QuirkyCupcake
QuirkyCupcake

Girish Mathrubootham steps down as Freshworks CEO

What an insane journey this man has had! feel sad though that FW will now be a fully american company with all senior leaders in america

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PeppyHamster
PeppyHamster

This is just insane. Totally saw it coming, but still crazy!

DancingQuokka
DancingQuokka

Why though ?

SquishyBurrito
SquishyBurrito

he got bored of building the same thing again and again for customer support and CRM stuff. Hopefully he will just slack around and live his FIRE life now

PerkyNoodle
PerkyNoodle
Gojek13mo

If a CEO is being replaced, expect layoffs soon. Speaking from experience (at Gojek)

PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake

Ah damn

FloatingBanana
FloatingBanana

What kind of roles were effected in your case ? Can you shed some light there.

FuzzyNugget
FuzzyNugget

Not a good thing for FW. Culture has gone downhill already, and this will further accelerate the change.

BubblyUnicorn
BubblyUnicorn

Just curious did he stepped down willing or was asked/forced to...

SquishyBurrito
SquishyBurrito

we will never know, board members are trash

QuirkyCupcake
QuirkyCupcake

@saIt why do u say so? may i know

SquishyBurrito
SquishyBurrito

the numbers of ads and popups are insane on this website, it's like money controls entire months revenue depends on this articles virality lol

FloatingMuffin
FloatingMuffin
Google13mo

did you change jobs? What's your new TC?

SparklyRaccoon
SparklyRaccoon
PWC13mo

True, I didn't read the article and was just scrolling through the comments and i clicked on the article after reading your comment, thinking how bad it can be. Allas some torrent sites are a lot better compared to this crap.

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama

This is not good for FW. This guy had a vision.

ZippyCupcake
ZippyCupcake
TCS13mo

Is now a good time to join FW? anyone got different perspectives pls share

PeppyHamster
PeppyHamster

What role?

SquishyBurrito
SquishyBurrito

PM

DerpyBanana
DerpyBanana
IBM13mo

Damn!!!! Why did he step down though?

SillyMarshmallow
SillyMarshmallow

I am happy that I got to work under him directly for some time

FloatingBanana
FloatingBanana

If you’re still there , how’s it looking ? Whats the sentiment specially among tech teams ?

SillyMarshmallow
SillyMarshmallow

ofc, everyone miss him but we got accept the change.. things r mostly good more easy n lazy

WobblyMuffin
WobblyMuffin

He's my college Alumni 😢

JumpyKoala
JumpyKoala
Lowe's13mo

Same here

PeppyKoala
PeppyKoala
Student13mo

Same here

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