Adam Foroughi

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1,682 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 27 Apr

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 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 · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

I've now had three successful businesses, so I believe I could have a fourth.

But I really wanted to stay committed to the company and stay aligned with investors.

I think the other thing that people miss is that the CEO's job in a company, especially one that's gone from small to very, very large, is an incredibly lonely, very stressful role.

And if you talk to CEOs and founders, and I know you do fairly often, these jobs are brutal.

It's people these days are afraid to talk to me because I'm so busy.

They perceive, even though I'm not, I'm the same person I was 10 years ago, they don't come up to me anymore.

Or people inside the company or outside the company

If the stock is doing well, believe you're smarter than you are.

And if the stock is doing poorly, believe you're going to be so stressed out you might jump off a building.

Like, you don't understand, like, the things that are going on in the CEO's mind when you really haven't done that role yourself.

And very few people in the world

have built a business from small to very, very large and eventually taken to public.

So I say that to say it's a brutal job, it's lonely, it's stressful.

You almost certainly are going to have distraction from personal life.

I don't know many founders who have had that kind of success that have fantastic personal lives.

You end up distracted from your kids because you're always focused on work.

It consumes you.

And therefore, to then say the CEO should take less pay

is something that's quite unjust because it's not understanding of the role that the CEO has to absorb.

I would say at the low, low point in 22, I decided to make some changes because I did question the sacrifice I was making.

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