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

There were two tolls that I saw that were being taken on my life.

One was my health was decaying.

And I felt like if I'm this stressed out where I'm not sleeping, I'm drinking eight cups of coffee a day, I'm losing, I mean, losing my hair, losing my fitness, just losing the things that allow me to focus.

If I don't reverse that, I'm never going to be in a place to be mentally sound to run the business.

And I felt like

As a CEO of a public company, I'm committing for the next 10, 20 years.

I need to be here a long time.

To do that, I needed my health.

So I stopped what I was doing and reset that.

The other piece was I felt like from my children, I drifted a little bit more distant because I wasn't paying attention to them.

And I think any any founder or anyone who works at a tech company that's always on knows this experience.

If they have kids, you hang out with your kids, but your mind is elsewhere, either that or you're on your phone.

So you're never really present.

And what I realized is like almost in every relationship in my life, I was never really present.

What I tried to do to change that is at least take small moments to feel like I was present.

And so small moments might be ten minutes at a time because I'm not going to be able to sit down and have hours at a time.

But if I gave myself 10 minutes at a time to hang out with one of my children or a couple of my children, I felt like, okay, now I'm actually committing to them to be 100% present.

And that was a change.

And the third change I made at the point in time was that I started introducing hobbies to myself.

So, for example, I started learning how to surf in the last year or two years.

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