# ‘You have to be willing to make those hard choices’: Freshworks CEO on crossing $1 billion in ARR with 30% fewer employees in the AI software age

- Source: Fortune | FORTUNE
- Published: 2026-11-03T21:15:00+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://fortune.com/2026/11/03/freshworks-1-billion-arr-dennis-woodside-ai-what-companies-stop-doing/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/you-have-to-be-willing-to-make-those-hard-choices-freshworks-ceo-on-cr-b2c4b1/

Freshworks killed “$5 million ideas” and moved early-career work to AI, Woodside told Fortune. It was like "saying to somebody that your baby's ugly."

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