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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Your point is fair. Anytime we criticize a competitor, we risk being perceived as bitter, which is why I rarely post about Salesforce at all. However, I made an exception here because I felt customers should be educated that they aren't jus
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Bitter? We are doing just fine and we have intentionally chosen to remain private (17 years and running now). We could sell the whole thing or go public tomorrow if we choose to. So why would we be bitter? My post is to draw a clear contras
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
Our people are prominently mentioned in our press releases. We respond on our forums, on twitter, on forums like this. The reason for the lack of a "management team" page is that we don't the org chart typical companies do. First, there are
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
(CEO here) There is no particular reason. Perhaps part of the reason is that we don't have an org chart the conventional way many companies do. If you look through our posts and our press releases, the people who run our products are mentio
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They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build(zoho.com)
144 points by sridharvembu 13y ago|72 comments
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Choosing a JS MVC Framework: Angular.js vs Ember.js(dybskiy.com)
6 points by sridharvembu 13y ago|0 comments
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
All of the problems were much worse 35 years ago. Yet, in spite of all that, India has made progress. I assume you are very young - I am approaching 45, and I am more optimistic now than when I was at 25. I am not just being optimistic, I a
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by sridharvembu 13y ago
I am optimistic about India, in spite of all the problems. First, almost all the problems are accounted for by the $1200 GDP per capita. It is hard to visualize just how scarce resources are to solve problems when you are that poor. At the
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
Let me add my perspective as an Indian living in the SF bay area, spending about 20-25% of my time in India. The poverty of India is inescapable, it is everywhere around you. The reason I got into business, particularly business in India, u
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
I don't know anything about the merits of this case, but there is something disquieting about a taxpayer financed non-profit entity, supposedly pursuing truth in a disinterested way, doing this. If CMU wants the freedom to pursue its self-i
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
That being said, as it gets cheaper to distribute information and turn that information into physical goods, the amount of value in the production of physical goods is going to approach the cost to manufacture those goods. There will alway
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
Look at Table 1 in the study, and another far more interesting thing jumps out: inflation perception varies enormously according to income. Low income people report much higher rate of inflation (across gender) than high income people. At t
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
I haven't done it (i.e start the company _as_ the kid was born) so I can't be sure but he was born during the most hectic phase of the company, bootstrapping our way up, with lots of travel. Even during that time, I still had plenty of time
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
I started my company (Zoho Corp) after I got married and our son was born within a couple of years of it. One co-founder already had a kid by the time we got started. It helped that none of us were into "youth culture" but more of a "geek c
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
You said: Someone with high IQ can develop strategies to ameliorate essentially every aspect of their autistic symptoms - learning social and communication skills, structuring their life to deal with overstimulation, participating in behavi
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
Do you have any basis for saying the autoimmune hypothesis is "advanced primarily by parents?" I ask because I have a son with autism, and I have met leading immunologists in famous medical schools who subscribe to this hypothesis. That doe
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by sridharvembu 14y ago
We have two rules in Zoho Corp: 1. To evaluate a team member's contribution fairly, every manager has to really know the person well. In other words, no "fly-by-night" form-filling performance reviews! 2. No negatives surprises during a p
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TechCrunch Review of Zoho's New Site Builder(techcrunch.com)
2 points by sridharvembu 14y ago|0 comments
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by sridharvembu 15y ago
(Disclosure: I am the CEO of Zoho) If you could take a moment to tell us what you find unusable about Zoho Mail, I would assure you we would listen to the critique seriously (and perhaps even do something about it if we agree!). You can als
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by sridharvembu 15y ago
(Disclosure: I am the CEO of Zoho) We would invite people to try Zoho Mail. We have come a long way in the past few years, and we are investing in a ton of R&D to ensure we are world-class. We offer our consumer edition free-of-cost and
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
This article ignores the other possibility, which I believe to be the only real solution: default on the debt, wiping out shareholders where appropriate, convert debt to equity, thereby reducing systemic debt. Bondholders will have to take
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
India is known to be a very corrupt country too, but in my personal experience and the experience of others I know well, the on-the-ground-reality can be quite good. India is a vast country, so all generalizations are very likely to be both
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
This is great essay - pg's best in my opinion! I call the thoughts my mind drifts to as the "background thread" in my CPU. And there are times when that background thread is very productive and enjoyable. Alas, there have are times when tha
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
The core argument amounts to: -- quote -- "The core of the problem has not been self-discipline or a lack of opportunity," Karelis says. "My argument is that the cause of poverty has been poverty." -- end quote -- Being Indian, I have spent
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
Yes, it is the same people, and it is the same company which used to be called AdventNet until about a year ago, when the popularity of the Zoho brand made us change the name to Zoho Corp to avoid confusion. AdventNet itself was bootstrappe
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
Honestly, I don't know what I would have done; I agree their situation is quite different. I probably would have done what he had to do. Amazon is a great company that I respect.
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
Tom, thanks for your kind words. I am sorry we lost your business. Do you remember what the feature was? Now to address your broader point, we are at a stage in Zoho (over 1200 people in the company Zoho Corp, check zohocorp.com, with Zoho.
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by sridharvembu 16y ago
I question to value of MBA even for large companies. I see value in structured, methodical, analytical thinking for many classes of business problems (not all, many crucial business decisions involve creative guesswork!), but an MBA is way
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Zoho Search: Actionable Search Across Apps(blogs.zoho.com)
3 points by sridharvembu 16y ago|0 comments
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by sridharvembu 17y ago
Our office is in Chennai, where we have over 1000 employees. All our software development is in Chennai. Is India an exciting place to be for a software person? Yes, absolutely!

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