Acquired

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Episodes

Total: 202

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an... enterprise software company? We give the full Acquired treatme

Zoom board member (and general partner at Emergence Capital) Santi Subotovsky joins us to tell the t

Acquired looks back at a monumental IPO from a *much* different era: Electronic Arts. We’re joined b

Welcome to the big one. On the day of its IPO, we tell the story of Uber. It’s a story whose roots s

In the second episode of our APLUSS(Z!) IPO saga, we dive into the history behind the planet’s large

Call it the playoffs. Call it the Olympics. Call it March Madness. No matter which sports analogy yo

We enter the wayback machine and revisit the subject of Acquired’s second ever episode, Facebook’s b

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We dive into the crazy, little-known story of how this small, former PC-maker in Cambridge, England

Booyah! Acquired, the worldwide leader in acquisitions and IPOs, kicks off Season 4 with a classic:

We close out Season 3 and our China mini-series with a monster episode on Tencent, the Shenzhen-base

We complete our two-part Netflix special with the company’s bold transition to streaming, including

In a world ravaged by late fees and lack of rewinding, one man two men from a sleepy California beac

Ben & David are joined by special guest and Venmo cofounder Andrew Kortina for our first-ever SF

Ben and David are joined by Adobe’s Chief Product Officer, Behance founder, Benchmark partner, autho

We continue our China Tech series with perhaps the most incredible entrepreneurial journey in histor

In this special episode Ben & David head to Recode’s SF office and sit down in the red chair wit

Ben and David are (almost) live on the scene covering the plucky Southern California “camera company

Acquired kicks off our China tech mini-series by teaming up with the best in the business: Hans and

Acquired kicks off Season 3 with a gangbuster two-hour extravaganza on America’s most successful aut