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Acquired

by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

215 episodes

Podcast overview

About this podcast

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

Episodes215total
Frequencyabout 1.7 episodes per monthCalculated from 215 episodes published between Oct 2015 and Jun 2026.
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TechnologyBusinessInvestingPodcastEnglish

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Acquired publishes about 1.7 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

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Older episodes of Acquired are available in the paginated archive, sorted from newest to oldest.

How many episodes of Acquired are available?

215 episodes of Acquired are listed in this archive.

Episodes

Latest first
S1 Ep. 24Nov 2, 20161h 18min
Skype

An acquisition so wild and crazy, they had to do it again. And again. Ben & David cover tech’s perhaps most-traded asset, Skype (which also...

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S1 Ep. 23Oct 23, 20161h 2min
NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

Ben & David broadcast live from the 2016 GeekWire Summit covering one of the all-time greats, Apple’s 1996 acquisition of NeXT. This...

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S1 Ep. 22Oct 14, 20161h 11min
Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)

CFO of Zillow Group Kathleen Philips joins Ben and David to cover the show’s first true “merger” versus “acquisition" (only took 22...

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S1 Ep. 21Sep 27, 20161h 18min
Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

Ben and David go inside the M&A press with Bloomberg’s technology M&A reporter and host of the Deal of the Week Podcast, Alex Sherman. If...

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S1 Ep. 20Sep 16, 20161h 14min
Android

Ben & David examine Google’s 2005 purchase of Android for a rumored $50M, undeniably one of the best technology acquisitions of all time....

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S1 Ep. 19Aug 29, 20161h 5min
Jet

Ben & David break down Jet.com’s meteoric rise, culminating in Walmart’s blockbuster $3B+ acquisition of the company just two years after...

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S1 Ep. 18Aug 22, 20161h 4min
Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

Ben & David are joined by special guest Taylor Barada, VP and Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Adobe, to discuss...

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S1 Ep. 17Aug 3, 20161h 0min
Waze

Topics covered include: Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian Sanders, along with their podcast...

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S1 Ep. 16Jul 12, 201655 min
Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

The meta show: Ben and David turn their gaze inward and examine the podcasting industry through E. W. Scripps’ recent acquisitions of the...

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S1 Ep. 15Jul 5, 20161h 9min
ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

Ben and David return to make their first foray into enterprise software, covering Salesforce’s $2.5B acquisition of ExactTarget in 2013...

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