Broadcasts.com - "Acquired Episode 17: Waze" (Acquired)

Published: Aug. 3, 2016, 10:57 p.m.

Topics covered include:\xa0

Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian Sanders, along with their podcast chronicling the team\u2019s journey building the company\xa0
Waze\u2019s origin in cofounder & CTO Ehud Shabtai\u2019s desire to hack his portable GPS navigation unit
Waze CEO Noam Bardin\u2019s \xa0retrospective blog post on the Waze journey\xa0
\xa0Waze\u2019s Palo Alto office and the bizarre Silicon Valley phenomenon of tech companies being located in retail storefronts\xa0
Apple\u2019s \xa0ill-fated launch of Apple Maps as part of iOS 6 at WWDC 2012, Apple\u2019s subsequent apology letter, and \xa0Scott Forstall\u2019s ultimate ouster from the company\xa0
The climax of the mobile platform wars\u2026 which it turns out Apple and Google \xa0both won
\xa0Apple, Facebook, and Google all vying to acquire Waze throughout 2013
\xa0Google\u2019s renewed design ethos under Larry Page
Ben and David spontaneously agree (surprise) to create on a new category of acquisition for the show\xa0
The increasing strategic value of data and data assets as technology enters the age of machine learning\xa0
The coming mega trend of autonomous vehicles, and \xa0the 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\xa0

Sponsors:
ServiceNow: https://bit.ly/acquiredsn
Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

The Carve Out:

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