All In : Memoirs of the Freshworks Founder

When my turn came I tossed aside the script. I stepped on to the stage not as a polished founder but as a storyteller. 'I'm thirty-six years old' I began letting the silence settle. 'I have two kids and just one wife.' Laughter rippled through the room breaking the tension. I continued drawing them into my world. 'In my previous job I drove a Honda Civic. Life was comfortable predictable. Then I launched a start-up. Now I drive a Ford Figo hatchback.'In 2010 Girish Mathrubootham left a cushy well-paying job and founded Freshworks (then Freshdesk) to create a better way to service customers. What began as a single product focused on customer service is now a company that operates in thirteen global locations to deliver a comprehensive suite of products to more than 70000 clients worldwide.In All In Girish tells us the incredible story of his life: from growing up in Trichy the temple town of Tamil Nadu to finding refuge in rebellion as a troubled teenager and eventually arriving in Chennai after his engineering degree. For Girish then with limited resources and money Chennai wasn't about success-it was about surviving. But not only did he survive he also created one of the fastest-growing product companies in the world.Candid and forthright in this book Girish unveils a rare dimension of himself opening up about his early entrepreneurial failures the challenges of being a software engineer in the US and the learnings he took from mentors like Kumar Vembu at Zoho. For all dreamers and aspiring entrepreneurs All In is a window to a new world of achievements.