Season 2, Episode 3: Nest

It the color really does have an impact on your brain. Yeah. Yeah, it's like with these billions of dollars, the technology companies actually hire psychologists to intentionally do this stuff. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of Acquired, the podcast about technology, acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts.

It's finally time to cover a no-brainer story here on Acquired, Google's 2014 acquisition of Nest. David, are you pumped? I am So pumped. We uh

Um there's no shortage of research for this one. There's no shortage of requests for this one. And actually that's pretty timely with uh uh the announcement coming out last week that Google is rolling Nest back into, or I guess for the first time into its its main hardware business instead of running as an independent subsidiary. Yeah, I mean the question is like which nest acquisition or divestiture is this officially gonna be about. rolling out into a standalone unit of alphabet.

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