---
title: "Founders Talk: The acquisition of a lifetime"
description: "After two years of lazy scheduling attempts and conflicts, Adam and I sat down to chat about Speaker Deck, GitHub, Microsoft and more."
url: "https://www.johnnunemaker.com/founders-talk/"
author: "John Nunemaker"
published: "2021-08-26"
updated: "2021-08-26"
tags: ["podcast"]
---

# Founders Talk: The acquisition of a lifetime

[Adam](https://twitter.com/adamstac) summarized our conversation well:

> On today’s show Adam is joined by John Nunemaker (an old friend). For some of you listening you might remember John’s appearance on The Changelog #11, which was basically forever ago.
> 
> Or his company Ordered List — they made Gauges, Harmony, and Speaker Deck which was quite popular in its time — so much so that they attracted the attention of Chris Wanstrath, one of the co-founders of GitHub to acquire Ordered List. The rest as they say is history.
> 
> Today, John and I go back through that history to see what it was like to be acquired by GitHub and how that single choice has forever changed his life.

You can follow [this link](https://changelog.com/founderstalk/79) or use this fancy embed below to listen.