![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in the movies you just mentioned, you mentioned Looper. Whereas for me, what I love the most about getting to be an artist isn't the finished content, it's the creative process itself. I was wondering, could you share your thoughts on this with the audience? We were recently chatting and you told me this quote that's really stuck with me that the creator economy seems to be about this final finished product and not the actual act of creating, which was a little bit of a lightbulb for me. I've been listening to the Acquired lately and I'm a fan as well, so thank you.īen: Thank you. Please welcome the Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy award-winning, Joe Gordon-Levitt. He took some time out of his busy schedule to be with us here today. He is currently playing Travis Kalanick in a Showtime series called Super Pumped. In addition to all of this, Joe is a musician, a gymnast, an entrepreneur, and the co-founder behind the startup, HitRecord that we will talk about today. Of course, I am talking about Joe Gordon-Levitt. Of course, you'll know him from wildly popular films and shows like Inception or 500 Days of Summer, one of my personal favorites, Looper, or his recent Apple TV show that he wrote, directed, and produced, Mr. It is really my honor to introduce someone, a creator in the truest sense of the word that I've been a fan of for a long time. Because there's plenty of intro in the actual interview, without further ado, let's dive in. We're very excited that we get to share it with you all, our LPs. We wanted to give a huge shout-out to Eva Ho, John Chen, and really thank you just to everyone at their whole firm for hooking this up. Our good friends over at Fika Ventures introduced me to Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a fireside chat that we originally did for their firm's annual meeting. ![]() While David has been out on podcast or paternity leave, I've got an interview that I want to share with you today. Thank you as well to Wilson Sonsini - You can learn more about WSGR at: īen: Hello Acquired LPs.Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for being our banner sponsor for Acquired Season 6.We have five honorable mentions that didn’t make our Top Ten list.It is obviously subject to change going forward from both future and past acquisition performance, as well as fluctuating stock prices. This ranking represents a point in time in history, March 2, 2020.If we made an assumption not disclosed by the parent company, we linked to the source of the reported assumption. All underlying assumptions are based on public financial disclosures unless stated otherwise.We recognize this analysis is flawed (cashflow/profit multiples are better, at least for mature companies), but given the opacity of most companies’ business unit reporting, this was the only way to apply a consistent and straightforward approach to each deal. If you have any examples you think we missed ping us on Slack or email at: We used revenue multiples to estimate the current value of the acquired company, multiplying its current estimated revenue by the market cap-to-revenue multiple of the parent company’s stock. We considered all historical acquisitions - not just technology companies - but may have overlooked some in areas that we know less well.Naspers’ investment in Tencent and Softbank/Yahoo’s investment in Alibaba are disqualified for this reason. In order to count for our list, acquisitions must be at least a majority stake in the target company (otherwise it’s just an investment). ![]()
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