Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://kimberlite.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile) Topics covered include: * Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian Sanders, along with their podcast chronicling the team’s journey building the company * Waze’s origin in cofounder & CTO Ehud Shabtai’s desire to hack his portable GPS navigation unit * Waze CEO Noam Bardin’s retrospective blog post on the Waze journey * Waze’s Palo Alto office and the bizarre Silicon Valley phenomenon of tech companies being located in retail storefronts * Apple’s ill-fated launch of Apple Maps as part of iOS 6 at WWDC 2012, Apple’s subsequent apology letter, and Scott Forstall’s ultimate ouster from the company * The climax of the mobile platform wars… which it turns out Apple and Google both won * Apple, Facebook, and Google all vying to acquire Waze throughout 2013 * Google’s renewed design ethos under Larry Page * Ben and David spontaneously agree (surprise) to create on a new category of acquisition for the show * The increasing strategic value of data and data assets as technology enters the age of machine learning * The coming mega trend of autonomous vehicles, and the role Israeli startups are playing in it (including the globalization of startups & innovation) * The disruptive power of network and data-based business models * Emergence of native as the definitive advertising medium on mobile, including ability to close the advertising loop via location-based products and services

The Carve Out * Ben: Weezer’s “Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori” on Song Exploder * David: Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” TED Talk

Followups: * None this week… coverage of Instagram Stories to come next time!