Season 2, Episode 10: The Rover-DogVacay Merger (with Rover CEO Aaron Easterly)

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal, and we are your hosts. Today we are talking about a very important company. Without this company existing, there would be no acquired, and it's likely that David and I never would have met. Today's episode is about rover.com and their merger with Dog Vake to consolidate the grand rivals of the Dog Sitting Wars. And we're super fortunate to have with us today the founder and CEO

Over dot com. Aaron Easterly. Well thanks for having me. Glad to be here. Yeah, we're we're super pumped. So Aaron, this is the part where we introduce the guest, and I was gonna do it from memory, but I wanted to make sure that I nailed the details.

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