Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent

We close out Season 3 and our China mini-series with a monster episode on Tencent, the Shenzhen-based social networking and entertainment powerhouse. We dive deep into the story of Pony Ma and his cofounders’ incredible journey from making software for pagers(!) to QQ, WeChat, League of Legends, Fortnite, Snapchat and even Tesla. This is one finale you don’t want to miss!

Sponsors:

ServiceNow: https://bit.ly/acqsnaiagents Huntress: https://bit.ly/acqhuntress Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

More Acquired!:

Get email updates • with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Merch Store • !

© Copyright 2015-2024 ACQ, LLC

Carve Outs:

• Ben: President Obama’s OG podcast! https://bit.ly/2BqXxHJ • David: Kara Swisher’s interview with the Google Walkout organizers: https://bit.ly/2RwuskZ • David (bonus!): Allen Iverson on the Players’ Tribune: https://bit.ly/2EkrRHQ

Release date

Lydbog: 17. december 2018