Tewari: Building something massive requires similar effort to building something moderately big
Naveen Tewari · He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari · Jul 3, 2026 · at 52:58
Naveen Tewari shares a key mental model on risk and ambition he learned from working with SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.
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“The effort required for doing something decently big to doing something magnanimously big is not that different.”
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