Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO

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That's great. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3 of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal, and we are your hosts. Today we are covering the IPO of a company that has devices littering my home in the most wonderful way, Sonos. So Sonos

was founded with a clear mission, and that was to fill every home with music, or so says their S one. And today we will decide based on their very recent IPO last month, you know, how to go. And we will forecast what does it look like in the future for this IPO to sort of look like an A plus in retrospect, and uh you know, what does it look like if it was a failure in retrospect. And what are the things that have to evolve in the landscape of home audio and in the actions of the company in order to play out either of those scenarios. It is a unusually clear and compelling mission.

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