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Acquired · Google · Sources

Sources

Every citation in the Google case file, deduped and grouped by provenance. The shape of the evidence base tells you how to read the case — heavy on transcript means show-anchored; heavy on filings means audited; heavy on external press means corroborated.

13 sources3 load-bearing2 categories
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Show transcript (12)

Quotes and chapter references from Acquired itself. The primary source for what the hosts argued.

  1. [01]

    Acquired Google Part I, ch. Bechtolsheim's check

    9 refs · 3 surfaces
  2. [02]

    Acquired Google Part II, ch. Android scale

    6 refs · 3 surfaces
  3. [03]

    Acquired Google Part III, ch. The full AI stack

    5 refs · 2 surfaces
  4. [04]

    Acquired Google Part I

    5 refs
  5. [05]

    Acquired Google Part II

    4 refs
  6. [06]

    Acquired Google Part II (Alphabet)

    3 refs
  7. [07]

    Acquired Google Part III

    2 refs
  8. [08]

    Acquired Google Part I (Origins of Search)

    1 ref
  9. [09]

    Acquired Google Part III + Alphabet FY2024 disclosures

    1 ref
  10. [10]

    Acquired Google Part III + public reporting (Cade Metz, Genius Makers)

    1 ref
  11. [11]

    Acquired Google Part III + Vaswani et al. (2017)

    1 ref
  12. [12]

    https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company

    1 ref

SEC filings (1)

10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements. Audited financial disclosures. The most legally hard evidence in the file.

  1. [01]

    Alphabet FY2024 10-K

    1 ref

Composition

Show transcript12 (92%)
SEC filings1 (8%)

Load-bearing

Sources cited across two or more surfaces (numbers, events, strategies). If any of these turn out to be wrong, multiple claims in the file move with them.

  • Acquired Google Part I, ch. Bechtolsheim's check

    number · event · strategy · 9 refs

  • Acquired Google Part II, ch. Android scale

    number · event · strategy · 6 refs

  • Acquired Google Part III, ch. The full AI stack

    number · strategy · 5 refs