Podapalooza Announcement: Intel

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Missing Acquired? We are too. But the world's not done adapting just yet, and neither are we. So get ready for (in the immortal words of Sammy Hagar) the best of both worlds: an Acquired + Adapting crossover lollapalooza... at Podapalooza 2020! We'll be covering the mother of all adaptations, Intel's abandonment of the memory business in favor of microprocessors in the mid-1980's. What is Podapalooza? It's a charity podcast festival that our friends over at Glow are putting on next weekend, April 25-26, and we're really excited to be part of it. Dozens of the best podcasters on the internet (e.g., Patrick at Invest Like the Best, Levar Burton, Cory Doctorow, J.D. Vance, etc.) are creating exclusive content for the festival, with all proceeds going to COVID-19 relief. As Glow puts it, Podapalooza is the 2020 version of Live-Aid: podcast hosts instead of rockers, pajamas at home instead of big hair on stage, but still the same purpose of supporting relief for the most important cause of this moment. We think it's a really great idea -- we've already bought our tickets and hope you do too. You can sign up at: https://www.podapalooza.org

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0:00.0	Hey Acquired listeners, it is Ben and David here with a special announcement for you.
0:05.4	David are you pumped? I am super pumped. Well listeners our next episode is going to be a
0:12.0	crossover acquired adapting episode.
0:15.2	It's acquired in that it is a big tech company that we've wanted to cover for a long time,
0:20.0	and it's adapting in that it's telling their story of change in the face of dire crisis and coming out stronger on the other side,
0:29.6	which of course David you want to give away what the episodes
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.6	The reason we chose this one, by the way, this also makes me think
0:36.9	it's the best of both worlds.
0:38.4	For some reason, I'm thinking of,
0:40.1	you know that Van Halen song from,
0:41.9	I was the 80s and 90s, best of both worlds?
0:44.0	I don't.
0:45.0	David, you and I have very different taste of music.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:48.0	Okay, so we have the original OG adaptation.
0:56.4	We couldn't think of anything better, especially for the reason we are doing this episode,
1:00.1	which we will tell you in one second.
1:02.0	We're doing Intel, the original adaptation pivot you might call,
1:06.5	although we like the word adapting and I think Andy Grove would agree with that from the memory business in which they were founded and operated for the first 10, 15 years or so of their life to what we all know them as the microprocessor company.
1:24.0	Yeah, well don't give too much more away,
1:26.0	because it's like a whole crux of the episode, man.
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