Apple, Google, TikTok, and Facebook All Make Billions Off Your Time. This $0.52 Pre-IPO ‘Mystery Disruptor’ Quietly Flips the Script — And Pays You

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Almost every major Big Tech company you interact with daily has the same business model: Monetize your attention.
Apple takes 30 percent of every dollar spent in the App Store. Google built a $2 trillion empire on selling your search behavior to advertisers. Meta runs the largest behavioral advertising operation in human history. TikTok keeps users on its app for an average of 95 minutes a day and converts that time into ad revenue. Amazon has built dozens of subtle attention-extraction mechanisms throughout its retail and Prime ecosystem.
Globally, humans spend 4 trillion hours per year on smartphones. The current beneficiaries of that attention are large publicly traded companies that have grown trillion-dollar empires off your data and attention. The user receives the app, the service, or the entertainment. The economic benefits flow entirely upstream.
Consumers aren’t getting a fair deal, and they know that. But they’re limited in their ability to change that.

Then, in 2017, a mobile phone startup set out to do the impossible: take on those same trillion-dollar giants while reversing that trend and giving everyday consumers an option to make money off of what’s rightfully theirs.

The resulting momentum was eye-watering. They ranked as Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company in North America for 2023 with 32,821% growth, and things haven’t slowed down since:

• $115 million in lifetime revenue
• $11.8 million in 2025 EBITDA
• 490 million users across their ecosystem
• 170 active countries, with 75 percent of beta users international
• Over 2 million five-star user reviews
• The EarnPhone 2 sold out at Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and Amazon

The EarnPhone pays its users for time spent on the device. Listening to music. Playing games. watching videos. Charging the phone. Taking surveys. Browsing the web. Tracking fitness. To date, Mode users have collectively earned and saved over $1 billion through the platform. Some users have won prize pools as large as $30,000.

Pre-IPO shares are $0.52. The NASDAQ ticker $MODE has been reserved.

The business case for a model that pays users back is more credible than it sounds.
When users earn money from time on a device, they spend more time on that device. EarnPhone users average more than 100 hours per month on the platform, earn 2.5 times more income than EarnApp-only users, and triple the retention rate. Mode then converts that engagement into traditional ad revenue, subscription revenue through the Mode Earn Club, and licensing revenue by selling EarnOS to other manufacturers.
The economics work because Mode shares the revenue with the user. The model is structurally similar to Spotify paying artists from streaming dollars, except in this case the asset is not music. The asset is the user's attention, and the revenue split makes the platform more durable, more sticky, and more globally distributed than any extraction-only model could be.

Over 59,000 investors have already participated, contributing more than $71 million in capital. Adam Carolla, Kevin Harrington of Shark Tank, and CNBC contributor Jon Najarian have invested. The senior team includes alumni from Microsoft, Intel, Google, and Goldman Sachs.
Big Tech has spent two decades building a model where every minute on your phone makes someone else richer.
Mode is the first company at scale to build a phone where every minute pays you back.

And, for a limited time, investors can actually claim a stake in the company while it’s still private. It’s giving the same people who fueled that incredible growth, everyday men and women, the ability to not just earn money from their own time and data, but also invest in the company, making it happen. So, just by interacting with the ecosystem, they earn money, and their portfolio benefits. It’s the same set of aligned incentives that helped get them to where they are now. 
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Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 18 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.

The Deloitte rankings are based on submitted applications and public company database research, with winners selected based on their fiscal-year revenue growth percentage over a three-year period.

Share price is set by the company. Mode cumulative revenue includes full year revenue of businesses acquired in 2025. Mode 2025 EBITDA includes full year EBITDA of businesses acquired in 2025.