The founder of AppLovin — now worth roughly $170B — was turned down by every top VC when he valued his company at $4M, then made it his personal mission to drive those VCs' competing portfolio companies out of business. His hiring philosophy is equally contrarian: he refuses to hire people from privilege with polished résumés, and instead recruits 'dysfunctional people that have something to prove' — like his #2, a high school dropout who lived in the office and is now worth $5–6B in stock. Hunger, scrappiness, and a chip on the shoulder aren't weaknesses to filter out — they're the raw material of compounding success.
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