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Aug 2018
1h 41m

Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO

Ben Gilbert And David Rosenthal
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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!

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