'When You Take VC Funding, the Clock Often Starts Ticking' Entrepreneur Jack Smith on Exiting Vungle

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'When You Take VC Funding, the Clock Often Starts Ticking' Entrepreneur Jack Smith on Exiting Vungle
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Jack Smith founded Silent Break and Vungle, which sold for $800M. Here he is interviewed by HackerNoon Founder David Smooke.

Jack Smith is a recovering entrepreneur, now building “rehab for technology addiction” with Silent Break. He co-founded Vungle, which was a performance marketing platform specializing in in-app video advertisements for mobile devices. It sold to Blackstone for close to $800M in 2019. Jack was kind enough to spend some time to share his insights with the HackerNoon community. Pictured above at a recent silent retreat.

He also is very logical where he doesn't get caught up in certain things, almost like Charlie Munger, where they're like borderline autistic, where they don't experience certain human emotions in a good way…” A lot to unpack there.

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