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Sri Ganesan

Co-founder & CEO, Rocketlane · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sri Ganesan is the co-founder and CEO of Rocketlane, a customer onboarding and professional services automation platform. He previously co-founded the messaging platform Konotor, which was acquired by Freshworks and evolved into Freshchat.

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1 prediction · 7 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sri argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Freshworks initially staffed all corporate functions with recent engineering graduates.
“He actually built the business off of initially really, you know, young fresh grads from different engineering colleges, and in specific, I think he went to, you know, one engineering school, kept going there every year to hire talent, and For every function, …”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 8:41 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale

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Everything Sri Ganesan said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Indian tech talent prefers cash compensation over startup equity.
“I think there's very few companies where people believe in equity. So if you are hiring someone who used to work at Freshworks, they're gonna ask you for more equity, less cash. If, you know, most other, if you're hiring talent from elsewhere, they don't under…”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 10:07 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Job candidates reneging on accepted offers remains common in India.
“In general, that's true that, you know, people may not join after accepting an offer from you in India. I think it, it's been called out a fair number of times on LinkedIn and so on. So I think the behavior is changing a bit.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 20:45 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Freshworks initially staffed all corporate functions with recent engineering graduates.
“He actually built the business off of initially really, you know, young fresh grads from different engineering colleges, and in specific, I think he went to, you know, one engineering school, kept going there every year to hire talent, and For every function, …”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 8:41 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
US software companies cannot afford to provide high-touch support for SMBs.
“A company in the US typically cannot afford to serve the SMB well in terms of like the hours of support you can offer.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 12:03 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Half of projects on Asana, Smartsheet, and Monday.com are customer-facing.
“Fun fact is, I think, 50% of the projects that run on, like, Smartsheets or Asana or Monday.com are actually customer-facing projects, but none of these were built, ground up for that use case.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 15:46 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Prediction Not checkable as stated
New service firms will emerge exclusively to deploy enterprise AI.
“There's going to be probably even companies that are built just like new services companies that all they do is deploy AI in the enterprise. Then I think we have a role over there as well as the solution they would use to accelerate those deployments.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 17:59 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
B2C startup founders require greater delusion than their B2B counterparts.
“I think the more delusional you are, the more you move towards B to C, because it takes even more to succeed.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 26:52 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Freshworks scaled from $18M to mid-$200M ARR in 4.5 years.
“When we got in end of 20 15, the company was, I think, eighteen million ARR. So, much smaller than today's, I don't know, it's six hundred million plus, I guess. And yeah, we were there for four and a half years seeing it all the way through to mid two hundred…”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 3:30 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Major SaaS companies like Postman, Chargebee, and Atlan originated in India.
“I'm sure a lot of people don't know that companies like Postman, or Chargebee, or Atlan, et cetera, were started in India, and then came to the US.”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 24:24 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Zoho pioneered the Indian B2B SaaS industry in the early 2000s.
“Zoho which, you know, the Freshworks founder used to work there for 10 years, was one of the very early B to B product companies from India though. So I think they, even as early as early 2000 had their cloud-based SaaS products coming to market, and that is w…”
Sri Ganesan Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 6:22 Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe L Apr 11, 2024 19m
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