1409 $1.5B Freshworks To IPO: Growing 40% YoY, Passes $100M in ARR, $250M Raised, 150,000 Companies Using
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Girish Mathrubootham is the founder and CEO of Freshworks, one of the world’s fastest-growing SaaS product company, winning the Economic Times Startup of the Year in 2016, and the Business Standard Startup of the Year in 2017. Freshworks now has a suite of products for businesses worldwide - Freshdesk, Freshservice, Freshsales, Freshcaller, Freshteam, Freshchat and Freshmarketer.
Girish is part of the Product Council for NASSCOM, the trade association of Indian software companies, and actively works to promote and nurture software product companies. He has invested in several early-stage startups and is passionate about building a global product company. Having set the vision and direction for the company since inception, his focus on Freshworks’ values and its culture have been instrumental in taking the organization to where it is today.
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| 0:00.0 | I've had the fortune of meeting a lot of you guys at B2B SaaS conferences all around the world. |
| 0:05.1 | And one of my favorites is coming up in New York City, June 4th to 5th. |
| 0:10.1 | That is SaaS Doc East Coast. |
| 0:12.2 | Now, it's my favorite, and I can say that because I'm getting asked to speak at almost every |
| 0:16.1 | major SaaS conference because my data set is so large. |
| 0:19.5 | Nobody has anything like it. |
| 0:21.4 | And the reason SaaS Doc is my favorite is because it's the most curated. It's a large group of extremely |
| 0:26.8 | intelligent individuals. In fact, many CEOs I've had on the show will be at SaaS stock |
| 0:31.9 | East Coast on June 4th through 5th in New York, including many you guys have heard of, |
| 0:36.3 | like Rajee Thomas, CEO and founder |
| 0:38.2 | of Sprinkler, Daniel, CEO of Greenhouse, and Stacey Bishop, partner at scale venture partner. |
| 0:44.7 | So I hope to see you guys there. If you decide to come, I will get coffee with you, and I can get |
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| 1:04.9 | discount. That's L-A-T-K-A-2-0. And then shoot me a text if you decided to come so we can get coffee, 703-4-T-K-A-hifin two zero and then shoot me a text if you decide to come so we can get |
| 1:13.7 | coffee 703-431-2709 I hope to see you guys there fresh works the parent company |
| 1:21.7 | started in 2010 now over six products really focused on customer engagement across every |
| 1:27.4 | platform it all started |
| 1:28.2 | with a broken TV. He couldn't get a freaking insurance or refund on. He said, you know what, |
| 1:32.2 | I'm going to build this thing myself, make the system better. They've just passed 100 million |
| 1:35.3 | bucks in ARR going 30 to 40% year over year, about $250 million raised, looking at potentially |
| 1:41.0 | an IPO coming up here shortly, serving over 150,000 business logos on their |
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