SaaStr 687: Building a Global SaaS Empire: Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham on His Biggest Bets
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors - En podcast av SaaStr
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Freshworks is a successful public SaaS company that has a humble beginning in the small town of Chennai, India. Founder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham shares five big bets that paid off as he scaled this multi-product company. Listen to discover Mathrubootham’s key decisions in launching and scaling a company, which include: *Betting on inbound while going global *Hiring talent when talent is hard to find *Going multi-product early on *Layering a sales-led motion on top of a product-led motion *Betting on AI and the future before it arrives