Don’t you have curiosity, vision, imagination to deploy $400 million: Zoho’s Vembu on Freshworks layoffs
Shareholders come last; customers, employees first, says Sridhar Vembu on why prefers to be a private company.
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George Soros has stakes in Indian startups, owns 2.26 mn shares of Freshworks
The nonagenarian investor, besides holding 1% in Chennai-based firm, co-owns an early-stage impact fund
“Designed products not for Fortune 500, but Fortune 5 million”
“Customers love our products because they are for the service engineer, the IT or sales person. People who use the software help us get better. We have 52,000 customers in over 120 countries.”
Deals of the week
Freshworks became the newest entrant to India’s unicorn club; Swiggy scoops up on-demand delivery platform Scootsy.
Freshworks is now a unicorn
After raising $100 million in a fresh round of funding, Freshworks joins the ranks of private companies valued at a billion or more.
