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Acquired

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Acquired is a long-form business podcast that breaks down the companies, acquisitions, and strategic decisions behind iconic businesses.

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Included for clear, credible perspective as long-form business podcast that breaks down the companies, acquisitions, and strategic decisions behind iconic businesses.

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How Microsoft acquired Bungie and made Halo an Xbox-defining franchise

Acquired November 30, 2015

Case studies 9
Business models 6
Culture building 5
  • A royalty dispute, not creative differences, ended Bungie's time at Microsoft
  • Preserving Bungie's open-plan culture was key to Halo's creative success
  • Halo 2 nearly shipped broken — Jason Jones rebuilt it a year before launch
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Facebook's acquisition of Instagram: how a $1B bet reshaped mobile social

Acquired November 1, 2015

Case studies 9
Business models 7
  • Facebook bought Instagram to own mobile attention before losing it permanently
  • 13 employees, zero revenue — now worth an estimated $35B in three years
  • The deal launched a constellation-of-apps strategy that defined modern social media
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Disney's acquisition of Pixar: how one deal transformed an empire

Acquired October 15, 2015

Case studies 9
Vision & mission 6
  • Disney bought Pixar to reclaim creative magic it had lost entirely
  • Pixar's real value was a process that refused to ship anything bad
  • The deal became Disney's template for absorbing Marvel and Lucasfilm
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