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Visa from 2023-11-26T16:24:25

To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that matter, who started it? Who runs and governs it...

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Charlie Munger from 2023-10-29T18:49:26

We sit down with the legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated longform podcast interview that he has done in his 99 years on Earth. We’ve gotten to have some special conversations on Acqui...

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang from 2023-10-15T20:09:44

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought we knew everything but — unsurprisingly ...

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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) from 2023-09-05T23:47:30

It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia.

We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up: Jensen & crew had set out on an amazing journey ...

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Costco from 2023-08-20T21:46:51

Costco is not only Charlie Munger’s favorite company of all time (plus he’s on the board, natch), it’s an absolutely fascinating study in how seemingly opposite characteristics can combine to cr...

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Nike from 2023-07-24T21:15:18

Nike — it’s perhaps the most iconic and most prolific brand of the modern era. On any given day, swooshes adorn the feet of more people on earth than any other footwear company — by a long shot....

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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) from 2023-06-26T21:10:27

Nobody’s perfect — including Porsche. Despite that phrase appearing in their famous 1983 magazine advertisement, they managed to get damn-close to the perfect luxury business (even Bernard Arnau...

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi from 2023-06-12T19:35:07

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped by the Acquired studio for an Eats delivery, so we broke out the cameras and asked him to hang out for a wide-ranging conversation. :) We talk about his 20 yea...

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Lockheed Martin from 2023-05-29T22:02:40

Today we bring you two absolutely incredible stories. The first is Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division — the elite team of aviation geniuses who produced some of the greatest airplanes in ...

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek from 2023-05-17T17:32:18

We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out the video version of this episode — which plays natively on Spotify!). This was an incredibly s...

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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming from 2023-04-25T23:45:10

We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business models. T...

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Short: The Death of Sega from 2023-04-17T21:17:18

Sega and the Genesis was THE underdog story of the early 90’s. In a single console generation, Sega went from ~zero to 50% US market share and dethroned Nintendo’s seemingly invincible global mo...

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Nintendo: The Console Wars from 2023-04-11T01:12:54

In the 1980’s Nintendo was on top of the world, with the NES achieving over 90% market share of home video games globally. So how did they fall ALL the way down to ~10% in just a few short conso...

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer&Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business from 2023-04-03T21:19:31

7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer and his Strategy Capital colleague Chenyi Shi join us again to discuss their latest research on a topic that’s highly relevant to the recent Acquired canon: how t...

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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) from 2023-03-29T07:00

ACQ Sessions returns with David Senra of the Founders Podcast. David is one of our very favorite people in the world — it’s impossible to spend an hour (or 3!) with him and not come away inspire...

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Nintendo's Origins from 2023-03-15T19:46:59

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started r...

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LVMH from 2023-02-21T05:16:53

We tell the full history of LVMH, and how Bernard Arnault turned a $15m investment in a bankrupt French textile company into the world’s largest individual fortune. It’s a story that’s equal par...

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The NFL from 2023-01-25T06:46:21

The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to explore the nation’s development over the last 100 years, from WWII to TV and suburbs to the Interne...

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Holiday Special 2022 from 2022-12-18T23:22:28

Cozy up to the fire and join Acquired as we do our annual strategic review of the show and our business “in public”. We recap our perspectives on Acquired’s big moments from the past year, a bit...

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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) from 2022-12-05T19:16:57

Ben Thompson joins Acquired to discuss the business of Stratechery itself and celebrate 10 years (!) of the internet’s best strategy analysis destination. Even beyond Stratechery’s enormous impa...

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Enron from 2022-11-28T20:32:01

The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we’ve debated if and how Acquired could uniquely add to the conversation. Then we realized there was an angle so perfect that we...

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Qualcomm from 2022-11-14T21:36:32

Qualcomm, or “Quality Communications” — despite being one of the largest technology companies in the world, few people know the absolutely amazing technological and business history behind it. S...

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Benchmark Part II: The Dinner from 2022-10-17T02:43:10

We sit down with all five current Benchmark GPs for one of their legendary weekly dinners, during which we ask all of the unresolved burning questions from Part 1. How do THEY think about Benchm...

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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis from 2022-10-04T03:30:32

We kick off ACQ Sessions with the-behind-the-scenes story of All-in, from the world’s greatest moderator himself Jason Calacanis. ACQ Sessions is our new, occasional “MTV Unplugged” version of A...

