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Just do what you love.
Capital never builds great products.
As technologists, we all write code.
Capital will follow where great talents go.
Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.
In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated.
InMobi will play a critical role in shaping the future.
As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.
Good people do fundamental work because they believe in the work.
For most people, hobbies are not something we can take up full-time.
Nasscom has a big mandate - a lot of things come under their umbrella.
I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.
Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.
A lot of coordinated approaches are required to make a global operation work.
I realized that if I had to work with others, I had to align with their vision.
InMobi is passionate about pushing the limits of business and mobile technology.
For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.
In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.
We knew we had to think global and think big. Most companies that are emerging don't do that.
In combining forces, InMobi will now be able to offer Amobee's clients greater ROI and reach.
I have the same breakfast I have been having for many years - oats with fruits and dry fruits.
After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best - the 'jugaadu'-best.
I always believe in backing up a team that is super passionate and loves to work with each other.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
Access to Internet and content should be free for users which can get accommodated by advertisements.
Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.
For a company to be successful, it's not just about ideas. It's also about luck. And everything else coming together.
Our offices across the globe may not be very similar in terms of the way they look, but they are very similar culturally.
Anything edgy won't see instant success. That's why one will have to learn to wait. You're going to see a lot of failures.
We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.
The Internet eco-system should be such that users should not pay for Internet connection, content, or anything that is basic.
Bengaluru's traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work.
Of the three largest Internet markets - the U.S., India, and China - you will increasingly see Indian and Chinese companies partner.
When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.
I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.
The world has many very smart people who are doing interesting and different things, and there is no better way to learn than to interact with them.
Amobee has an enviable track record of success supporting the world's leading brands with their cutting edge, end-to-end mobile advertising solution.
In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.
I don't consider my competition to be companies but entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is the freedom to take your own decisions, and that's what we offer.
As an entrepreneur, you're going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.
One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they're constantly restless, and they're constantly on the lookout for opportunities.
As an Indian company, to go outside India and motivate people, have them align to our vision, and get them excited about what an Indian company can do was a hard thing to pull off.
We were told that building a product company in India is impossible, as there wasn't enough talent available. But we survived, thrived, and grew despite a whole lot of frowns and thumbs down.
Frankly, as an entrepreneur, you can do only one thing and be a part of it, but through investing in different ventures, you can be a part of something new and what others are trying to build.
Advertising has always been about creating awareness. We started to question that logic. Discovery-led consumption is where we are headed. We are bringing window shopping to the mobile platform.
Bubbles are created when something positive is happening. People get over-enthusiastic about it and take the tide higher than it should go. The reality is bubbles are required to create an industry.
NestAway is a disruptive product creating a win-win opportunity, not just for direct stakeholders like owners and tenants but for the society at large by making cities safer, especially for young women.
In 2007, I was living in San Francisco. I came out of business school, and I was very keen on doing something with a small company. I felt that the market, in general, in mobile phones was just going to explode.
I am not a big fan of investors asking for revenues upfront. Investors seeking numbers are being too myopic. However, I personally believe in creating a product with clarity in mind on how one thinks revenues can trickle in.
One of the biggest motivation for me and my co-founder was to learn and see what is happening in the market, see what next generation of entrepreneurs are doing. This has been the biggest motivation to investing in start-ups.