{"podcast":{"title":"The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch","slug":"twenty-minute-vc","podcast_index_feed_id":938150,"rss_url":"https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/2/b/a/d2ba673c1d134c2be55e3c100dce7605/WhatsApp_Image_2024-10-28_at_11.39.21.jpeg","author":"The Twenty Minute VC","episode_count":1462,"summary":"The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc"},"episode":{"title":"20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi","slug":"20vc-applovin-160bn-market-cap-5-48bn-revenue-10m-ebitda-per-head-why-the-best-do-not-need-mentorship-why-founders-should-not-angel-invest-why-kindness-in-business-will-slow-you-down-with-adam-foroughi","published_at":"2026-04-27T07:07:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc/20vc-applovin-160bn-market-cap-5-48bn-revenue-10m-ebitda-per-head-why-the-best-do-not-need-mentorship-why-founders-should-not-angel-invest-why-kindness-in-business-will-slow-you-down-with-adam-foroughi","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc","url":"https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/20vc-applovin-160bn-market-cap-548bn-revenue-10m-ebitda-per-head-why-the-best-do-not-need-mentorship-why-founders-should-not-angel-invest-why-kindness-in-business-will-slow-you-down-with-adam-foroughi","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thetwentyminutevc/Adam_Foroughi__AppLovin.mp3?dest-id=240976","summary":"Adam Foroughi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Applovin, one of the most underdiscussed but incredible businesses. Applovin has a market cap of $160BN, the company does $5.48BN in revenue and has an astonishing $10M EBITDA per head. The margins; 80%+. There is almost no other business in the world like it. AGENDA: 00:00 – Why Winning (Not Fear) Drives the Best Founders 04:30 – When Money Stops Mattering: The Real Founder Motivation 07:15 – $83M CEO Payday: The Truth Behind the Headlines 10:45 – The Hidden Cost of Being a CEO: What No One Tells You 13:00 – Down 92%: How Do You Not Lose Your Mind? 17:00 – Layoffs: AI Revolution or COVID Hangover? Will the Layoffs Work? 24:30 – Why Most Companies Can't Build a Culture of A-Players 29:30 – What % of Applovin Code is AI? What Will it Be in 5 Years Time? 33:30 – Building on OpenAI: Opportunity or Existential Risk? 40:00 – The Dark Side of Short Sellers & Market Manipulation 50:00 – Do Great Founders Doubt Themselves? 52:00 – TikTok, Meta & The Future of Recommendation Engines 53:30 – The Path to a $1 Trillion Company: What Needs to Happen? 56:00 – Stock Buybacks: How to Do Them and When They Go Wrong? 59:00 – Is the SaaS Model Breaking? What Happens Now?","meta_description":"Adam Foroughi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Applovin, one of the most underdiscussed but incredible businesses. Applovin has a market cap of $160BN, the com…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4846,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/twenty-minute-vc/episodes/20vc-applovin-160bn-market-cap-5-48bn-revenue-10m-ebitda-per-head-why-the-best-do-not-need-mentorship-why-founders-should-not-angel-invest-why-kindness-in-business-will-slow-you-down-with-adam-foroughi/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc/20vc-applovin-160bn-market-cap-5-48bn-revenue-10m-ebitda-per-head-why-the-best-do-not-need-mentorship-why-founders-should-not-angel-invest-why-kindness-in-business-will-slow-you-down-with-adam-foroughi.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}