Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO of India’s first unicorn, InMobi, talks about entrepreneurship, cricket, and dealing with rejection
Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO of India’s first unicorn, InMobi, talks about entrepreneurship, cricket, and dealing with rejection
Our very first Maverick is a cricket fanatic who grew up playing gully cricket and first started up from a gully in suburban Mumbai, hoping to build a massive company that could be put on the world map.
His infectious positivity and boyish charms could easily bowl you over. Today he’s at the helm of a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers.
Founded in 2007 - Naveen Tewari, Co – founder and CEO of InMobi went on to set up India’s first homegrown unicorn that has a multinational presence with a global user base of 1.8 billion. From disrupting advertising on mobile devices to capturing screen zero with their latest product Glance, InMobi has emerged as a major force in the space of marketing, media and software, across the world.
About Naveen Tewari
The Founder of Glance is Naveen Tewari, easily one of the most recognisable faces in the Indian startup ecosystem. As the founder of the first unicorn in India, Naveen has provided credibility to the growing startup ecosystem in the country. An individual with perfect academic credentials of IIT and MBA from Harvard Business School, Naveen was an early entrant in the startup ecosystem in India, much before it became a popular buzzword. InMobi, the company that he founded way back in 2008, created all the right buzz with marquee investors like Softbank on its side. InMobi as a startup also competed with the likes of Google, in a David and Goliath story of sorts. At YourStory’s Techsparks 2019, Naveen stated that by 2025 his mission was to create a global technology company from India for the world.
