Episode 50: Apple - Beats

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Acquired crosses the half-century mark with an instant classic: Apple’s 2014 purchase of Beats, its largest acquisition ever. If you knew Beats as just another headphone company, think again—the history on this one will keep your heads ringin’.

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Carve Outs: * Ben: HQ * David: Wooden on Leadership

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh man, all right.
0:01.6	Too cheesy.
0:02.6	Yeah, you should do it.
0:03.6	It's going to be cheesy, but you should do it.
0:04.6	And I'll make, yeah.
0:06.3	I love the cheese.
0:07.9	Yeah, I, uh, that's perfect.
0:10.6	Then I can make fun of you for dad jokes. That's perfect.
0:13.0	Welcome to you for dad jokes. Welcome back to the Big Half Century Mark, episode 50 of acquired the
0:28.5	podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Ben Gilbert I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts
0:36.2	So today we are doing a classic episode of acquired. It's the reason we started the show. It's the original format. It's one we've been talking about doing for a long time and it's one that we've probably had, you know, 2030 requests for this since we started the show.
0:52.0	Finally, we are covering finally it's an apple episode.
0:55.8	We have to say finally we are covering the acquisition of beats by Apple in 2014 for $3 billion.
1:04.4	I'm so excited about this one.
1:06.9	Yeah, yeah, me too.
1:09.2	I wish I wasn't a little under the weather for it, but listeners bear with me.
1:14.3	I know I'm a little nasely this episode.
1:16.4	You're like, this is going to be like Michael Jordan in game six of the finals playing with the flu.
1:22.3	She's like, you're going to rise to the occasion bin.
1:24.8	Thank you, David.
1:28.0	All right, listeners, our sponsor is one of our favorite companies, Vanta, and we have something
1:37.6	very new from them to share.
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