Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
We're joined by two very special guests, Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and her cofounder, spouse and Eventbrite Chairman Kevin Hartz, to tell their story of building Eventbrite together (along with their...
25 Aug 20201h 26min
Pinduoduo
We kick off Season 7 with a bang: Pinduoduo, the incredible five year-old Chinese mashup of "Costco and Disneyland" (as self-described in their IPO prospectus) which recently became the fastest compan...
16 Juli 20201h 47min
Oprah (Harpo Studios)
We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all-time: Oprah Winfrey, and her juggernaut conglomerate Harpo Studios. Born to a poor single mother in...
25 Juni 20202h 6min
SpaceX
On the eve of SpaceX's historic scheduled launch of its first human spaceflight mission — both the first ever by a private company, and the first to take place on American soil in nearly a decade — we...
26 Maj 20202h 37min
Adapting Episode 3: Intel
When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the microprocessor company. Maybe you also think about about 'Intel Inside' and their famous jingle. You might even think "big, stable, boring publ...
12 Maj 20201h 17min
Special: Jason Calacanis
We're joined by the one and only Jason Calacanis for this very special episode, wherein we chronicle Jason's journey from a kid porter in the barrooms of Brooklyn to building the largest independent m...
29 Apr 20201h 30min
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020’. The memo minces no words, admonishing founders & CEOs to “question every assumption about you...
31 Mars 202035min
Adapting Episode 1: Canlis
The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn’t need stories of M&A and IPOs right now. But it does still need stories of great compan...
20 Mars 202041min
