Tewari: InMobi's round kicked off mega venture deals in India
Naveen Tewari · He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari · Jul 3, 2026 · at 53:55
Naveen Tewari reflects on how SoftBank's $200 million investment into InMobi in 2011 altered the Indian venture capital ecosystem.
0:00 / 0:07exact quote · 7.8s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“So I think the large scale investment thesis kicked off probably after a round and that was a great thing.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Naveen Tewari
Tewari: Consumers will not pay for artificial intelligence
“So we actually believe that artificial intelligence will not be something that consumers will pay for.”
Tewari: Building something massive requires similar effort to building something moderately big
“The effort required for doing something decently big to doing something magnanimously big is not that different.”
Tewari: Founding teams form around trust rather than complementary skills
“The core of that was not key. Oh, he has a different skill set and somebody else. It's trust. And that, you know, that is how these things come together.”
Tewari: Rigid logical analysis disqualifies someone from being a real entrepreneur
“The, if you're really logical about things, you're not an entrepreneur. Yeah. If you are like one of those who's, you know, doing this SWOT analysis, or doing a two by two, and you know, and analyzing and paralyzing, you're not an entrepreneur. Because an entr…”