Acquired - A Podcast About Technology Acquisitions & IPOs
We tell the stories behind the deals. What lessons do they hold for where tech is heading, and why? We dive in.
- Website
- http://www.acquired.fm/
- Description
- We tell the stories behind the deals. What lessons do they hold for where tech is heading, and why? We dive in.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-16 08:12
- last episode published
- 2024-12-15 17:57
- publication frequency
- 10.4 days
- Contributors
- Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- Author
- Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 323
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Investing Technology Business
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-15 | M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Double Mint, Ben’s Rice, Pedigree, Whiskas, VCA, Banfield… all the brands you know, owned by the company you know nothing about: Mars, Incorporated. And Mars itself is 100% owned and deeply intertwined with the Mars fami... |
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| 2024-11-17 | IKEA may be the most singular company we’ve ever studied on Acquired. They’re a globally scaled, $50B annual revenue company with no direct competitors — yet have only ~5% market share. They’re one of the largest retailers in the world — yet sell only ... |
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| 2024-10-27 | Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually understand. Their products are used by more humans than any other’s in history — almost half of the entire world’s population d... |
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| 2024-09-29 |
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) Here it is: the complete video of the most unbelievable night of Acquired’s nine-year life… our sold out live show at the Chase Center in San Francisco. We joked during the months (months!) of preparation leading up to this event that it was like plann... |
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| 2024-09-17 | Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time. At Chase Center on September 10, 2024, he did an unprecedented thing: a live conversation in front of 6,000 people on Meta’s company strategy, sharing stories from early Facebook history, and his thoughts on ... |
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| 2024-08-08 | Summer greetings from Acquired! Two items for this “mini-episode”:Tickets are now available for our live show at Chase Center in San Francisco, with special guests including Mark Zuckerberg (!). The show is Tuesday, September 10th, with doors opening a... |
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| 2024-07-21 | In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discovered in our research, is probably ... |
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| 2024-06-03 | Starbucks. You’d be hard pressed to name any brand that’s more ubiquitous in the world today. With nearly half a billion global customer purchases per week across its stores and 3rd party retail channels, a significant portion of the human population g... |
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| 2024-04-21 | Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The co... |
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| 2024-03-17 | Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scienti... |
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