ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: “If it works in India, it can work in 40–50% of the world”At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, MeitY Startup Hub CEO Dr. Panneerselvam Madanagopal unpacked India’s AI strategy, from sovereign guard...
26 Feb, 2026, 04.17 PM IST
'If companies can't bring in best people, they will go where the talent is'India is now one of Deel's most critical markets, both as a talent source and as an operating base. Bouaziz said Deel employs more than 1,0...
22 Dec, 2025, 04.55 PM IST
'Like secret rebels and secret lovers': On privacy, Sridhar Vembu says Zoho won't sell your private data but have to comply with lawsZoho CEO Sridhar Vembu detailed the company's privacy approach, categorizing it into protecting secrets, avoiding data misuse for ads, and ...
08 Oct, 2025, 10.53 AM IST
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu urges IT workers not to be saddened by new H-1B visa rule: 'Do not live in fear'Following the US's H-1B visa fee hike, Zoho's Sridhar Vembu encourages Indian IT professionals to view this as an opportunity to return hom...
22 Sep, 2025, 11.13 PM IST
'Study China like a diligent student not American B-schools': Zoho's Sridhar Vembu says Indian intellectuals 'teaching nonsense'Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu urges India to emulate China's industrial transformation, criticizing the dominance of American business school ...
17 Jul, 2025, 10.57 AM IST
Zoho's Rs 50,000 crore founder has a unique solution to India's traffic problems, suggests 'optimal city size'Zoho's Sridhar Vembu proposes a radical shift in India's urban planning, advocating for massive public transportation investments to combat...
05 Jul, 2025, 12.18 PM IST
Money can’t buy everything: Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu says financialism is creating a generation without real skillsZoho's Sridhar Vembu cautions against modern economic thinking, asserting it undervalues essential skill development. He argues that over-r...
11 Apr, 2025, 01.07 PM IST
Rs 50,000 crore IITian left America for his Tamil Nadu village life and sunset there. Netizens say, ‘Beware of leopards’Sridhar Vembu, founder of Zoho Corporation, relocated to rural Tamil Nadu to champion a decentralized economic development model. By offeri...
01 Apr, 2025, 09.25 AM IST
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu's playtime with butterflies and SP Balasubrahmanyam song in background, make netizens nostalgicZoho CEO Sridhar Vembu posted a video of himself playing with butterflies. The video, set to a classic Tamil song, touched many netizens, e...
28 Oct, 2024, 12.34 PM IST
How India’s SaaS sector is upending the legacy business model by remote marketingIndian SaaS companies have always used digital marketing to reach out to customers as their primary customer base has been largely overseas.
09 May, 2021, 08.58 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
Spocto CTO's simple fitness regime: Meditation, yoga, intermittent fasting and a glass of wineThe lockdown taught Puja Srivastava that home-cooked food can tantalise our taste buds.
02 Sep, 2020, 03.40 PM IST
What will happen to the ride-hailing business model? LinkedIn co-founder Chris Yeh answersTOI spoke to Yeh, who is also an investor now, during his recent visit to India about where the blitzscaling philosophy works and where it ...
08 Mar, 2020, 04.06 PM IST
Kerala to host Asia's largest startup conclave on April 6, 7Startups, investors, academicians and industry leaders will attend the event, expected to attract 2,000 participants, that will see at leas...
30 Mar, 2018, 08.05 PM IST
How adopting to entrepreneurial approach has helped Atul Satija achieve scale and attract big investorsAt one point he was heading the mobile business for Google in the Japan and Asia Pacific region. In December 2010 he joined InMobi, which w...
05 May, 2017, 01.23 AM IST
Software products firm Zoho invests $10 million in five startupsZoho, which builds products for enterprise data management and integration, will find complementing value in these investments, chief execu...
06 Jan, 2017, 09.23 AM IST
First generation business siblings discover magic of working together and making success out of itTechnology ventures Directi and Quick Heal Technologies are also founded and run by siblings. The Turakhia brothers — Bhavin and Divyank — ...
01 Oct, 2014, 03.19 PM IST