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Adam Foroughi

Net worth $21.7B

advertising technology · United States

Born
May 07, 1980
Age
46
Source
advertising technology
Residence
Truckee, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Adam Foroughi is the cofounder and CEO of AI-powered advertising technology company AppLovin.
  • Based in Palo Alto, California, AppLovin was founded in 2011 and went public in 2021. Foroughi owns around 11% of its shares.
  • Foroughi bootstrapped AppLovin for years without outside funding. KKR became its biggest backer with a $400 million investment in 2018.
  • Foroughi was born in Iran a year after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and immigrated to California as a child.
  • He became a derivatives trader after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, and started two marketing companies before AppLovin.

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