InMobi: The journey of India’s first unicorn

It is an open office where scores of employees in their 20s are busy on their computers. You walk through the office, the rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafts through, and go to a conference room whose name is Out of the Blue. Later, walking around the office, you are shown a partitioned area with sports facilities. There is even a cricket nets. No surprises here. Naveen Tewari, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, InMobi, is a cricket fan. He has played the game, still tries to play it whenever he gets the time, watches it on television and goes for IPL matches in Bengaluru.

You ask Naveen what would be the average of his team and he replies somewhere in the late 20s. Do you feel old amidst them? “I do,” he replies, “they tell me so also.” It is a completely open office, designed by the employees themselves, says Naveen. His philosophy is that the office should be designed by people who are going to be using it. “It is a place where you spend 70 per cent of your waking hours. So, you might as well come in and create it,” he says.