India, Sept. 23 -- Just moments after ringing the bell at Nasdaq and taking his company public, Freshworks cofounder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham has said that high-quality talent, culture and the desire to build a global B2B tech platform from India have been the three cornerstones of the company's journey from a startup to a publicly-listed $10 Bn SaaS giant. He added that the IPO, the first public listing by a B2B SaaS platform in the US, will be a turning point for the Indian startup ecosystem.

"When we started out as a small startup in Chennai, we didn't even dream of this moment. Our first big dream was to get to a million dollars revenue. So I think we have made a lot of progress increasing the size and audacity of our dreams over...