About this episode
Adam Foroughi discusses the journey of AppLovin, including its stock buyback strategy and challenges in the gaming industry.
Chapters (00:00:00) The $6B Buyback That Made $60B (00:02:15) Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount (00:05:02) Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012 (00:09:00) From App Discovery To Ad Platform (00:14:45) Beating Google's AdMob With Performance Marketing (00:19:30) No Board For Six Years (00:30:12) The China Deal That Almost Blew Up (00:37:45) The Convertible Note Pivot And KKR (00:46:30) Buying Gaming Studios To Get Data (00:51:45) Losing Trust With Game Developers (00:58:20) The 2022 Crash And How He Kept His Team (01:02:00) Building An Hyper Competent & Efficient Company (01:07:25) Why Every New Hire Needs His Approval (01:19:06) The Axon 2 Inflection Point (01:21:15) One Great Engineer Now Beats A Hundred Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: David Senra
Guest: Adam Foroughi
Topics covered
- stock buyback
- venture capital
- advertising platforms
- performance marketing
- company management
- gaming industry
Keywords
- AppLovin
- stock buyback
- venture capital
- performance marketing
- gaming studios
- advertising
- company management
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AppLovin, Google, KKR
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