Ben and David are (almost) live on the scene covering the plucky Southern California “camera company”… uh wait, wrong episode… we mean *speaker* company’s IPO! Continuing the long Acquired tradition of analyzing companies at the intersection of music, tech and business, we discuss the past, present and future of Sonos in world where speakers actually now… speak!Sponsors: Anthropic: <a href="https://bit.ly/acqclaude">https://bit.ly/acqclaude</a> Huntress: <a href="https://bit.ly/acqhuntress">https://bit.ly/acqhuntress</a> Statsig: <a href="https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24">https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24</a> More Acquired!:<ul><li><a href="https://www.acquired.fm/email">Get email updates</a> with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes</li><li><a href="http://acquired.fm/slack">Join the Slack</a></li><li><a href="https://pod.link/acquiredlp">Subscribe to ACQ2</a></li><li><a href="https://www.acquired.fm/store">Merch Store</a>!</li></ul>© Copyright 2015-2025 ACQ, LLC Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.sonos.com/en-us/how-it-started">Sonos own corporate history</a></li></ul>Carve Outs:<ul><li>Ben: <a href="http://investorfieldguide.com/andy/">Andy Rachleff on the Invest like the Best podcast</a></li><li>David: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking-Boys-Silicon-Valley-ebook/dp/B074LQKJJC"> Brotopia</a> by Emily Chang</li></ul>

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Ben Gilbert

David Rosenthal

Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO

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