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

aired Sep 20, 2026 · 23.0m
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Summary

Adam is probably the best founder no one's ever heard of.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, people, really, including: There's an ad platform hiding inside 100,000 mobile games and is quietly outperforming Facebook ads for e-commerce brands.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I think the fact that we were able to build a very big company without having VC funding at the early stage created this world where we just had to build quietly
  2. 02And what's really gotten investors excited about our company and just us excited about the opportunity that we have in front of us is that deep learning models have gotten so power
  3. 03And the economic value of a large language model and what it's doing in our society today is much greater than advertising
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