Lessons From India's First Unicorn Founder on Building Large Businesses | Naveen Tewari
About this episode
Naveen Tewari shares his journey of building two unicorns, starting with InMobi and the challenges he faced in securing funding.
Most founders build one unicorn. Naveen Tewari built two. InMobi started with a simple bet: mobile would become the world's most important computing platform, and advertising could make it free for everyone. Every Indian VC said no. Naveen flew to San Francisco on a maxed-out credit card and returned with a $7 million round from Kleiner Perkins and Ram Shriram. Later came a $200 million investment from Masayoshi Son. Overnight, InMobi became India's first unicorn. Then he did it again...
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