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Benchmark Part I from 2022-09-27T18:30:29

Benchmark Capital. We tell the tale of the legendary equal partnership that accomplished something no other venture firm can claim: twice it has produced the highest returning fund of its cycle,...

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Amazon Web Services from 2022-09-05T20:33:46

So, how DID an online book retailer end up building the infrastructure layer that powers the entire internet? (Or at least 39% of it, per latest market share data.) While many myths, le...

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Howard Marks&Andrew Marks: Something of Value from 2022-08-29T17:00:08

We sit down with legendary investor Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital and his son Andrew who, while less-well-known, is also an incredibly accomplished investor in a very different arena: early-st...

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Amazon.com from 2022-08-16T01:26:01

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’ve waited seven years to do this episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook an...

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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) from 2022-08-01T17:35:11

This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home state of Ohio!), Republican House Representative Anthony Gonzalez. Anthony serves on the House Fin...

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Walmart from 2022-07-18T20:54:19

We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its heritage runs th...

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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories from 2022-06-19T19:09:33

When Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brent Beshore asked us to give a talk at their incredible Capital Camp conference, we knew we had to bring something special. So we spent months combing through th...

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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan&Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) from 2022-05-19T00:42:11

We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time — Zoom and Veeva Systems — to understand how they grew to billions of dollars in revenue (and t...

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Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) from 2022-05-15T18:34:44

For the final act of the Arena Show, we’re joined by Brooks CEO Jim Weber to tell the amazing story of how he transformed the company from a 3rd tier, deeply cashflow negative “also-ran” into on...

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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity from 2022-05-12T00:47:16

We did an Arena Show!! This evening was so big and so special, we had to split it into two episodes for the podcast feed. First up is the Idea Dinner with our best internet buddies, Packy McCorm...

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Y Combinator with Anu Hariharan... at the Arena Show! from 2022-04-27T23:32:21

Announcing our final guest for the Arena Show… YC's Anu Hariharan! Amazingly, we’ve never covered Y Combinator itself before on Acquired. That's about to change. :) We'll tell the story of YC Co...

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Packy + Mario @ Acquired Arena Show! from 2022-04-21T19:05:34

For our next Arena Show guest announcement... we have not one, but TWO heavyweights of internet business culture. That's right, live and for one night only, the supergroup of li...

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Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) from 2022-04-20T10:48:30

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into buil...

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Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) from 2022-04-20T03:48:30

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into buil...

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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) from 2022-04-06T05:46:55

We sit down once again with one of the world’s very best strategy thinkers, 7 Powers author Hamilton Helmer — this time joined by his impressive Strategy Capital colleague Chenyi Shi — to discus...

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Arena Show Announcement (!!) Seattle, May 4th 2022 from 2022-04-04T04:32:32

Yes, you heard that right — we are doing a live show, IN AN ARENA!!

Thanks to our friends at PitchBook Data, we have Seattle's brand new Climate Pledge Arena the evening of May 4th, 2022....

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Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) from 2022-03-28T05:09:56

He wears signature leather jackets. He can bench press more than you. He makes cars that drive themselves. He’s cheated death — both corporate and personal — too many times to count, and he runs...

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Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) from 2022-03-15T05:47:19

We hear a lot these days about hedge funds becoming venture firms, and venture firms becoming hedge funds. But a decade before either of those approaches became mainstream, a tiny $3m fund in Bo...

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SONY from 2022-03-07T10:47:25

Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — Sony rose to capture the imaginations (and wallets) of consumers and engineers around the world. T...

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Aid for Ukraine (with Anatoly from Solana and Sergey from Everstake) from 2022-02-28T22:12:45

Like so many, we’ve been both heartbroken and inspired by what’s happening Ukraine. Our friends at Solana and FTX are announcing today that they’ve helped Eversta...

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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) from 2022-02-22T03:15:11

We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — to talk about the process of adapting Mike Issac’s story of Uber, “Super ...

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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) from 2022-02-15T01:45:12

We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on each of the Web 1, 2 and 3 eras: Brave Browser CEO (and former Netscape + Mozilla Chief Architect)...

