Episode 14: LinkedIn

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ben and David cover the 3-day-old acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. They cover LinkedIn’s founding story by Reid Hoffman, break down their core businesses, analyze recent stock behavior, and speculate on the future of the company inside Microsoft. The big question - were they worth the price tag?

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0:00.0	You are not yet schooled in the power of network effects young Gilbert
0:06.4	Oh cut that who got the truth is it you is it you is you
0:12.2	who got the truth now?
0:15.0	Is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you?
0:18.0	Sit me down, say it straight, another story on the way, Who Got the Truth?
0:24.0	Welcome to episode 14 of Acquired,
0:26.0	the podcast where we talk about technology acquisitions that actually went well.
0:30.0	I'm Ben Gilbert.
0:31.0	I'm David Rosenthal.
0:32.0	And we are your hosts. We have a very special episode for you today.
0:37.0	I can't really think of a time when I didn't call it a very special episode.
0:40.0	Every episode is special then. It's true.
0:43.0	This episode is not necessarily about a technology acquisition that actually went well.
0:48.0	We have no idea how it went.
0:51.0	It is huge and it is recent. Today we are talking about
0:54.6	LinkedIn being acquired by Microsoft two days ago at the time of the time of
0:59.6	recording and super speculative but I think the whole internet is sort of a buzz with you know
1:06.4	what's the deal with this this acquisition why did they do it you know what's the future
1:10.7	hold and I think it's going to be super interesting to speculate a little bit and
1:15.0	throughout some possible paths and draw some conclusions.
1:18.7	Yeah, we're going to have some fun with this.
1:20.3	I don't think we've ever gotten as many requests on slack and
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