Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market
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Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 20, 202623 min

(0:00) Adam Foroughi joins the Besties! (3:07) Discovery vs search & is your phone listening? (10:04) IPO tumble & becoming your own best investor (16:00) Privacy rules, Apple's crackdown & how agents change people's shopping (20:00) How a lean team beats the giants, margin moats & building in China Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI training and inference. https://iren.com/ Oracle connects the data, applications, and infrastructure that turn AI into business outcomes—with...

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Adam is probably the best founder no one's ever heard of. There's an ad platform hiding inside 100,000 mobile games and is quietly outperforming Facebook ads for e-commerce brands. Of all those thousand plus IPOs, the number one most valuable is App11.

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App11 CEO Adam Puruji. The founder mentality's got to be chase-winning. They're going to print something like $6 billion in cash this year. In a world where things don't make sense, people think you're cheating.

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Instead of realizing you built one of the cooler technologies the world's ever seen. Please welcome Adam Farruegy. Hi. Welcome, Adam.

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