“The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur” Talks About How He Built Zoho Into A Bootstrapped Powerhouse – with Sridhar Vembu
“The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur” is what Forbes called Zoho’s co-founder, Sridhar Vembu. He’s become a little less unknown since that article came out, but when it bubbled to the top of Hacker News recently I read it I wanted more details about how he bootstrapped Zoho into a profitable online application provider.
So I invited him to Mixergy to tell us the story of how he built his company.
Sridhar Vembu is the co-founder of Zoho, Corp. The company is organized around 3 major divisions. Zoho.com provides a comprehensive suite of applications for businesses – from on-line productivity to CRM and custom applications. ManageEngine allows enterprise IT organizations better manage their networks, servers and infrastructure. WebNMS focuses on the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the network and telecom space.
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