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Zain Jaffer: Just to set the context, Vungle was recently acquired by a private equity group called Blackstone for $780 million all cash. The transactions closed towards the end of 2019. At that point, we started a company called Vungle and were producing video ads. We didn’t know what to do with these video ads.

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