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Tewari: InMobi 4x headcount produced zero products in a year
“My organization grew from 200 to 800 people in a year. I thought we would ship four X the products. We shipped nothing. Nothing.”
Tewari: InMobi's round kicked off mega venture deals in India
“So I think the large scale investment thesis kicked off probably after a round and that was a great thing.”
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.”
Masayoshi Son agreed to invest $200M in InMobi in 2011
“And, you know, Masa negotiates a little bit and says, I'll put in 200. And that was it.”
Tewari: InMobi employee attrition reached roughly 40% post-unicorn round
“My attrition before the round happened was, you know, very, very, very low. My attrition in the company after the round happened within two years, I don't know, like, 40%.”
InMobi raised Series A at ~$22M and Series B at $120M
“I know our series A was, I think some 20, twenty two million dollars of market or valuation. Series B was hundred and twenty million dollars.”
Aggarwal: InMobi is strategically migrating its cloud infrastructure from AWS to GCP
“They are migrating from AWS to GCP. Now that's the public news. And it's a strategic move by the company.”
Nath backed InMobi via Mumbai Angels while living in San Francisco
“And remember, I was a small check rider, you know, part of that round. So, ah, I think that vision and that the gumption and the passion to go out and make a difference. I think we backed that as much as just the idea itself, because all of us know that ideas …”