Sridhar Vembu is a co-founder of Zoho, a business software company whose origins lie in a small apartment near Chennai in the 1990s. Zoho describes product development as a craft, with small teams improving software through sustained experimentation and refinement.
The company’s account also links independence to investment in people and research. Its choices to avoid venture capital and a public listing have formed part of that approach. In 2005, Zoho began an education initiative intended to give students an alternative route into technology work. Its subsequent focus on smaller offices and rural employment extends the same interest in developing talent beyond conventional credentials and major technology centres.
Milestones
- 1990s - Zoho's company story traces its beginnings to an apartment near Chennai.
- 2005 - Zoho began its alternative education and training initiative.