Furqan Rydhan
15 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2021 by Furqan Rydhan · said 23 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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May 12, 2021 neutral
Rydhan: Content creators are founders who cannot thrive in Big Tech
“I find creators really interesting because they're kind of an analogy to founders where, you know, I don't want to go work at a fan company. I mean, you know, I made it through Twitch, but it was not, it's not the right environment for me, right? Like it's not…”
May 12, 2021 positive
Rydhan: Neurosity's brain-computer interface triggers desktop actions from thoughts
“This device it can for sure detect when I'm focused, it can detect when I'm calm and different points, and I've programmed it to basically, like, when I have it connected to my computer, I can move my desktop around or, you know, I basically wanted to, like, s…”
May 12, 2021
Rydhan: NFT Labs created PAX protocol for digital loot boxes
“And so we, you know, as part of NFT Labs, we created this PAX protocol, which is a protocol to create kind of a, you know, like a little loot box pack where you can put in digital items and you could put in an image, a sound clip for like, let's say your guys'…”
May 12, 2021
May 12, 2021 bullish
May 12, 2021 bullish
May 12, 2021 bullish
Rydhan: Commodity hardware and ML unlock advanced hardware products
“In the hardware space, there's just this trend that I feel like I can't get out of my mind, which is, you know, commodity hardware, whether it's like a Raspberry Pi, kind of a simple device like that, or off the shelf gears and things like that, plus software …”
May 12, 2021 positive
May 12, 2021 bullish
Rydhan: Founders Inc is building a hardware and robotics lab in SF
“I'm building a hardware and robotics lab here in San Francisco as a part of F dot Inc. And, you know, the idea is software you can do in a coffee shop in a living room, but you can't really build any one of these, even off the shelf hardware products in your l…”
May 12, 2021
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…”
May 12, 2021 positive
May 12, 2021
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 …”
Sep 8, 2022 bullish
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…”
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Rydhan: Future billion-dollar companies will be built by 1 to 3 people
“I feel like we're going to get to a world where, and I think Sam Altman said this, which is like the one person doing dollar company, like this is happening. Like we're already experiencing another 10 X decrease in how many people you need and the abilities th…”