The answer would be—all of them. By believing his employees, fostering fearless experimentation based on hard data, the CEO of Freshworks has taken a small outfit from a nondescript Chennai suburb to a $400 million revenue Nasdaq-listed Silicon Valley company
Speed and velocity are never far from Girish Mathrubootham’s mind. If he could grow Freshworks as fast as he could drive his Bentley Flying Spur W12—626 bhp, 0-100 kmph in 3.8 seconds—he probably would.
But talk to him today, and there is a more measured exterior of the CEO of a public company that is in a dynamic balance with the hands-on product manager inner child. And his comments reflect the newly minted public status of India’s first Nasdaq-listed SaaS (software-as-a-service) company, albeit headquartered in Silicon Valley.
(This story appears in the 08 April, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)