Mathrubootham: Building company culture without in-office presence remains unsolved
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Girish Mathrubootham, founder and CEO of Freshworks, reflects on how COVID-19 and remote work disrupted culture building across scaling tech teams.
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“I did not know. I still don't know how to build culture when nobody's coming into the office.”
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