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Peloton from 2022-02-10T18:02:33

The Peloton journey has been one seriously wild ride. From can’t raise money to one of Tiger Global’s first venture investments, to pandemic darling to the stock being down 85% in 6 months... th...

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Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) from 2022-01-23T16:00

Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation by nearly every metric (it’s not even close!), with the re-recording of her original albums she’s in the process of reshaping the...

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CAA (with Michael Ovitz) from 2021-12-21T20:13:09

Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint for A16Z’s upending of Silicon Valley a generation later, Michael Ovitz and his “Dream Factory...

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FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried&Mario Gabriele) from 2021-12-15T03:21:46

We tell the definitive (audio!) story behind FTX's "speed run" — how this upstart crypto exchange became the fastest company in history to reach a $25B valuation, just two years after founding. ...

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7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer from 2021-12-08T05:46:20

You've heard us talk about him every episode for the past two years... but until now most of you have never actually heard us talk to him! To celebrate the LP Show going public...

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Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) from 2021-12-03T03:03:08

When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to be organizations? How high is the ceiling on one person + the internet? Acquired has the answers ...

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Complexity Investing&Semiconductors (with NZS Capital) from 2021-11-03T01:25:18

Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project episode with Brinton Johns and Jon Bathgate of NZS Capital laying out the state of the semiconduc...

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Standard Oil Part II from 2021-10-18T20:28:06

We bring the epic saga of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller to a close (for now) with two of history's greatest second acts: Rockefeller's pioneering of modern philanthropy (and really modern...

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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More from 2021-10-05T14:20:27

We sit down with the one & only Michael Mauboussin to dive deep into his incredible body of work: untangling skill and luck, measuring moats, persistence of returns in venture capital, decision ...

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Standard Oil Part I from 2021-09-22T01:37:51

It's time. We dive into the *original* American capitalist mega winner, Standard Oil, and its legendary founder John D. Rockefeller. This company and man almost defy characterization -- Elon, Be...

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TSMC from 2021-09-07T01:23:06

It's time. We dive into the unbelievable history behind the quietest technology giant of them all — and as of recording the world's 9th (!) most valuable company — the Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf...

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Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3 from 2021-08-30T04:16:21

We sit down with the one and only Kevin Rose to talk about his journey from pioneering Web 2.0 with Digg to leading the charge on Web3 and NFT + DeFi investing as a partner at True Ventures and ...

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Andreessen Horowitz Part II from 2021-08-10T01:42:36

Alright, backstory's out of the way, and Acquired is rolling three hours deep on the venture firm that changed the game for everyone — a16z.

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Andreessen Horowitz Part I from 2021-07-27T01:45:29

We kick off Season 9 with a classic: Part I of the a16z story. How did this brand new venture firm charge out of the gates in 2009, going from zero to disrupting t...

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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko) from 2021-07-19T04:51:24

We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko. If you listened to our Ethereum episode or follow crypto even at a cursory l...

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Ethereum from 2021-07-06T05:57:44

We close out Season 8 with the most ambitious organization we've ever covered on Acquired: Ethereum, and it's celebrity wunderkind founder Vitalik Buterin. If you thought Mark Zuckerberg IPO-ing...

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Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC from 2021-06-21T02:06:02

What do you get when you combine Berkshire Hathaway's approach with early-stage venture capital? Altos Ventures. We're joined by Altos's wonderful Ho Nam to discuss their highly unusual approach...

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Berkshire Hathaway Part III from 2021-06-07T04:14

It's time. We wrap our Berkshire Hathaway trilogy with Warren and Charlie entering a new era: the age of the internet. Can they and Berkshire adapt to this brave new world? We find out. And, aft...

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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone) from 2021-05-27T04:02:57

Brad Stone joins us to discuss the making of the modern Amazon, and how it's morphed from the "flywheel company" of The Everything Store into a set of interlocking and self-reinforcing businesse...

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Berkshire Hathaway Part II from 2021-05-12T15:51:09

In Part II of our Berkshire Hathaway Trilogy (!), we pick up the story with Warren wandering in the woods of Omaha, searching for his life's next chapter after retiring from the professional inv...

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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China) from 2021-05-05T19:53

We team up with two of the very best English-language analysts covering China tech today, Rui Ma and Ying Lu from the Tech Buzz China podcast, to talk about the big trends happening on the groun...

