AppLovin

13 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2021 by Furqan Rydhan · said 60 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about AppLovin, oldest first

May 12, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rydhan: AppLovin's blocked 2016 acquisition valued the company at $1.4B
“I think they put a 1.4 billion value. I think the terms are something like they're going to put in a billion dollars and the value would be at 1.4. They're going to buy a maturity of the company.”
Furqan Rydhan May 12, 2021 ▶ 7:55 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021
Assertion Contradicted
Rydhan: AppLovin's co-founders initially self-funded the company with $4M to $5M
“Them three put in the initial funding. I think it was like around four or five million bucks if I remember correctly, but it was a lot in the sense that it gave us many years of runway to work on whatever.”
Furqan Rydhan May 12, 2021 ▶ 15:09 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021
Assertion Supported
Rydhan: AppLovin's first iteration was a social feed of friends' apps
“AppLovin, when we started, was actually an app where you could see what games and apps other people were playing in your social network. It was like, kind of like a feed of app. That was the first iteration of AppLovin, and it was because we just wanted to see…”
Furqan Rydhan May 12, 2021 ▶ 19:23 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rydhan: Games represent about half of AppLovin's business
“When I looked at the S one and kind of like dug into it, it's like, I think it's like half the business now, you know, there's obviously details on how you determine where the business is, but I think it's like half the company”
Furqan Rydhan May 12, 2021 ▶ 12:55 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri: AppLovin acquired Machine Zone to build its gaming arm
“They bought machine zone, right? So they acquired a bunch of studios. They have their own studio. So they're almost more a gaming company than a mobile ad network now.”
Shaan Puri May 12, 2021 ▶ 10:26 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sam Parr: AppLovin is publicly traded at a $20B valuation
“Furcon co-founded a company that is currently publicly traded for twenty billion dollars.”
Sam Parr May 12, 2021 ▶ 6:59 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
May 12, 2021
Disclosure
Rydhan: Took a low salary and moved home for AppLovin equity
“And Adam gave me two options. He gave me a higher salary and a low stock. And A lower salary and a higher stock option. And I was like, I kind of just made the decision down to like, well, if I go with, you know, Adam, I need to take the low salary, move back …”
Furqan Rydhan May 12, 2021 ▶ 1:28:48 Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
Sep 8, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
AppLovin generates approximately $3B per year in revenue
“Three billion a year in revenue.”
Sam Parr Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 22:18 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
Sep 8, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
AppLovin's mobile gaming division generates $1B-$2B in annual revenue
“And so they built up this mobile gaming arm that I think does over a billion dollars a year in revenue. I think they did two billion on just the.”
Shaan Puri Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 22:53 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
Sep 8, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
AppLovin turned $4M of outside capital into $20B in equity value
“Like they've only, they only ever raised four million dollars and they took that four million of external capital. So they took, I think four million from the founders and four million from like strategic investors. And they turned that into basically like twe…”
Shaan Puri Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 22:02 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
Jan 24, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Ali: Blocked $1B Chinese buyout led to AppLovin's $30B public valuation
“He sold Apple oven to a Chinese company for a one billion dollars. And the Trump administration blocked the deal or the FTC blocked the deal. And instead of it being a billion dollar sale, the Chinese company invested a hundred million dollars into Apple Levin…”
Suleman "Suli" Ali Jan 24, 2023 ▶ 6:13 Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
Feb 5, 2024
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri: Furkan was AppLovin's ninth employee, not a co-founder
“So he joined the company before he was even Apple Oven. He was not one of the co-founders. He was just like a random engineer that they hired. They had like eight people. He was like person nine. Within a couple months, they were like, all right, this guy's th…”
Shaan Puri Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 22:40 How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig)
Nov 26, 2024 neutral
Insight
Rydhan: Delays between deciding and acting undermine startup execution
“It's like, you know, think, decide, act, and like how fast you run through that depends on like the moment you decide the delay on act is like usually a problem.”
Furqan Rydhan Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 1:04:32 $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
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