Ben Gilbert: preference

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…Welcome back to Episode 25 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions. Today’s episode, we’re trying something new. We’re piloting a new idea, analyzing IPO’s, in addition to our normal acquisition format. When we started the show, our goal was to understand what made an acquisition go spectacularly well. And over the past 24 episodes, we started zooming out and asking ourselves exactly why that is. Both David and I are really trying to understand how to create big enduring companies, and we know that’s why a good chunk of our audience listens to the show. Oftentimes you can have these huge, successful acquisitions but that’s not the only goal. The goal, for us and for many entrepreneurs, is to create lasting value. As we thought about what direction we wanted to take the show, it became more and more clear to us that we should be looking at companies that don’t get acquired but go all the way to going public. And really, these are even a better example of building hugely valuable companies. So today, we’re starting with a monumental IPO in recent history: Facebook. Dun, dun, dun……

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