The young Indian who's taking on Google and Facebook

October 20, 2015 10:11

"I am a very proud Indian and I want to see our country succeed," says Naveen Tewari, chief executive of mobile advertising giant InMobi.

"I thought if I could do something from here that can be successful, maybe I'll have a small role in creating great companies out of India that can compete with the iconic companies in Silicon Valley."

It's fair to say that eight years after starting the company with three co-graduates from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Tewari has done just that.

Today InMobi, based in Bengaluru, is the third largest player in the fast-growing mobile advertising industry, with only Facebook and Google outstripping it.

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