RE-IMAGINING PEOPLE AND CULTURE

- @Mohitsax CTO & Founder

What is innovation?

The ability to see things beyond the paradigm of success and failure

and relating progress to a larger cause is innovation

An act of ordinary people that causes extraordinary

disruption in any field is innovation

The grass-root movement that energize the entire group to

move beyond status-quo and do things that matter and have

higher impact is innovation

But innovation can't be done in isolation

Innovation is not necessarily doing something new

Innovation is > an ability to turn problems into

opportunity>to create an environment of free thinking

that thrives on great ideas> to bring people out of their shells and set

them free to dream and pursue it

But we did not know this when we started 8 years ago

When we started

People advised against it

We went Global anyway

People said start at west

We made products in India

We kept disrupting and pushing the envelope

We scaled massively

Grew from a handful to>1000

And suddenly

People

Prod

uctiv

ity

People

Prod

uctiv

ity

We Stopped Growing

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EntrepreneurshipRisk Taking

Thinking BigPassion

Wall vs Reality

Threw out ‘archaic’ thinking

1) Don’t manage: Just focus on growing people

Threw out Performance management system

Started paying 100% bonus

Stopped ranking and rating people

2) 1% vs. 99%

Travel Policy: Travel if it were your own money

Reimbursement policy: No pre and post approvals

Leaves: No pre and post approvals till 6 days

3) Realize your people are great,

learn to trust them

Trust that people inside are better than people

outside“Live your Potential”

No approvals required

30% of our positions are filled through “Live Your

Potential”

20% InMobians have applied for “Live Your

Potential”

People like to stretch “Bridge Assignments”

15% InMobians have taken bridge assignments

Bet @ 60%

Experience

Capa

bilit

y Over 90% Failure

Leap of faith

90% Success

Learn what you what to learn

4) Beyond employee and work: Build lasting

relationships

InMobi family is not just 1000 but >3000

Summer Camps for kids at InMobi office

Cats and Dogs

Kids @ office

Promote Entrepreneurship

SlideRule Oliveboard Globevestor PickYourTrail

Housify Kritter Allchemist Fairket

English Dost Galleri5 Moneysights Mobobeat

Credibase Shifter.in Do SelectAnd many more …

InMobi Mafia: 40+ Startups

Boomerang: We welcome our people back with

open arms

We love failed entrepreneurs

5) Workspace

Small is big

Innovative workspace with no cabins

Attracting great talent

Disruption in HR and Culture led to disruption at multiple

levels

Hadoop contribution

Falcon, Conduit, Lens, Kinobi, Cito engine

Disruption in Engineering / Technology

A Revolutionary Discovery Platform

from InMobi

Disruption in Product

Our Culture became Biggest Differentiator

It started to make ripples

Culture was always there.

But now we’re taking it to the next

orbit..

Originates from the Turkish word Hayal

which means Imagination

Originates from the Sanskrit word

Awirodhin which means not being out of

harmony with (allowing for creative tension)

Originates from Latin work Opus

which means Action

Convergence of three words that form the foundation of our culture

Power of being Open

YaWiO went open source

InMobi runs on YaWiO

Disruptive companies will run on YaWiO

India needs YaWiO