Forget Bengaluru or Pune. Zoho's Sridhar Vembu believes villages, small towns could be future of Indian ITSridhar Vembu believes rural India has abundant talent. He argues companies should invest in these areas. Vembu suggests starting with expe...
01 May, 2025, 09.13 AM IST
SaaS firm Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu gives Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi a tour of TenkasiVembu took to microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) to share a photograph of him with the Governor going around the campus in an elec...
29 Sep, 2023, 09.12 PM IST
IT billionaire says employees of his company don't need to be fluent in English for most jobsSridhar Vembu, the billionaire founder of Zoho was replying to a post from Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. "We can only make prog...
06 Apr, 2023, 01.06 PM IST
Focus on markets beyond G7 has helped Zoho weather storm: Sridhar VembuAccording to Vembu, India is the company's third-largest market and is set to outpace the European Union in the next three years to become ...
04 Apr, 2023, 06.11 AM IST
Loyalty vs layoff: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has a message for entrepreneursZoho CEO Sridhar Vembu believes that entrepreneurs can use the current job market uncertainty to earn employee loyalty. As the economy beco...
03 Apr, 2023, 05.50 PM IST
Zoho's 'transnational localism' is helping tide through the current disruptions in SaaS: Sridhar VembuVembu said that SaaS companies spend a lot on marketing and sales akin to the dot-com model where most of Yahoo's revenue came from selling...
03 Apr, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Zoho Desk goes past one-lakh customer markDeveloped in November 2016 by a core team of engineers and product managers who moved to the satellite office, Zoho Desk competes with over...
28 Dec, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Zoho plans to set up offices in 100 rural districts to tap into local talentZoho’s revenue from operations jumped over 22.3% to close at Rs 5,230 crore for FY21, according to ROC filings while it clocked a net profi...
12 Jul, 2022, 06.34 PM IST
Zoho arm to hire 1,000 by 2022, group to double revenue in four yearsThe Chennai-headquartered group said its headcount and revenue will double in the next four years even if it grows at the current rate.
19 May, 2022, 05.57 PM IST
Zoho’s Tier-2 centres script a return to rootsThe cloud-based business intelligence and analytics platform is the latest among Zoho’s product lines to be built by rural talent in India
21 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Zoho to replicate rural office model in Americas, UK, JapanPrivately held Zoho has a model of building offices with 20-30 member teams in rural areas
03 May, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
Zoho's Sridhar Vembu appointed to Doval-led National Security Advisory BoardVembu is one of the Padma Shri awardees announced by the government of India this year.
03 Feb, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
Zoho's large client wins may offset decline in SME business due to COVID-19“Up to 45% of our revenues come from the US – you can see immediately what it can account for us,” Sridhar Vembu, the founder and CEO of th...
30 Apr, 2020, 08.50 PM IST
Sridhar will talk on rural job creation, nothing more to it: Zoho on RSS eventThe technology entrepreneur, and an Accenture top executive, had come under fire on Twitter early this week after a digital poster announce...
10 Jan, 2020, 09.38 PM IST
Zoho to step up headcount at Tenkasi unit to 1,000 by 2019The company’s US business contributes 42% to the total revenue while 58% is from India and markets like China, Europe and Brazil.
15 Feb, 2019, 08.35 AM IST
Zoho bets big on finance software to drive growthThe Finance Plus software package is being marketed as an integrated software that will allow businesses to examine not just accounting, bu...
19 Apr, 2017, 05.56 PM IST
Zoho to hire 4,000 people in 3-4 years, bets on SMEsThe company has already invested about Rs 450 crore in its facility in Chennai and drawn up a total investment plan of Rs 3,000 crore to be...
27 Jul, 2016, 09.58 PM IST