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Berkshire Hathaway Part I from 2021-04-21T02:02:32

It's time. After 150+ episodes on great companies, we tackle the granddaddy of them all — Berkshire Hathaway. One episode alone isn't nearly enough to do Warren and Poor Charlie justice, so toda...

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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente) from 2021-04-06T03:57:07

We dive into the fast-changing world of direct-to-consumer digital health, with perhaps the best person in the world: Levels founder Josh Clemente. (Shoutout to Ben Grynol and Michael Mizrahi fr...

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Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt) from 2021-03-24T05:08:35

Last Acquired left the plucky Rec Room crew in our 2018 "Part I" episode, they were a seed stage startup making a VR game that users loved but grew slowly and barely monetized. Fast forward to t...

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Meituan from 2021-03-10T23:09:05

We dive into the history behind Meituan, the juggernaut Chinese "super-app" which dominates China's services economy, offering consumers everything from food delivery, restaurant reviews, travel...

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The New York Times Company from 2021-02-18T05:52:02

For the entire 20th Century, you’d be hard pressed to find a better business than an American newspaper — Warren Buffett famously described them as “franchises” — and no American newspaper stood...

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Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin) from 2021-02-01T01:49:01

We cover Sequoia Capital a lot on this show. Not only across our now four(!) dedicated episodes, but across a stunning nearly 50% of recent season companies where Sequoia was a primary or only i...

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DoorDash + Caviar Quick Take + SXSW live show voting! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We’re joined by former Caviar executive Nick Adler for a quick-take on the big news last week in the battle for US food delivery supremacy, DoorDash’s acquisition of Caviar (which was previously ow...

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Bitcoin from 2021-01-19T02:15:21

We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best investment of all-time and our biggest episode ever: Bitcoin. From the first bitcoin tran...

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Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers from 2020-12-17T06:08:13

As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies who often receive the most media attention (see Airbnb and DoorDash). But today's episode is a little different. In ou...

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Airbnb from 2020-12-11T06:14:31

Over 13 years after its founding, one of the defining startup companies of the past decade finally makes its public debut — and boy was it a big one. But for all the hype (and all the legitimate...

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DoorDash from 2020-12-10T05:56:57

Live from the scene of its blockbuster IPO, we recount the crazy, roller coaster journey of this "Palo Alto delivery company". From Sand Hill darling during their Series A and B fundraises to al...

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Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring from 2020-12-02T05:47:36

Acquired is live on the scene covering Salesforce's blockbuster $27.7B acquisition of Slack, with the help of the internet's #1 Slack bull (and top internet analyst in his own right), Packy McCo...

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Virgin Galactic from 2020-11-23T06:26:51

Live from the 2020 ASCEND Space Conference, Acquired covers the full story behind the most "out there" technology story of the past few years: Virgin Galactic. How did this space tourism company...

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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) from 2020-11-12T15:18:26

Superstar past guest and Superhuman CEO Rahul Vorha joins us for a deep dive on how Superhuman applies concepts from game design to building productivity software. We're not talking points and b...

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Twitter (with Dick Costolo) from 2020-10-28T16:28:49

A week before the 2020 US Presidential election, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins us to tell the story of a company that has impacted all of our lives (political and otherwise) like none ot...

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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired from 2020-10-07T02:49:25

On this special episode of Acquired, we're joined by a master interviewer himself, Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like the Best. We turn the tables and cover the most fascinating story he's n...

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The NBA from 2020-09-30T23:38:31

On the eve of the 2020 NBA Finals, we dive DEEP into the history and business model of the league behind the world's 2nd largest and fastest growing major sport. How did the NBA grow from merely...

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Special: Acquired x My First Million from 2020-09-09T16:01:59

Acquired teams up with the My First Million podcast for a “best of both worlds” crossover episode. First we go deep, “Acquired style”, on the wild story of MFM host Shaan Puri’s bought, sold, an...

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Epic Games from 2020-09-02T01:41:27

We go deep behind the "epic" story of a plucky game developer from Cary, North Carolina (by way of Potomac, Maryland) which, after bootstrapping for its first 22 years, has quietly morphed into ...

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Eventbrite (with Julia&Kevin Hartz) from 2020-08-25T23:35:53

We're joined by two very special guests, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and her cofounder, spouse and Eventbrite Chairman Kevin Hartz, to tell their story of building Eventbrite together (along with...

