Adam Foroughi
54 statements across 3 episodes · 14 bullish · 10 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2021 by Adam Foroughi · said 10 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
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Nov 29, 2021 positive
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Foroughi: Nearly all AppLovin acquisitions came from personal client relationships
“So a lot of our partnerships, I'd say probably pretty much every single one were from client relationships where we knew the executives. They personally knew me. There was already that foundation of trust and it was just say, Hey, let's work together.”
Nov 29, 2021 positive
Nov 29, 2021
Foroughi: High decision velocity yields better outcomes than strategic over-analysis
“By increasing the frequency and the pace, I'm able to process more. Therefore, my odds are better than someone who's overthinking, overanalyzing, or over communicating and strategizing about a thought process or decision.”
Nov 29, 2021 neutral
Foroughi spends eight months annually in quiet periods focusing on product
“So for eight months of the year, I actually have it nice. It's exactly the same as it was. I'm head of product. I'm thinking about the business. I'm focused on executing. And then for the four months of the year, I have the second job. It's to go out and reall…”
Nov 29, 2021
Foroughi: Aggression signals respect for executives, while politeness signals lost confidence
“It's sort of like, it's varied, there's no formula, but I'll say I'm very aggressive and hard with the people I respect the most, because I really want to put pressure on them to develop them and teach them the fastest. The more respectful and quiet I am towar…”
Nov 29, 2021
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Foroughi: Effective delegation requires total handoff without monitoring after trust is established
“And what makes me hand it off is when I see a similar mindset to me in someone, and I go, I want to get that person to be someone I can trust, someone I can grow, develop, mentor, to make just, in my mind, defined as great, and then I'll trust them wholehearte…”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Adam Foroughi: Custom Recommendation Models Outperform Frontier LLMs for Ad Delivery
“You can't just go defer to the large language model and say, hey, based on what you know about this user and the data I have available, what's the next ad to see? That wouldn't work as well as a custom model built for this purpose.”
Apr 27, 2026 bearish
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AppLovin Operates Without a COO, CMO, CRO, or Chief People Officer
“If you look at our exec team, we have CEO, CTO, CFO, and general counsel. We don't have a CRO. We don't have a COO. Go down the list of other C levels that people might have. We don't have a CMO. We don't have a chief people officer. We don't have any of these…”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Adam Foroughi: Companies Will Not Need Separate Product Managers and Engineers
“And so I do think the role of product should end up looking a lot like it does at our company over time is that either your product people become engineers or your engineers become product people, but you don't need both.”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Adam Foroughi: TikTok Recommendation Engine Is Phenomenal for Non-Social Engagement
“I would say when it comes to engagement, creating the ability for a social network to not need any social interaction and still be able to deliver you fantastic content, the TikTok recommendation algo is quite phenomenal.”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
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Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Adam Foroughi: AppLovin Employees Who Avoid AI Technology Will Be Fired
“If you avoid utilizing these technologies, you're not, and you're gonna get fired, and that's life, and so we demand that the people who are at the company are adopting these technologies rapidly to create more output, but we don't shy away from different diff…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Apr 27, 2026
Adam Foroughi: Public CEOs Who Claim They Ignore Stock Prices Are Unrealistic
“When you talk to some execs who are at public companies, they'll say they don't look at the stock price. It is, I can say I, 100% look at the stock price. Like it is very, very hard to run a public company and say, I'm just going to choose not to look at the s…”
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Adam Foroughi: Faster AI Code Deployment Will Temporarily Trigger More Security Breaches
“Because of how quickly these models are just getting exceptionally good, it's almost certain companies are going to be releasing code faster. When you release products faster, you ship fast, you break things, and because of that, you're going to have more secu…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Adam Foroughi: Social Dinners and Drinks Prevent Workplace Resentment
“What I've found is in the most productive moments in, with your best people, you get in heated debates, like yelling matches, and if you get really heated with someone and you go right back to let's just crank, and there's not moments where you go out to dinne…”
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Apr 27, 2026
AppLovin Shut Down Investor Relations to Buy Back Stock During 92% Crash
“So when we fell in 2022 one of the things we did on the investor relations side, you fall 92%, no one's buying your stock. We said, we're gonna buy our own shares, and we're gonna shut down investor relations, because what's the point? Why do I need to go to a…”
Apr 27, 2026
Adam Foroughi: Present Decisions Only Impact Outcomes 1 to 5 Years Later
“I feel like whatever is happening now is defined by the decisions we made in the past. And therefore, like, nothing that I do today is going to change an outcome in that 12 months. What I'm thinking today or trying to execute on today or starting to, like, res…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Adam Foroughi: Getting Drunk With Coworkers Often Produces the Best Ideas
“The other thing I found is when we go out and we drink and we start shooting the shit, really good ideas can come of that too. It's not that we're going out and with a bunch of coworkers and talking about baseball. We're going out with a bunch of coworkers and…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Adam Foroughi: Prioritizing Kindness Over Directness Wastes Time and Slows Progress
“If you're too kind and not as direct, not as aggressive, you're wasting time. And in a world where time is limited and you can't quantify the loss from sugarcoating things, I'd much rather be aggressive and rub some people the wrong way and surround myself wit…”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Apr 27, 2026 bearish
Adam Foroughi: Enterprise SaaS Market Sell-Off Is Not Over Yet
“So in a way, I would say not only is it fair because of the risks that exist, I'm not sure it's actually done yet. You know, again, I'm not a trader of businesses, but I do think we're going to go through material changes in the market, especially when it come…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Adam Foroughi: Business Communication Should Be Written or Video Recorded for AI
“I think you do have a loss in ability to feed that information in the model and show other people what you're doing in those in person. So what we tend to do is believe the vast, vast majority of communication needs to be written or through a video call.”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Adam Foroughi: Short-Seller Attacks Forced AppLovin to Step Up Investor Marketing
“The second piece that it did as a forcing function was it required us to go out to investors and the market and do more things about marketing the company and explaining the business. And so in a way it was like a rip off the bandaid moment for us when it come…”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
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Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Apr 27, 2026
Adam Foroughi: A-Players Will Not Stay in Bulk Alongside Lower Performers
“And so a players, what I've learned can exist, whether it is a back office role or an engineering role or front lines, revenue generating role, but a players won't exist in bulk. If you have a bunch of B C's and D's around them.”
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Jun 20, 2026 negative