Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 383 minutes

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Summary

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But, somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually understand. Their products are used by more humans than any other’s in history — almost half of the entire world’s population daily. But… what is Meta? Why do they do what they do? How do they do what they do? Ask ten people and you’ll likely get ten very different sets of answers.

Today, we dive deeper than we’ve ever gone trying to find Acquired’s answers to those questions. And after months of research and 6+ hours of incredible stories about how they (and really “they” being Mark himself) bet it all and win time and time again in the face of overwhelming odds, we arrive at our answers. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, AI, Oculus, Orion, it’s all here. Tune in for one of the greatest corporate stories of all time: Meta, a Mark Zuckerberg Production.

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0:00.0	All right, so I was up late last night, late for me as a dad is like 11 PM, but I'm sitting here at my
0:06.7	computer in my dark basement, you know, pulling notes together.
0:10.6	David, what music did I have on? You have one guess.
0:14.0	Oh, oh, I know exactly what you had on. You had Trent Reznor Social Network soundtrack.
0:20.0	It makes anything you're doing feel twice as important and twice as revolutionary and it just felt very apt for this episode.
0:29.0	Oh man.
0:30.0	So I have been listening in the last 24 hours to 50 cent into club because that came out my
0:35.9	freshman year of college same year as the Facebook.com and like man 50 cent Facebook.com can't get any better than that.
0:45.6	Perfect match made in heaven.
0:47.2	Well I'll check out our wall-to-wall from the old days and see if they're already
0:50.6	posts about that.
0:51.6	All right let's do it.
0:54.0	Let's do it.
0:55.0	Let's do it.
0:56.0	Who got the truth?
0:58.0	Is it you, is it you, is it you,
1:00.0	is it you, who got the truth now?
1:02.0	Is it you, is it you who got the truth now?
1:05.0	Is it you, is it you? Is it you?
1:06.0	Sit me down, say it straight, another story on the way.
1:10.0	Who got the truth?
1:12.0	Welcome to the fall 2024 season of acquired the
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