Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent

第 3 季第 10 集：腾讯

Acquired

2018-12-17

1 小时 53 分钟

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We close out Season 3 and our China mini-series with a monster episode on Tencent, the Shenzhen-based social networking and entertainment powerhouse. We dive deep into the story of Pony Ma and his cofounders’ incredible journey from making software for pagers(!) to QQ, WeChat, League of Legends, Fortnite, Snapchat and even Tesla. This is one finale you don’t want to miss! Sponsors:ServiceNow: https://bit.ly/acqsnaiagentsHuntress: https://bit.ly/acqhuntressVanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta More Acquired!: Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Merch Store!Carve Outs: Ben: President Obama’s OG podcast! https://bit.ly/2BqXxHJDavid: Kara Swisher’s interview with the Google Walkout organizers: https://bit.ly/2RwuskZDavid (bonus!): Allen Iverson on the Players’ Tribune: https://bit.ly/2EkrRHQ

Also, I did have Tesla that they invested in Tesla.
And I have one other that is kind of surprising that they own a good bit of or owned a good bit of.
Excellent.
Do you know that one?
Snap.
Snap, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
There's, there's.
Tencent is everywhere.
Welcome to season three, episode 10 of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and IPOs.
I'm Ben Gilbert.
I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts.
Today we are covering a company that Wikipedia describes as a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate founded in 1998.
Of course, this is 10 cent.
All of that and so much more.
All that and a bag of chips and a bag of 12% stake in SNAP.
David, we'll get to that later.
Spoilers well, so what is Tencent, besides that very long definition that feels conglomerate?
Y.
Well, first off, they're notoriously bad at pr and they actually talk about this as a company.

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