Adapting Episode 3: Intel
When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the microprocessor company. Maybe you also think about about 'Intel Inside' and their famous jingle. You might even think "big, stable, boring publ...
12 Mai 20201h 26min
Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
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 independent m...
29 Apr 20201h 39min
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
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 about you...
31 Mar 202044min
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
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 compan...
20 Mar 202049min
The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
5 years and 100+ episodes into Acquired, there’s been one question we get asked more than any other: what are the best acquisitions of all-time, and what can we learn from them? We thought it was time...
17 Mar 20201h 51min
Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
The wait is over. Acquired returns with a very special Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined by the very best person in the world to help us tell it - Doug Leone. Since 1996, Doug has served as...
18 Feb 20201h 7min
We kick off Season 6 with a long-awaited Acquired Classic: Facebook’s $22B purchase of WhatsApp in 2014, which still ranks as the largest acquisition of a private VC-backed startup in history. Yet des...
29 Jan 20201h 53min
The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
Season 5, Episode 10: The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries) Acquired closes out Season 5 and 2019 with a radical look into both the past and future decades of startup comp...
30 Des 20191h 26min
