one. On the day of its IPO, we tell the story of Uber. It’s a story whose roots...
The Pinterest IPO
Tue, 23 Apr 2019
In the second episode of our APLUSS(Z!) IPO saga, we dive into the history behind the planet’s lar...
The Lyft IPO
Sat, 30 Mar 2019
Call it the playoffs. Call it the Olympics. Call it March Madness. No matter which sports analogy yo...
Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
Mon, 25 Feb 2019
We enter the wayback machine and revisit the subject of Acquired’s second ever episode, Facebook’...
Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!
Mon, 18 Feb 2019
Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take!We continue to experiment on Acquired, this time with a quick-tak...
Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank
Sun, 03 Feb 2019
We dive into the crazy, little-known story of how this small, former PC-maker in Cambridge, England ...
Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN
Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Booyah! Acquired, the worldwide leader in acquisitions and IPOs, kicks off Season 4 with a classic: ...
Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent
Sun, 16 Dec 2018
We close out Season 3 and our China mini-series with a monster episode on Tencent, the Shenzhen-base...
Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2)
Sun, 25 Nov 2018
We complete our two-part Netflix special with the company’s bold transition to streaming, includin...
Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1)
Sun, 11 Nov 2018
In a world ravaged by late fees and lack of rewinding, one man two men from a sleepy California beac...
Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
Mon, 29 Oct 2018
Ben & David are joined by special guest and Venmo cofounder Andrew Kortina for our first-ever SF...
Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky)
Mon, 01 Oct 2018
Ben and David are joined by Adobe’s Chief Product Officer, Behance founder, Benchmark partner, aut...
Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba
Sun, 23 Sep 2018
We continue our China Tech series with perhaps the most incredible entrepreneurial journey in histor...
Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)
Mon, 10 Sep 2018
In this special episode Ben & David head to Recode’s SF office and sit down in the red chair w...
Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO
Mon, 20 Aug 2018
Ben and David are (almost) live on the scene covering the plucky Southern California “camera compa...
Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO
Sun, 05 Aug 2018
Acquired kicks off our China tech mini-series by teaming up with the best in the business: Hans and ...
Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla
Mon, 16 Jul 2018
Acquired kicks off Season 3 with a gangbuster two-hour extravaganza on America’s most successful a...
Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
Sun, 17 Jun 2018
Acquired wraps up Season 2 with our first “elusive” private-private merger: Rover.com and its 20...
Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub
Tue, 05 Jun 2018
We’re live on the scene the day following the biggest announcement in the open source software wor...
Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint
Mon, 21 May 2018
If you thought the telecom business was boring, think again! Acquired brings you an episode packed w...
Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint
Fri, 04 May 2018
Acquired returns with a classic, delving into Microsoft’s first acquisition ever: Forethought Inc,...
Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing
Thu, 05 Apr 2018
Acquired wraps up a big few weeks of coverage with not an IPO or an M&A or a fundraising round, ...
Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO
Sun, 25 Mar 2018
Acquired is live on the scene following Dropbox’s public market debut. From playing a central role...
Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
Thu, 22 Mar 2018
Acquired dives into the topic on the minds and lips of just about every VC and founder these days: S...
Season 2, Episode 3: Nest
Mon, 19 Feb 2018
Acquired brings it all back home—to the smart home that is—with Google’s 2014 acquisition of N...
Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt
Tue, 06 Feb 2018
We launch mini-series on Acquired with a subject near & dear to our heroes’ hearts: startup fu...
Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin)
Mon, 22 Jan 2018
Former Zappos Chairman & COO (and current Partner at Sequoia Capital) Alfred Lin joins our heroe...
Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special
Mon, 18 Dec 2017
Acquired cozies up to the fire and looks back on the year in tech. How wildly off were we on last ye...
Episode 50: Apple - Beats
Mon, 11 Dec 2017
Acquired crosses the half-century mark with an instant classic: Apple’s 2014 purchase of Beats, it...
Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO
Mon, 04 Dec 2017
Ben and David dive into the most talked-about tech IPO of 4Q 2017: Stitch Fix. After downsizing the ...
Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom
Mon, 20 Nov 2017
Ben & David cover the proposed largest tech M&A deal of all time, and in the process dive in...
Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO
Mon, 06 Nov 2017
Ben & David venture to the land down under (and reunite in-person!) to tell the story of the gra...
Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee
Sat, 07 Oct 2017
Today our heroes cover a deal that might have more impact on life in Silicon Valley than AI, wearabl...
Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
Acquired is back and live on the scene! After months of speculation, Google announces today their ac...
Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
Sun, 17 Sep 2017
On this extra-long episode of Acquired, Brian McCullough from the Internet History Podcast returns t...
Episode 43: The Square IPO
Wed, 16 Aug 2017
Unicorns and ratchets and lawsuits, oh my! Our heroes dive into the history of Jack Dorsey’s famou...
Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster)
Fri, 04 Aug 2017
Acquired dives into the legendary acquisition of Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen’s “second ac...
Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson
Tue, 25 Jul 2017
Acquired trains its lens on the “second or third best acquisition of all-time”, Priceline’s 20...
Episode 40: Activision Blizzard
Wed, 12 Jul 2017
Ben & David cover the creation of the gaming world’s equivalent of the 70’s rock supergroup:...
Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market
Tue, 20 Jun 2017
Ben and David are once again live on the scene, this time covering the biggest disruption in grocery...
