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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Prediction: Freshbworks IPO Coming Next Month? Founders Thinking in 2018

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

My name is Girish Mathrubootham and I am the Founder and CEO of Freshworks (previously known as Freshdesk). I am 36 years old, married and live with my wife and two boys in Chennai, India. This is the story of how I quit my comfortable job and launched my own startup. Hope you like it.

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So we announced that we crossed $100 million of ARR and our valuation for the last funding

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round was around $1.5 billion.

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When I started the company, it was not cool to raise.

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1:30.2

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Gyrish Matur Bhutam. He is the founder and CEO of a company

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called FreshWorks, one of the world's fastest growing SaaS product companies, winning the

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economic time startup up the year in 2016 and the business standard startup of the year in 2017.

1:44.8

FreshWorks now is a suite of products for businesses worldwide,

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