Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

If you thought the telecom business was boring, think again! Acquired brings you an episode packed with more drama than an entire season of Game of Thrones. Starting with a death in the family, we follow a tale of fortunes lost and rebuilt, bitter battles between rivals who once worked for each other, and at the center of it all, a lesson in the power of stable cashflow businesses. This is one call you don’t want to drop!

Sponsors:
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

Statsig: bit.ly/statsigacquired
Modern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury

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Carve Outs:

Ben: Andrew Chen on the Intercom podcast
David: The 996 Podcast from Zara & Hans at GGV Capital

Transcript

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0:00.0	the reinvention of John Ledger.
0:02.7	Of John Ledger.
0:04.3	Like John Legend.
0:05.8	Yeah.
0:06.8	Yeah. Welcome to Season 2, episode 8 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs I'm
0:25.3	Ben Gilbert I'm David Rosenfeld and we are your hosts today we'll be diving
0:30.2	into the recently announced or should should I say, proposed but not regulator approved
0:35.8	Sprint T-Mobile merger.
0:40.1	David, you're laughing.
0:41.8	I'm laughing. Who knows what's real these days?
0:46.7	This may be yet another episode where we cover an acquisition, much like the Broadcom
0:52.1	merger that did not actually happen.
0:55.9	And so only time will tell, but now seems like a really fun time to dive into the topic.
1:01.1	Here the crazy stories of both of these companies dating back over a century
1:06.4	and dig into the genesis of where most of the technology that we use today really came
1:11.2	together here in the Northwest and specifically in Bellevue, Washington.
1:15.5	Well, we'll have to dive in.
1:18.3	David, don't give me your answer now, wait till grading, but are we going from four carriers to three or from two carriers to
1:24.8	three? Well we'll have to wait for that but it's funny in our last episode in the
1:31.8	PowerPoint episode we were you
1:33.1	joking that they're like in the 1980s there were like 11 people who worked in
1:38.4	technology and who who knew that there actually was a related industry that had even fewer people working in it?
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