2 INDEXED REFERENCES2025–20262 SHOWN FREE
Departures, sales and handovers by the founding promoter.
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2026 · The Founder Nation
Girish Mathrubootham: How He Built Freshworks into a Global SaaS Company — The Founder Nation
Mathrubootham's career arc — Zoho (2001), Freshdesk founding (2010), rename to Freshworks (2017), Nasdaq listing (2021), CEO-to-chairman transition (May 2024), full retirement (December 2025), focus on Together Fund (2026) — is itself a template for the staged founder-exit playbook now recommended to Indian SaaS founders thinking through succession.
2025 · The Economic Times
Girish Mathrubootham to exit Freshworks, 15 years after founding the SaaS major — Economic Times
On 1 December 2025 Mathrubootham formally stepped down as executive chairman of Freshworks, closing a fifteen-year chapter that began in Chennai in 2010 and ended with the firm as a Nasdaq-listed global SaaS business — an unusually clean handoff in an Indian context where founders often linger in operational roles.
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