David Senra
David Senra

Adam Foroughi, AppLovin

May 3, 2026 · 1 h 26 min

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Chapters

() The $6B Buyback That Made $60B

() Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount

() Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012

() From App Discovery To Ad Platform

() Beating Google's AdMob With Performance Marketing

() No Board For Six Years

() The China Deal That Almost Blew Up

() The Convertible Note Pivot And KKR

() Buying Gaming Studios To Get Data

() Losing Trust With Game Developers

() The 2022 Crash And How He Kept His Team

() Building An Hyper Competent & Efficient Company

() Why Every New Hire Needs His Approval

() The Axon 2 Inflection Point

() One Great Engineer Now Beats A Hundred

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