24 Oct Built to Sell: The Surprising Truth of a 9-Figure Exit — and How Not to Lose $23 Million
If you’ve ever noticed those ads inside a mobile game, you have Zain Jaffer to thank. He co-founded Vungle and helped popularize rewarded video ads—the ones that revive your character or hand you in-app currency after you watch.
In this Built to Sell Radio episode, Zain explains how he rode the smartphone wave to a $780M all-cash exit to Blackstone—and why he personally took home more than $100M. Then he gets candid about what came next.
You discover how to:
Decode funding jargon that actually matters: convertible notes vs. SAFEs vs. venture debt warrants (and who benefits).
Avoid the post-exit trap: the $13M real-estate partner scam and the $10M short he wishes he’d never placed.
Protect relationships after a windfall: boundaries, not bravado—why flaunting wealth invites problems.
Rethink “generational wealth”: why he’s steering most of his net worth to a foundation and leaving kids enough to do anything—not enough to do nothing.
