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"His TV broke. So he built a billion-dollar startup." In 2009, Girish Mathrubootham bought a TV. It broke during shipping. The company gave terrible service. He got angry ... and got an idea. He quit his job, started building a better customer support software from Chennai. That idea became Freshdesk (now Freshworks). In 2021, it became India’s first SaaS startup listed on NASDAQ, worth ₹10,000+ crore. All this… started with a broken TV.
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Meet Girish Mathrubootham, who left Zoho to build an 80,000 crore software giant. Despite being called a rickshaw puller due to a drop in grades, Girish worked his way up in HCL Cisco and Zoho. Inspired by Zendesk's price hike, he founded Freshdesk i
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Here’s how Girish Mathrubootham turned a broken TV into a $13 Billion dollar company, and how you can also turn simple events into billions. In 2010, Girish was VP of Product Management at ZOHO Corporation when a frustrating personal experience chan
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Do you know this person? If yes, what’s the most surprising lesson you’ve learned from his journey? If not, here’s a hint: He once got rejected over 100 times before his idea got funded. Today, he runs one of the most valuable companies in the worl
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