Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take + Worldwide Meetup Details!

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Spotify + Gimlet/Anchor Quick Take! We continue to experiment on Acquired, this time with a quick-take on Spotify’s bombshell dual-acquisition of Anchor and Gimlet Media. While we may give these deals the full Acquired treatment in the future, we wanted to share our quick thoughts with you all sooner rather than later while the Acquired research department (aka Ben & David’s free time) works through the current episode backlog. Let us know if you like this format and we’ll do more in the future! Sponsor: https://acquired.fm/zoominfo Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! (Apropos ;) >https://kimberlite.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile)

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0:00.0	Hey acquired listeners, we are here with you today for two reasons.
0:04.0	First to remind everyone about our worldwide virtual meetup.
0:08.0	So this Thursday, February 21st, we will all be getting together on the internet
0:12.0	to celebrate acquired passing the million
0:14.6	download milestone, which at this point was like a couple months ago, but you know, it takes us a while
0:19.4	to plan things.
0:20.4	It'll be at 530 PM Pacific Time, which is 830 PM Eastern time in the United States.
0:26.5	We'll be doing it on Zoom.
0:28.1	So we're pushing the boundaries of the medium here and figuring out what it looks like when we all pile
0:32.4	into Zoom, and we all pile into Zoom.
0:33.7	And we are structuring it as a Q&A with folks.
0:36.6	So the Zoom link is available in the show notes.
0:39.1	And if you want to send us a question
0:40.8	or upvote somebody else's question which is very fancy you can ask
0:44.8	it in the slack thanks to a very cool slack bot that that David has set up yeah
0:49.3	called Slido and we're gonna have a there is a channel live in the slack right now called
0:54.3	meetups so head over there to ask questions. Indeed. All right David so the second
1:00.0	reason for this episode. over to you.
1:03.0	Yes, the second reason is in true acquired experimental fashion here.
1:08.0	We keep getting a whole bunch of requests in Slack and elsewhere for our take on things like the Qualtrix acquisition last year for the topic of today,
1:18.0	Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet and Anchor.
1:22.0	But the problem is we can't do like a full acquire. of Gimmlet and Anchor.
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