Acquired Podcast Carve Outs

Season 1, Episode 10 – Virgin America 

• Michael Mauboussin: “The Success Equation:Untangling Skill and Luck” | Talks at Google

Season 1, Episode 11 – PayPal 

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• The Bill Simmons Podcast – Chris Sacca

Season 1, Episode 13 – Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles)

• The Startup Podcast Season 3
• The Future of Technology is in Your Ear (Link to product)
• The Risk Not Taken

Season 1, Episode 14 – LinkedIn

• Jeff Bezos at Code 2016
• Elon Musk at Code 2016

Season 1, Episode 15 – ExactTarget (Acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey

• Ben: The Talk Show live at WWDC 2016 with Phil Schiller & Craig Federighi
• David: The Score Takes Care of Itself by legendary 49ers coach Bill Walsh, originally recommended by Jack Dorsey (no relation to Scott 🙂 at YC Startup School ’13
• Scott: 2016 Scipps National Spelling Bee, including one of the finalists’ favorite words: indefatigable

Season 1, Episode 16 – Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Sripps)

• Ben: Mark Titus, AKA @ClubTrillion is joining the Ringer
• David: OKR’s and regular goal setting, including great “how to” from

Season 1, Episode 17 – Waze

• Ben: Weezer’s “Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori” on Song Exploder
• David: Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” TED Talk

Season 1, Episode 18 – Special‚ An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

• Ben: Why the Concorde failed by Vox
• David: Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time
• Taylor: Mindset by Carol Dweck, Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

Season 1, Episode 19 – Jet

• Ben: Michael Mauboussin’s Talk at Google and Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors after thirty years of honing his craft
• David: Strava, the fantastic social fitness-tracking app

Season 1, Episode 20 – Android

• Ben: Business Adventures by John Brooks, Bill Gates’ favorite business book
• David: Ezra Edelman’s fantastic 5-part ESPN documentary on O.J. Simpson, O.J.: Made in America

Season 1, Episode 21 – Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman

• Ben: Phil of Drones’ Burning Man 2016 recap video
• David: Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
• Alex: Clinton’s Samantha Bee Problem, by Ross Douthat in the NYT Opinion Pages

Season 1, Episode 22 – Zillow + Trulia with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philip

• Ben: The Marvel Symphonic Universe
• David: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Season 1, Episode 23 – NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

• Ben: Stewart Butterfield (Cofounder/CEO of Slack) on the The Ezra Klein Show
• David: DJI and the Rise of the Robomasters

Season 1, Episode 24 – Skype

• Ben: Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
• David: SOMA the Musical starring our very own Acquired listener, the brilliant and talented Jake Saper!

Season 1, Episode 25 – The Facebook IPO

• Ben: Amazon employee #1 Shel Kaphan on the great Internet History Podcast
• David: Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna

Season 1, Episode 26 – Marvel

• Ben: Westworld
• David: Overdrive

Season 1, Episode 27 – Special: Conversation with Microsoft’s Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz

• Ben: OK Go – The One Moment
• David: UC Berkeley Oral History with Sequoia Capital founder Don Valentine
• Brian: Om Malik’s recent piece in the New Yorker:

Season 1, Episode 28 – The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg

• Ben: the band The Album Leaf
• David: Cormac McCarthy (author of All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, etc)’s contribution to W. Brian Arthur’s landmark paper about the economics of the internet, “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business“
• Tom: Michael Lewis’s latest book The Undoing Project, chronicling the Nobel Prize winning partnership between Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky in developing the field of behavioral economics

Season 1, Episode 29 – Special: 2016 Review and 2017 Predictions

• Books: Ben: On Writing Well ; David: The Creative Habit and the Asimov Robot/Empire/Foundation series
• Article: Ben: Wait But Why: Religion for the Nonreligious ; David: The New York Times: The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
• Podcasts: Both: The Ezra Klein Show
• Music: Ben: Justin Bieber ; David: Stevie Nicks
• TV/Movies: Ben: Westworld ; David: Rouge One
• Apps: Ben: ReachNow ; David: Amazon Music

Season 1, Episode 30 – P.A. Semi + AuthenTec

• Ben: Rands in Repose: The Situation
• David: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Season 1, Episode 31 – The Uber – Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

• Ben: Taming the Mammoth on Wait But Why
• David: Conversations with Tyler Podcast by Tyler Cowen, co-author of the Marginal Revolution blog
• Brad: Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens)’s new book

Season 1, Episode 32 – The Snap Inc. IPO

• Ben: The Bill Simmons Podcast with Ben Thompson
• David: The Art of War, also Evan Spiegel’s Carve Out for 2013 🙂

Season 1, Episode 33 – Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)

• Ben: The famous University of Washington’s “Love Lab” Dr. John Gottman: “The Secret to Love is Just Kindness“
• David: Berlin
• Brian: The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

Season 1, Episode 34 – Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan

• Ben: Dan Primack’s new daily newsletter, Pro Rata
• David: The Wizard and the Bruiser podcast
• Dan: The Man in the Glass