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• Community Showcase: the Nexcast podcasting platform from listener Brian Sanders, along with their podcast chronicling the team\\u2019s journey building the company\\xa0
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• Waze\\u2019s origin in cofounder & CTO Ehud Shabtai\\u2019s desire to hack his portable GPS navigation unit\\n
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• Waze CEO Noam Bardin\\u2019s \\xa0retrospective blog post on the Waze journey\\xa0
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• \\n\\xa0Waze\\u2019s Palo Alto office and the bizarre Silicon Valley phenomenon of tech companies being located in retail storefronts\\xa0
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• 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
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• The climax of the mobile platform wars\\u2026 which it turns out Apple and Google \\xa0both won\\n
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• \\n\\xa0Apple, Facebook, and Google all vying to acquire Waze throughout 2013
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• \\xa0Google\\u2019s renewed design ethos under Larry Page
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• Ben and David spontaneously agree (surprise) to create on a new category of acquisition for the show\\xa0
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• The increasing strategic value of data and data assets as technology enters the age of machine learning\\xa0
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• The coming mega trend of autonomous vehicles, and \\xa0the role Israeli startups are playing in it (including the globalization of startups & innovation)
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• The disruptive power of network and data-based business models
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• Emergence of native as *the* definitive advertising medium on mobile, including ability to close the advertising loop via location-based products and services\\xa0
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Sponsors:
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta
Crusoe: https://bit.ly/acquiredcrusoe
Modern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury

The Carve Out:

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• Ben: Weezer\\u2019s \\u201cSummer Elaine and Drunk Dori\\u201d on Song Exploder\\xa0
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• David: \\xa0Simon Sinek\\u2019s \\u201cStart with Why\\u201d TED Talk\\n
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\\xa0 Followups:\\xa0

• None this week\\u2026 coverage of Instagram Stories to come next time!