Episode 37: BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
Ben and David continue Acquired’s “tech and sports” mini-series with Disney’s 2016 acquisition of a minority stake (with the right to purchase a majority stake at a later date) in BAMTech, the interne...
10 Maj 20171h 22min
Episode 36: The LA Clippers
In honor of start of NBA playoffs, Ben & David venture off the beaten path to explore one of Steve Ballmer’s most famous acquisitions, his 2014 purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise. Was ...
24 Apr 20171h 12min
Episode 35: Oculus
Ben & David transcend the barriers of “real” reality, and dive into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg’s geek-eutpoia vision of the future of gaming, social, and maybe even the entire internet: strapping go...
11 Apr 20171h 24min
Episode 34: The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
Ben & David "pour over" the 1992 IPO of the legendary Seattle coffee company with the help of Dan Levitan, who served as lead investment banker on the IPO and who would later co-found the venture capi...
3 Apr 20171h 19min
Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!) Ben & David dive deep into the early days of internet search, with the help of the best in the internet history business: Brian McCullough ...
13 Mars 20171h 34min
Episode 32: The Snap Inc. IPO
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. What does the future hold for this plucky “camera comp...
4 Mars 20171h 30min
Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
Topics covered include:The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies, nowhere moreso than China Didi CEO Cheng Wei and investor Wang Gang’s backgrounds at Alibaba, first ent...
1 Mars 20171h 17min
Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
Topics covered include: P.A. Semi’s original moniker ("Palo Alto Semiconductor”) and its celebrity founder (in the semiconductor world) Dan DobberpuhlHistory of the back and forth tradeoffs between In...
24 Jan 20171h 16min