"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day
Sun, 11 Jun 2017
Ben and David are guests on Anchor's Podcast of the Day, discussing Acquired's origin story, show st...
Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)
Wed, 31 May 2017
Ben & David revisit the birth of the digital music revolution and Steve Jobs' "digital hub" stra...
Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
Wed, 10 May 2017
Ben and David continue Acquired’s “tech and sports” mini-series with Disney’s 2016 acquisiti...
Episode 36: The LA Clippers
Sun, 23 Apr 2017
In honor of start of NBA playoffs, Ben & David venture off the beaten path to explore one of Ste...
Episode 35: Oculus
Tue, 11 Apr 2017
Ben & David transcend the barriers of “real” reality, and dive into Facebook and Mark Zucker...
Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
Mon, 03 Apr 2017
Ben & David "pour over" the 1992 IPO of the legendary Seattle coffee company with the help of Da...
Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
Mon, 13 Mar 2017
Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!) Ben & David dive deep into the ea...
Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO
Sat, 04 Mar 2017
Snap! Acquired is live on the scene reporting from the "Super Bowl" of 2017 tech events: Snap Inc's ...
Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
Topics covered include:The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies, now...
Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
Tue, 24 Jan 2017
Topics covered include: P.A. Semi’s original moniker ("Palo Alto Semiconductor”) and its celebr...
Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
Wed, 11 Jan 2017
Ben & David wrap up 2016 with a review of the top tech themes we discussed on the show this year...
Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
Sat, 31 Dec 2016
Ben & David welcome very special guest Tom Alberg, board member and first lead investor in Amazo...
Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
Fri, 16 Dec 2016
Topics covered include: Brian’s history working across “both sides of the aisle” as both a st...
Episode 26: Marvel
Mon, 05 Dec 2016
Topics covered include: Marvel’s corporate origins as "Timely Publications”, created in 1939 by...
Episode 25: The Facebook IPO
Fri, 11 Nov 2016
Hey Acquired listeners. A note about this show: we recorded this episode the night before the 2016 E...
Episode 24: Skype
Tue, 01 Nov 2016
An acquisition so wild and crazy, they had to do it again. And again. Ben & David cover tech’s...
Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
Sun, 23 Oct 2016
Ben & David broadcast live from the 2016 GeekWire Summit covering one of the all-time greats, Ap...
Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
Thu, 13 Oct 2016
CFO of Zillow Group Kathleen Philips joins Ben and David to cover the show’s first true “merger”...
Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
Tue, 27 Sep 2016
Ben and David go inside the M&A press with Bloomberg’s technology M&A reporter and host of...
Episode 20: Android
Fri, 16 Sep 2016
Ben & David examine Google’s 2005 purchase of Android for a rumored $50M, undeniably one of th...
Episode 19: Jet
Mon, 29 Aug 2016
Ben & David break down Jet.com’s meteoric rise, culminating in Walmart’s blockbuster $3B+ ac...
Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
Mon, 22 Aug 2016
Ben & David are joined by special guest Taylor Barada, VP and Head of Corporate Development &...
Acquired Episode 17: Waze
Wed, 03 Aug 2016
Topics covered include: Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian San...
Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
Tue, 12 Jul 2016
The meta show: Ben and David turn their gaze inward and examine the podcasting industry through E. W...
Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
Tue, 05 Jul 2016
Ben and David return to make their first foray into enterprise software, covering Salesforce’s $2....
Episode 14: LinkedIn
Thu, 16 Jun 2016
Ben and David cover the 3-day-old acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. They cover...
Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
Sun, 05 Jun 2016
Ben and David are joined by Todd Bishop, technology reporter and co-founder of GeekWire, to discuss ...
Episode 12: Snapchat
Sun, 22 May 2016
Ben and David tackle their first failed acquisition: Facebook's 2013 offer to buy Snapchat. They cov...
Episode 11: PayPal
Sun, 08 May 2016
Ben and David return to technology acquisitions by examining a classic: eBay's 2002 purchase of PayP...
Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
Ben and David deviate entirely from the stated purpose of the show, tackling this non-technology acq...
Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)
Tue, 29 Mar 2016
Ben and David continue the cloud productivity saga with Google Docs. They examine the suite of acqui...
Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)
Mon, 29 Feb 2016
Ben and David have special guest Kurt DelBene on to discuss Microsoft's acquisition of Acompli, Sunr...
Episode 7: YouTube
Wed, 03 Feb 2016
Ben and David test the widely-held belief that YouTube was one of the most successful tech acquisiti...
Episode 6: Lucasfilm
Tue, 19 Jan 2016
Riding closely on the tails of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ben and David cover Disney's 2012 acqui...
Episode 5: Siri
Mon, 14 Dec 2015
In the last episode of 2015, Ben and David discuss Apple's acquisition of Siri. Notable topics inclu...
Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)
Mon, 30 Nov 2015
Ben and David are joined by Former Microsoft VP and Co-Founder of Xbox, Ed Fries, to discuss the Bun...
Episode 3: Twitch
Mon, 16 Nov 2015
Ben and David discuss Amazon's acquisition of Twitch in 2014. Unlike previous episodes, this recent ...
Episode 2: Instagram
Sun, 01 Nov 2015
Ben and David discuss Facebook's acquisition of Instagram in 2012. Was it a success? If so, what are...
Episode 1: Pixar
Thu, 15 Oct 2015
Ben and David discuss Disney's acquisition of Pixar in 2006. Was it a success? If so, what are the c...