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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.
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76%10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
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77%Coca-Cola
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65%Google Part III: The AI Company
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65%Google Part II: Alphabet
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79%The Jamie Dimon Interview
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63%Google Part I: Origins of Search
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70%The Steve Ballmer Interview
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79%Epic Systems (MyChart)
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57%Indian Premier League Cricket
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73%TSMC Founder Morris Chang
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62%Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
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71%IKEA
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60%Meta
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71%Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
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62%The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
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70%Chase Center + Summer Update
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70%Microsoft Volume II
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67%Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
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69%Microsoft Volume I
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72%Renaissance Technologies
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65%Hermès
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75%Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
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63%Holiday Special 2023
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62%Visa
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66%Charlie Munger
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63%NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
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74%Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
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63%Nike
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73%Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
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69%Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
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68%Lockheed Martin
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70%Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
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64%Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
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73%Short: The Death of Sega
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77%Nintendo: The Console Wars
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77%Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
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74%Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
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72%Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)
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75%Nintendo's Origins
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70%LVMH
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57%Holiday Special 2022
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72%Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)
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59%Enron
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69%Qualcomm
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65%Benchmark Part II: The Dinner
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78%ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis
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72%Benchmark Part I
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66%Amazon Web Services
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67%Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value
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67%Amazon.com
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69%From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
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66%Walmart
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70%The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
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61%American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
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65%Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
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70%Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
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58%Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
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64%Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
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76%Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
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73%Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
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63%Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
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59%SONY
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56%Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
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68%The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
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74%Peloton
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66%Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
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75%CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
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73%FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
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65%7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
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60%Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
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63%Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
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67%Standard Oil Part II
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64%Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
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61%Standard Oil Part I
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66%TSMC
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75%Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
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72%Andreessen Horowitz Part II
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71%Andreessen Horowitz Part I
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74%Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
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73%Ethereum
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71%Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
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76%Berkshire Hathaway Part III
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68%Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
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72%Berkshire Hathaway Part II
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67%Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)
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67%Berkshire Hathaway Part I
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79%Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
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73%Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
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76%Meituan
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74%The New York Times Company
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66%Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
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72%Bitcoin
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70%Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
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72%Airbnb
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61%DoorDash
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66%Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
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61%Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
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59%Virgin Galactic
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60%Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
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64%Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
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62%Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
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73%The NBA
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61%Special: Acquired x My First Million
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58%Epic Games
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64%Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
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71%Pinduoduo
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69%Oprah (Harpo Studios)
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75%SpaceX
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73%Adapting Episode 3: Intel
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61%Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
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60%Special: Jason Calacanis
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70%Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
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64%Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
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66%The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
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65%Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
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62%Acquired · 1h 44m
70%The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
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76%Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
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68%TikTok
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75%Disney, Plus
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77%The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
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59%Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
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77%Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
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72%Google Maps
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72%The Shopify IPO
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70%Huawei
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71%Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
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72%The Slack DPO
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67%The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
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62%The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
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67%The Uber IPO
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65%The Pinterest IPO
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62%The Lyft IPO
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63%Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
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63%Special: Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!
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65%ARM & SoftBank
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74%ESPN
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72%Tencent
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69%Netflix (Part 2)
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69%Netflix (Part 1)
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69%Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
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65%Behance (with Scott Belsky)
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71%Alibaba
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57%Recode (with Kara Swisher)
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74%The Sonos IPO
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64%The Xiaomi IPO
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77%Tesla
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62%The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
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71%GitHub
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76%T-Mobile / Sprint
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70%PowerPoint
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62%Spotify’s Direct Listing
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57%The Dropbox IPO
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78%SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
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68%Nest
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64%Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt
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68%Zappos (with Alfred Lin)
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71%2017 Holiday Special
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68%Apple - Beats
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66%The Stitch Fix IPO
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70%Qualcomm - Broadcom
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70%The Atlassian IPO
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62%Blue Bottle Coffee
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57%HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
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71%AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
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60%The Square IPO
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69%Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
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70%Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson
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71%Activision Blizzard
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78%Whole Foods Market
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62%SoundJam (iTunes)
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74%BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
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69%The LA Clippers
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64%Oculus
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65%The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
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74%Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
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63%The Snap Inc. IPO
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75%The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
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68%P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
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68%Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
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66%The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
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70%Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
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65%Marvel
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76%The Facebook IPO
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77%Skype
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74%NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
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69%Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
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75%Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
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61%Android
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69%Jet
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68%Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
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69%Waze
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69%Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
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62%ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
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58%Acquired · 1h 01m
73%Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
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68%Snapchat
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68%PayPal
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66%Virgin America
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60%Writely (Google Docs)
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70%Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (with Kurt DelBene)
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65%YouTube
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70%Lucasfilm
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73%Siri
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62%Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)
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65%Twitch
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67%Pixar
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