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Sam Yam: AdMob Acquired Adworld One Month Before Google Acquired AdMob

Sam Yam · Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam · Jan 11, 2021 · at 21:30

Sam Yam, co-founder of Patreon, explains the timeline of selling his early mobile monetization startup Adworld to AdMob in 2009.

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“It was a company called AdMob, and then literally the month afterwards, we were acquired into Google.”

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Sam Yam's startup Adworld was acquired by AdMob approximately one month before Google acquired AdMob.

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Assessment

Sam Yam's account accurately describes the sequence of events: his startup AdWhirl (mistranscribed as Adworld) was acquired by AdMob, which was subsequently acquired by Google. However, the exact timeline differed slightly from the offhand recollection of 'one month': TechCrunch reported AdMob's acquisition of AdWhirl on August 27, 2009, and Google announced its acquisition of AdMob on November 9, 2009—an elapsed interval of approximately 2.5 months (74 days) to the announcement, and roughly 9 months until the deal closed on May 27, 2010.

TechCrunch reported on August 27, 2009, that AdMob had acquired the assets of AdWhirl (founded by Sam Yam and Rahul Sonnad).
Google publicly announced its definitive agreement to acquire AdMob for $750 million on November 9, 2009, closing the transaction on May 27, 2010.
The actual elapsed time between the AdWhirl acquisition announcement and Google's AdMob acquisition announcement was approximately 2 months and 13 days.

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[1] tracxn.com [2] contrary.com [3] wikipedia.org [4] wikipedia.org [5] appdevelopermagazine.com [6] inc.com [7] wikipedia.org [8] ludwig.guru

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