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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 47Adam Foroughi 35Rory O'Driscoll 4Jason Lemkin 4Cliff Weitzman 2George Arison 1Eddie Vivas 1

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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:04 Harry Stebbings I, I tweeted after a show with Adam at Ablovin, uh, no great CEO that I've met, and it's true, loves HR.

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 7 mentions

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 27, 2026 · 48 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings There is no company on the planet with numbers like AppLovin.
  • ▶ 3:12 Adam Foroughi So I had reached the baseline before I started this business. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:40 Adam Foroughi We, when we went public, we went public in 21. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:26 Adam Foroughi All people who are doers, who are really high output, I don't dislike any role, um, because it fits our culture, and every part of that comes together to build the business, but it's like, as an example, if you look at our exec team, we… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:26 Adam Foroughi So, we, we've given roughly the same amount of stock, um, every year in terms of absolute amount. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:37 Adam Foroughi I mean, our business is pretty simple, so I don't know that we ever optimized to something that turned out to be wrong, because we've always optimized to the same thing. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:15 Harry Stebbings How many people will Applovin have in five years?
  • ▶ 41:55 Adam Foroughi I ran, it was almost like all roads of the company went up to me, and when we, we fell and I realized I'm not making great decisions for the business, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:19 Harry Stebbings Short sellers have come after you like multiple times now. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:58 Adam Foroughi And for me, my goal in life is to make my company as, as good as it can possibly be three years from now, five years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:09 Harry Stebbings The advertising business that is most at risk from app loving in the next three years is? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:26 Adam Foroughi Look, maybe kindness is like in, in those dark moments, whether it's my wife, close friend, people checking in on me, but the reason I say it's a weird one is like, we don't tend to push the word kindness around, um, very often at, at the…

SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:55 unnamed speaker One is Applovin's, one Applovin's amazing business. 6 times in the scene

Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 55:47 Jason Lemkin Let's all put a bunch of money into Apple oven and the trade desk right now.
  • ▶ 57:00 Rory O'Driscoll And then there's helping buy the paid part, which is what AppLoving and TradeDesk do. 4 times in the scene

Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:53 unnamed speaker Okay. 3 times in the scene

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:05 George Arison Meaning we use networks, um, like Upfolio or Google, et cetera, to, to source those ads.

20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated Apr 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Eddie's also a stellar angel investor, with a portfolio including the likes of Telegram, Truebill, Applovin, and Dollar Shave Club, among others.
  • ▶ 4:58 Eddie Vivas And then another one was called Applovin, where my brother and my co-founder Adam Fergie went to go focus on.

20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth Nov 29, 2021 · 25 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Adam is the co-founder and CEO at AppLovin, the company that allows developers to market, monetize, analyze, and publish their apps. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:32 Harry Stebbings But that's enough from me, so now I'm so excited to hand over to Adam Ferrogi, co-founder and CEO at AppLovin.
  • ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings It will be great, but I want to start with some context, because we look at AppLovin today, and it's this kind of real behemoth, actually. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:09 Adam Foroughi I mean, this one's gotten a lot bigger, obviously, than my past ones. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:32 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of like the strategic direction of the company, it's kind of transitioned over time, and I'm going to bastardize it and get in trouble for this, so I always get in trouble, but you know, if you think about it in the… 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:31 Adam Foroughi One single company like a Facebook, a Google, an app webinar, a Unity can't monetize their audience as well as the marketplace can. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:19 Harry Stebbings Okay, what's the hardest element of your role with AppLovin today? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:37 Harry Stebbings I love the energy, the positivity, such a great conversation, and some very exciting times ahead for app loving.
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