Freshworks IPO has made 500 employees crorepatis, says CEO Girish Mathrubootham

Bengaluru | Chennai: India’s software-as-a-service sector has the potential to rival the country’s $194-billion IT services industry, according to Girish Mathrubootham, cofounder and chief executive of Freshworks Inc.— the first Indian SaaS startup to list on the Nasdaq.

In a conversation with ET’s Alnoor Peermohamed and Dia Rekhi, Mathrubootham said that apart from opening the door for other Indian SaaS firms to go public, the Freshworks IPO has created a lot of wealth for his employees. Over 500 staff have become crorepatis, 69 of them under the age of 30, he said.