Adam Foroughi: Social Dinners and Drinks Prevent Workplace Resentment
Adam Foroughi · AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 27, 2026 · at 38:54
Adam Foroughi is the co-founder and CEO of AppLovin. He defends casual team socializing against the view that it is an inefficient waste of work time.
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“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 dinner, you have drinks, you get to bond, you sometimes lose the human side of things, and you sometimes get in a place where resentment can build and then things can become unproductive. When you remember that you're just a bunch of smart people in a room trying to figure shit out, and you really remember that at something like a dinner, at something like drinks, you end up creating, I think, productivity out of those moments.”
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