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" Bengaluru's traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work. "

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" 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 technologists, we all write code. "

" We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet. "

" 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. "

" I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data. "

" InMobi will play a critical role in shaping the future. "

" 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. "

" Our business is strong and enjoys high margins. "

" For most people, hobbies are not something we can take up full-time. "

" Access to Internet and content should be free for users which can get accommodated by advertisements. "

" 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. "

" As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good. "

" Nasscom has a big mandate - a lot of things come under their umbrella. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not. "

" InMobi is passionate about pushing the limits of business and mobile technology. "

" PC Internet advertising and mobile advertising - there are some key differences. One, the ability to target is phenomenally high in the mobile space because the information... that one has about the kinds of things that you're doing on the phone is better. "

" We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning. "

" When we failed and pivoted our business from mKhoj to InMobi or when we did not get any trained people with the required skillsets, as we were the first in the industry, and on many such instances in our journey, we would think of giving up every other day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I realized that the journey of entrepreneurship can often be a lonely one. Not everyone wants to believe in or support your vision, and every entrepreneur faces this moment of truth. It's hard to walk away but harder to persevere. "

" Just do what you love. "

Do What You Love

" Team sports is the best for bonding. These sports lessons are also true for startups. You want to be at the top of every endeavour, but you win some and you lose some. As a team, however, you always pump each other up and move forward. "

" In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated. "

" 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. "

" I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things. "

" 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. "