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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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Vanguard
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Formula 1
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The NFL
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Costco
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74%10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
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Coca-Cola
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50%Google Part III: The AI Company
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Google Part II: Alphabet
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The Jamie Dimon Interview
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Google Part I: Origins of Search
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The Steve Ballmer Interview
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Epic Systems (MyChart)
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Indian Premier League Cricket
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TSMC Founder Morris Chang
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Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
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IKEA
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Meta
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Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
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The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
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Chase Center + Summer Update
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Microsoft Volume II
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Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
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Microsoft Volume I
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Renaissance Technologies
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Hermès
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Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
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Holiday Special 2023
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Visa
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Charlie Munger
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
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Nike
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Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
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Lockheed Martin
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
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Short: The Death of Sega
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Nintendo: The Console Wars
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Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)
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Nintendo's Origins
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LVMH
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Holiday Special 2022
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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)
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Enron
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Qualcomm
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Benchmark Part II: The Dinner
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ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis
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Benchmark Part I
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Amazon Web Services
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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value
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Amazon.com
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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
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Walmart
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The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
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American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)
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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
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Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)
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Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
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Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)
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Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
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Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
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SONY
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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
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Peloton
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Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)
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FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
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7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
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Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)
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Complexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)
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Standard Oil Part II
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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More
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Standard Oil Part I
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TSMC
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Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3
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Andreessen Horowitz Part II
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Andreessen Horowitz Part I
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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
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Ethereum
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Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC
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Berkshire Hathaway Part III
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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
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Berkshire Hathaway Part II
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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)
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Berkshire Hathaway Part I
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Special: "Why Now" for Digital Health (with Levels founder Josh Clemente)
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Rec Room Part II (with CEO Nick Fajt)
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Meituan
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The New York Times Company
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Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
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Bitcoin
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Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
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Airbnb
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DoorDash
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Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
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Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
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Virgin Galactic
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Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
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Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
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The NBA
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Special: Acquired x My First Million
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Epic Games
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Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
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Pinduoduo
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Oprah (Harpo Studios)
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SpaceX
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Adapting Episode 3: Intel
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Special Episode: Jason Calacanis
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Special: Jason Calacanis
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Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
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Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
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The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
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Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
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The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)
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TikTok
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Disney, Plus
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The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
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Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
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Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
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Google Maps
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The Shopify IPO
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Huawei
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Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
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The Slack DPO
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The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
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The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
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The Uber IPO
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The Pinterest IPO
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The Lyft IPO
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Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)
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Special: Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!
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ARM & SoftBank
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ESPN
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Tencent
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Netflix (Part 2)
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Netflix (Part 1)
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Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
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Behance (with Scott Belsky)
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Alibaba
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Recode (with Kara Swisher)
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The Sonos IPO
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The Xiaomi IPO
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Tesla
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The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)
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GitHub
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T-Mobile / Sprint
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PowerPoint
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Spotify’s Direct Listing
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The Dropbox IPO
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SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
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Nest
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Raising a Seed Round with Against Gravity CEO Nick Fajt
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Zappos (with Alfred Lin)
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2017 Holiday Special
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Apple - Beats
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The Stitch Fix IPO
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Qualcomm - Broadcom
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The Atlassian IPO
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Blue Bottle Coffee
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HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
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AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
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The Square IPO
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Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
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Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson
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Activision Blizzard
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Whole Foods Market
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SoundJam (iTunes)
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BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”
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The LA Clippers
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Oculus
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The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
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Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
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The Snap Inc. IPO
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The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
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P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
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Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
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The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
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Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
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Marvel
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The Facebook IPO
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Skype
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NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
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Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
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Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
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Android
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Jet
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Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
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Waze
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Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
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ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
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Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
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Snapchat
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PayPal
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Virgin America
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Writely (Google Docs)
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Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (with Kurt DelBene)
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YouTube
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Lucasfilm
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Siri
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Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)
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Twitch
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Pixar
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