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Pinduoduo from 2020-07-16T19:51:06

We kick off Season 7 with a bang: Pinduoduo,...

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LP Show Preview: Consumer Investing Master Class with Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark from 2020-07-07T03:38:51

On this preview of our most recent LP Show episode, Benchmark General Partner Sarah Tavel joins us for a master class on consumer investing. We start with why invest in consumer at all (given the i...

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Oprah (Harpo Studios) from 2020-06-25T15:50:54

We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all-time: Oprah Winfrey, and her juggernaut conglomerate Harpo Studios. Born to a poor single mot...

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SpaceX from 2020-05-26T14:07

On the eve of SpaceX's historic scheduled launch of its first human spaceflight mission — both the first ever by a private company, and the first to take place on American soil in nearly a decad...

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Adapting Episode 3: Intel from 2020-05-12T01:00:51

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Special Episode: Jason Calacanis from 2020-04-29T03:41:44

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Special Episode: Jason Calacanis from 2020-04-28T20:41:44

We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle Jason's journey from a kid porter in the barrooms of Brooklyn to building the largest indepen...

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Podapalooza Announcement: Intel from 2020-04-15T04:30:33

Missing Acquired? We are too. But the world's not done adapting just yet, and neither are we. So get ready for (in the immortal words of Sammy Hagar) the best of both worlds: an Acquired + Adapt...

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Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha) from 2020-03-31T04:14:03

On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020’. The memo minces no words, admonishing founders & CEOs to “question every assumption abo...

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Adapting Episode 1: Canlis from 2020-03-20T14:59:33

The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn’t need stories of M&A and IPOs right now. But it does still need stories of great ...

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The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time from 2020-03-17T17:16:26

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LP Show Preview: Remote Work, No-Code, and Products that Sell Themselves (w/ Zapier CEO Wade Foster) from 2020-03-05T15:06:12

Zapier pioneered remote work. And helped to create the "no code" movement. Hear their story.

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Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone) from 2020-02-18T05:50:01

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WhatsApp from 2020-01-29T04:48:30

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The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries) from 2019-12-30T05:11:41

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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis) from 2019-12-19T14:34:12

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TikTok from 2019-12-09T05:54:05

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Disney, Plus from 2019-11-25T14:37:23

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Seattle Live Show Announcement: Convoy! from 2019-11-18T01:43:22

We're loading up the Acquired live experience and trucking north (for David at least) for our first independent live show in Seattle! Hot on the heels of the company's recent $400m fundraise at ...

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LP Show Preview: Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark from 2019-11-11T16:01:51

On this episode of the Limited Partner bonus show, we are joined by Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner on Benchmark, talking his investment philosophies, enterprise technology trends, and the uniqu...

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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack) from 2019-10-25T02:02:30

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Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell) from 2019-10-15T14:40:07

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Sequoia Capital (Part 1) from 2019-09-26T14:58:22

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San Francisco Meetup Announcement! from 2019-09-13T16:03:57

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Google Maps from 2019-08-26T13:46:54

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The Shopify IPO from 2019-08-06T17:27:52

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Huawei from 2019-07-22T15:04:04

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Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra) from 2019-06-27T15:20:40

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The Slack DPO from 2019-06-25T03:59:05

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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky) from 2019-06-19T02:19:36

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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins) from 2019-05-27T17:25:56

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The Uber IPO from 2019-05-11T20:27:39

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The Pinterest IPO from 2019-04-24T01:04:46

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The Lyft IPO from 2019-03-30T23:32:45

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LP sneak peek: How to build a successful SaaS company (with Jake Saper, Partner at Emergence Capital) from 2019-03-06T15:30:37

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Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White) from 2019-02-26T03:28:52

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Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details! from 2019-02-19T02:26:46

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Season 4, Episode 2: ARM&SoftBank from 2019-02-03T23:55:34

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Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN from 2019-01-21T18:21:43

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Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent from 2018-12-17T04:52:13

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LP Show Preview: Product-Market Fit from 2018-12-10T06:03:41

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Season 3, Episode 9: Netflix (Part 2) from 2018-11-25T20:24:30

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Season 3, Episode 8: Netflix (Part 1) from 2018-11-12T03:50:18

