Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

We dive into the crazy, little-known story of how this small, former PC-maker in Cambridge, England dethroned Intel, saved Apple from bankruptcy, became the blueprint for the largest investment fund in history, and of course now powers just about every device you use today. From Issac Newton to the Apple Newton, the Vision Fund and beyond, ARM has had an impact on the technology industry that cannot be overstated!

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Links:

The Nokia 6110: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6110
Fast Company on SoftBank and how the ARM acquisition happened: https://www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-person-in-silicon-valley

Transcript

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0:00.0	Because I mean what's cool is like it is literally the arm six ten that was developed with
0:05.4	Apple for the Apple Newton is the core of all the arm processors. answers. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2 of Acquired, the podcast about Technology Acquisitions and IPOs.
0:30.0	I'm Ben Gilbert.
0:32.0	I'm David Rosenthal. and we are your hosts. Today we are going to explore a
0:36.5	topic that has flown relatively under the radar despite being the primary
0:41.2	component of every single one of our phones.
0:44.0	Soft Banks $32 billion purchase of the British-based arm holdings.
0:50.0	For folks that listen to the previous episode that we did on soft bank uh... you know they
0:54.6	were once a japanese telecom and multi national conglomerate now
0:58.9	that has a
1:00.0	close to a hundred billion dollar uh that they have created massive disruption in the startup
1:06.9	landscape and here we are diving into kind of the deal that that started at all and with just an essential piece of technology that we all use every single day.
1:17.0	Listeners, you know that a few months ago we started our limited partner program for folks to go deeper on technology, startups and VC topics
1:25.2	with us.
1:26.2	David, I wanted to say that I'm particularly pumped where we landed in our last episode on
1:30.4	investment theses on ambient computing and processing happening
1:34.9	everywhere as sort of the next enormous technology wave. So I think it's
1:38.8	super relevant to this episode and we will find out why as we dig in.
1:44.0	So if you're interested or you just want to support the show and like what we do,
1:48.0	you should click the link in the show notes to consider becoming a prestigious acquired limited partner or go to
1:53.9	kimberlite dot fm slash acquired.
1:56.6	All right listeners our sponsor is one of our favorite companies
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