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27 Sept 2016 Acquired Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman

“I don’t know if I should give this away because my competitor at the Wall Street Journal are listening and they’ll take the idea, but I’ll at least tease you guys.”

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Speaker unverified
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Recorded
27 Sept 2016
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yeah. That is absolutely something we found and have been spot on on this show. Our listeners can tell us if you disagree but I doubt you will. People listen to us for the stories. That’s what’s so interesting that we found is this difference between news versus stories versus analysis and getting that balance right. Obviously our listener base and potential listener base is much smaller than Bloomberg’s. But I find it fascinating how those three pillars of what’s going on vary by medium. Yeah. I don’t know if I should give this away because my competitor at the Wall Street Journal are listening and they’ll take the idea, but I’ll at least tease you guys. That’s it sort of what you’re hinting at where there is sort of an anniversary coming up of a counterfactual, a deal that did not happen. So that’s sort of what the oral history that I’m thinking of doing is to talk to the people that were involved and sort of why it didn’t happen and like what the world would have looked like if it did. So cool. Well, I mean thinking our latest episode on Android is probably on-track to eclipse this. But I think our most popular episode is Snapchat.…

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