Chapters
(00:00:00) The $6B Buyback That Made $60B
(00:02:15) Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount
(00:05:02) Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012
(00:09:00) From App Discovery To Ad Platform
(00:14:45) Beating Google's AdMob With Performance Marketing
(00:19:30) No Board For Six Years
(00:30:12) The China Deal That Almost Blew Up
(00:37:45) The Convertible Note Pivot And KKR
(00:46:30) Buying Gaming Studios To Get Data
(00:51:45) Losing Trust With Game Developers
(00:58:20) The 2022 Crash And How He Kept His Team
(01:02:00) Building An Hyper Competent & Efficient Company
(01:07:25) Why Every New Hire Needs His Approval
(01:19:06) The Axon 2 Inflection Point
(01:21:15) One Great Engineer Now Beats A Hundred
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