Season 2, Episode 9: GitHub

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

We’re live on the scene the day following the biggest announcement in the open source software world since well, open source software: Microsoft acquiring GitHub for $7.5B in stock. How did we get here? What does it mean for software developers going forward? And most importantly, why is there a creepy half-cat / half-octopus plastered all over everything? As always, Acquired has the answers.

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

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

Carve Outs:

Ben: The Idea Maze by Chris Dixon
David: Invisible Asymptotes by Eugene Wei

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is what I'm definitely my brain is not working right
0:07.2	It has been a long day Welcome to Season 2 episode 9 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and
0:26.8	IPOs.
0:27.8	I'm Ben Gilbert.
0:28.8	I'm David Rosenthal.
0:30.0	And we are your hosts.
0:31.8	Today we are coming at you on Tuesday, June 5th,
0:34.6	the day following the big announcement
0:36.3	that Microsoft is buying GitHub.
0:38.8	Ooh, I thought you were gonna say the day after Monday, June 4th. It is also after Monday, June 4th.
0:43.0	It is also after Monday, June 4th.
0:45.5	And, you know, this show is clearly patterning after acquired.
0:51.7	It is a San Francisco company and a Seattle company that are joining forces and I don't know where I'm going with that.
1:01.0	But we sit here in Wave Capital in San Francisco near the the headquarters of GitHub to
1:07.0	To celebrate this momentum occasion indeed indeed and this is our second in-person episode in a row.
1:15.8	We actually recorded what we thought was episode nine
1:18.5	last week together in Seattle.
1:20.6	And turns out now that that's episode 10.
1:23.5	So listeners, you'll have to wait and find out what that could be.
1:27.3	What Seattle company might we have covered?
1:31.4	Tune in next time to find out.
1:33.0	All right, getting into this show, if you're new to the show, you can check out our
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