Sep 2023

31m 9s

SaaStr 687: Building a Global SaaS Empir...

About this episode

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

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