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by sridharvembu 8y ago
(Disclosure: Zoho CEO here) Have you looked at Zoho Sprints? https://www.zoho.com/sprints/
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by sridharvembu 9y ago
Zoho CEO here. Please take a look at our Workplace suite (Mail, Cliq, Connect, Docs & Office suite - collaboration and productivity) and judge it for yourself. Our Writer (word processor) and Show (presentation) have had major upgrades
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by sridharvembu 10y ago
(Zoho CEO here) Thanks for the mention, but we are not yet at a billion dollars - we wish we were, though we are gaining on that goal :) We are bootstrapped like MailChimp, have never taken any venture capital, and we won't. We have fo
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by sridharvembu 10y ago
(Zoho CEO here) We apologize for letting you down last year. We had a string of DDOS attacks that coincided with a flooding event, that made it difficult to restore services quickly. We have made substantial investments in the past year, in
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by sridharvembu 10y ago
(Zoho CEO here) I am sorry to hear this. If you can email me your issue I will have it taken care of. svembu at Zoho dot com.
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
Are you working on compilers and runtimes? If you are interested in doing this, please shoot me an email svembu at zoho
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
(Zoho CEO here) My analysis of financial bubbles informs how we operate in Zoho. I believe the Greenspan-Bernanke-Yellen era will go down in history as one of the biggest bubbles the world has ever seen. The economy is now fully addicted to
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
To be clear, there are extremely few Indians who hold any kind of grudge about the British. On the contrary, the English language is more popular than ever, 60 years after the British left. History is full of injustices. I don't see wh
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
(Zoho CEO here) Don't worry, we will continue the free!
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
I had a short debate with pg a while ago on HN, where I said something to the effect "Finance has created far more wealth in recent years than technology or entrepreneurship". I don't think that trend is good for the economy
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The Highest Earning Hedge-Fund Managers of the Past Year(institutionalinvestorsalpha.com)
2 points by sridharvembu 12y ago|1 comments
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by sridharvembu 12y ago
LinkedIn seems to be changing, and I am not sure for the better. Recently they stopped access to a whole bunch of CRM players to LinkedIn API. Only Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics are allowed now. http://www.zdnet.com/link
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Intuit lobbies against small businesses(zoho.com)
2 points by sridharvembu 12y ago|0 comments
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
I have to disagree with the "can easily tell within ten minutes if someone cannot pass muster" part. Interviewing is hard. We tend to make such snap judgments but those judgments reflect our own biases. I have come to believe over
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
I think of most VCs as "money brokers" or "money salesmen" rather than as capitalists or investors. A company taking in $100 million in venture capital is basically enabling the VC partner(s) to earn $2 million a year an
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
There is evolving tentative suggestion that autism may be an auto-immune disease: http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2013/large-study-link... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/155468
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
In purely economic terms, China has performed a fascinating ongoing experiment. The Party looked at the "end state" of an industrialized, prosperous middle-class nation and then decided to will that end state into existence. In th
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Your point on "slightly below" Turning machines caught my attention - exactly the same terminology I have used. I want as many proofs (assertions) as possible about code, and Rice's Theorem is a problem, so slightly below Tur
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Your comment captures the ground reality well. Rapid urbanization combined with a weak, ineffectual state is bringing out the worst in young men moving into cities for work.
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
As an Indian, this makes me really really ashamed and sad and angry. I would apologize to her as an Indian. To understand what is going on in Indian society, I recommend this book by Naipaul, written over 20 years ago, but still very releva
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Grades Measure Test-Taking Skills and Interviews Measure Interviewing Skills(zoho.com)
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
We believe in fair degree of autonomy and tight-knit teams. I won't call it "open allocation" because we encourage people to stick to a particular work for a reasonable period to really excel at it (experience being the best
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
No I didn't think you accused us of that. I merely responded what we would do as a rent seeker :) As for the original accusations, "develop a thick skin" is my attitude, so you saw I never bothered to respond.
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
If your thesis is correct, the optimal strategy for us would be to sell when the prices are very high (like they are now) i.e collect the next 50 years of "rent" right now, because it is so readily available. Instead, we continual
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
We are listening. We take all the criticism to heart. We are focused on UX and quality. You will see a transformation.
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
I would apologize to your team, and I would circulate this thread internally first. Second, I would review why we got this wrong. We went through a major redesign in CRM after that forum post, and the user experience got much better (our CR
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Your point is fair - there is no point in building if we don't build well. We are focused on it - and it does take a while for software to mature and become world-class, particularly complex applications with huge data models (lots of
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
We simply enjoy writing software, and as long as customers keep feeding us, we hope to continue doing it. As for design, have you checked out any of our recent offerings? Would you want to offer a point-by-point critique of our design? I ca
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Generally the math of the acquisition is that there is "synergy" (i.e 1+1 much greater than 2 kind of logic). Generally when a big price is paid in an acquisition, the intent is that the acquirer would be able to recoup their investment thr
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
We respectfully disagree. Our Zoho Leads iPhone app was launched in under 3 months from concept to shipment, and it was done by 2 people and it is selling! We have a substantial degree of autonomy in the company (possible because we are pri

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