Acquired

Thank you for the great effort and research that you put into each episode. I came across ACQUIRED from your guest appearance on TechMeme Ride Home’s entrepreneur showdown episode. Really enjoying the deep dives!

I stumbled upon this podcast when searching for info on a company I was researching. Though the episodes have on average gotten longer over the three seasons they’ve done, the show uses a set format throughout and as such allows to jump around and listen to the episodes I’m most interested in. The set format is complimented by the thoroughness of the research. For a podcast not created by journalists, the reporting sense in general quite good, with the overall narratives easy to follow. I have four stars because there is certainly room to improve for this relatively young podcast. The storytelling can be a bit dry at times, and often includes self-reference that can feel obscure when not explained for those unfamiliar with the West Coast private equity world. There is sometimes a feeling that the acquisitions chosen are acquisitions the hosts like, and so the grades given at the end can feel a tad inflated. Neither of these criticisms is enough to turn me off from listening in and enjoying the explanations of some recent tech world transactions by a pair of intelligent insiders.