122: Hashtag Octothorpe

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft's mind-boggling purchase of Activision this week prompted us to look back on other tech acquisitions large and small over the last two decades. Herein, a chat about the big winners, the stinkers, and everything in between. Which company has swallowed up the most smaller fish? Was Compaq seriously worth $25 billion dollars? Who exactly owns those robots that are going to end us all? What should you definitively NOT say in a meeting with Steve Jobs? Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	We talked about wordal here yet?
0:01.9	Ah, yes, yes.
0:03.2	We talked about starters.
0:04.2	We talked about opening gambits.
0:05.7	Can we talk about letter roll yet?
0:07.0	I've moved to, wait, I'm sorry, what?
0:09.2	Letteral.
0:10.2	Letteral?
0:10.6	It's one letter each day.
0:12.3	Oh, no.
0:12.6	Oh, yes, you told me about the concept, but not the name.
0:15.2	That's a great name on top of a great concept.
0:17.7	I'm going to go play right now. My first day, 26 out of 26. It took me all 100% of the chances. The odds of that are
0:24.3	basically $1.10 billion. That's, you should, you should do the opposite of playing the lottery.
0:31.3	W.
0:32.9	Nope. R. T. It was L the day I did. I am about halfway through the alphabet as of right now. Oh, that's fast. Dude. T. It was L the day I did it. I am about halfway through the alphabet as of right now.
0:39.0	Wow, that's fast.
0:40.3	Dude.
0:41.0	Z.
0:41.7	C, fee.
0:42.9	Oh, my God.
0:43.6	It took me 25 tries.
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