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Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina) from 2018-10-29T16:42:16

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Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina) from 2018-10-29T16:42:16

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Season 3, Episode 6: Behance (with Scott Belsky) from 2018-10-02T04:46:20

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Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba from 2018-09-24T01:28:55

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Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher) from 2018-09-11T04:07:20

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Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO from 2018-08-20T16:20:37

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Season 3, Episode 2: The Xiaomi IPO from 2018-08-06T01:15:03

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Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla from 2018-07-17T04:40:56

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Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly) from 2018-06-18T03:03:59

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Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub from 2018-06-06T05:52:05

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Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint from 2018-05-21T14:34:11

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Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint from 2018-05-04T14:39:35

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Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing from 2018-04-06T05:31

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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO from 2018-03-26T04:49:07

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Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund from 2018-03-23T03:28:02

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Season 2, Episode 3: Nest from 2018-02-20T03:59:27

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Season 2, Episode 2: Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt from 2018-02-07T02:59:24

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Season 2, Episode 1: Zappos (with Alfred Lin) from 2018-01-23T03:46:42

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Episode 51: 2017 Holiday Special from 2017-12-18T14:50:52

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Episode 50: Apple - Beats from 2017-12-11T15:13:49

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Episode 49: The Stitch Fix IPO from 2017-12-04T14:39:37

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Episode 48: Qualcomm - Broadcom from 2017-11-20T14:54:59

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Episode 47: The Atlassian IPO from 2017-11-07T00:30:05

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Episode 46: Blue Bottle Coffee from 2017-10-08T03:16:21

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Episode 45: HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile from 2017-09-21T14:23:18

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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast) from 2017-09-18T01:13:53

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Episode 43: The Square IPO from 2017-08-16T21:59:53

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Episode 42: Opsware (with special guest Michel Feaster) from 2017-08-05T00:33:28

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Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter&Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson from 2017-07-26T04:25:31

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Episode 40: Activision Blizzard from 2017-07-13T00:54:09

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Acquired Episode 39: Whole Foods Market from 2017-06-21T00:03:39

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"About Acquired" on the Anchor Podcast of the Day from 2017-06-11T20:33:08

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Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes) from 2017-05-31T14:19:39

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Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of” from 2017-05-10T15:41:48

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Episode 36: The LA Clippers from 2017-04-24T06:30:20

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Episode 35: Oculus from 2017-04-11T21:58:06

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Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan from 2017-04-03T16:28:46

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Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!) from 2017-03-13T16:33

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Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO from 2017-03-04T11:25:03

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Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts&The Everything Store from 2017-03-01T07:45:29

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Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec from 2017-01-24T14:39:34

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Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions from 2017-01-11T14:58:51

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Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg from 2016-12-31T13:08:19

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Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz from 2016-12-16T14:56:53

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Episode 26: Marvel from 2016-12-05T23:16:34

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Episode 25: The Facebook IPO from 2016-11-11T19:35:36

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Episode 24: Skype from 2016-11-02T05:28:38

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Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit) from 2016-10-23T15:33:35

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Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips) from 2016-10-14T00:23:42

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Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman from 2016-09-27T21:33:55

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Episode 20: Android from 2016-09-16T13:10:52

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Episode 19: Jet from 2016-08-29T13:00:55

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Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe from 2016-08-22T12:48:13

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Acquired Episode 17: Waze from 2016-08-03T22:57:49

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Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps) from 2016-07-12T13:37:37

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Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey from 2016-07-05T15:49:38

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Episode 14: LinkedIn from 2016-06-16T21:11:47

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Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop from 2016-06-06T06:19:56

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Episode 12: Snapchat from 2016-05-23T01:06:53

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Episode 11: PayPal from 2016-05-09T04:55:44

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Acquired Episode 10: Virgin America from 2016-04-27T05:47:22

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Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs) from 2016-03-29T16:00

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Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene) from 2016-02-29T17:00

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Episode 7: YouTube from 2016-02-03T17:00

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Episode 6: Lucasfilm from 2016-01-19T17:00

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Episode 5: Siri from 2015-12-14T17:00

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Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries) from 2015-11-30T17:00

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Episode 3: Twitch from 2015-11-16T17:00

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Episode 2: Instagram from 2015-11-01T17:00

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Episode 1: Pixar from 2015-10-15T16:00

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