FreshWorks was born out of Zoho, yet the SAAS pioneers are fighting over alleged theft of confidential information.
Sources said that the allegations of employee poaching and data-stealing have been going on ever since Girish Mathrubootham, who was a Product Development manager at Zoho, left the company to start FreshWorks in 2001.
While in no way do I intend to demean a person who has given all Indian startups a new dream to live for, I wish our ecosystem evolves into healthier competition rather an ugly legal battles.