Girish Mathrubootham
- Executive Chairman & Founder at Freshworks
GetLatka interview
How Freshworks Hit $100M ARR and 150,000 Business Customers in 2018 (Interview with Executive Chairman & Founder Girish Mathrubootham)
Girish Mathrubootham (Executive Chairman & Founder of Freshworks) spoke to Nathan Latka on July 21, 2018.
Freshworks figures from the interview
- ARR
- $100M
- Valuation
- $1.5B
- Customers
- 150,000 businesses
- Total Funding
- $250M
- Team Size
- 1,500 employees
“Yeah, so we started the company in October 2010, and at that time we started with only one product, Freshdesk.”
“I sensed that there was a paradigm shift happening in the world of customer support.”
“So we announced that we crossed $100,000,000 of ARR and our valuation for the last funding round was around $1,500,000,000”
Bio
Girish Mathrubootham founded Freshdesk in 2010, and as the CEO, has been setting the vision and direction for the company since inception. Prior to founding Freshdesk, Girish was the VP of Product Management at ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp, where he was responsible for setting worldwide product strategy
Company
Freshworks
San Mateo, United States · Founded 2010
- Revenue
- $838.8M
- Funding
- $1.5B
- Team size
- 8.6K
- Customers
- 150K