# Lessons From India's First Unicorn Founder on Building Large Businesses | Naveen Tewari

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Podcast: [The Neon Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453)
Published: 2026-07-03T12:30:00+00:00
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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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