He is the Founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation a multi million tech Company that was build without any external funding and is competeting with Tech gaints like Google and Microsoft.He is one among the top most Richest people in India with net worth of 1.6 billion dollars according to December 2018.Today we are using many applications in our day to day life they are somehow connected with Zoho's software products in one or the other way.
"Who told you need to be in Silicon Valley to develop World class products you can develop it in India" -Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu was born in a small village in Tirunelveli and then he gets shifted to Chennai where he studies in a government school till 10th standard.He is from a middle-class family.During his school days he was the person who studies at one or two days before exams.Then he tried for IIT and cleares the enterance and pursued his B.tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.After his UG he did PHD at Princeton University in United states.He Works at Qualcomm on Wireless Technologies.He also reads Political Science based books and gets to knows about the market in Technology Products at China,Japan etc
He came to India and he felt very sad that in US shops he saw products labelled with made in Japan,made in China but no products were labelled made in India.Then he starts his own Company AdventNet Inc in 1996 and in 2009 it was renamed as ZOHO a based on its online office suite.He developed the Zoho desk at Tenkasi in Tamilnadu which is a great product in the Software Industry.He said that we don't need to go to silicon valley to develop great products we can devlop it here in India in Tamil Nadu.Please do see the video below
Sridhar Vembu was the person who introduced the friendly culture in the office.Although He is the Founder and CEO of the company he also sits with normal employees as a friend and talks to them.He is a Down to earth person. Today Zoho is one of the Big Tech companies in the world which is being a tough competetitor to microsoft.Once in an Interview he was asked "whether we need a degree to become an Entreprenur?" .He said "No, it's purely based on our skills" and gave examples of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill gates.He is a very Simple and great person who is responsible for the growth of Zoho an Indian Tech Company.
"I got Inspired from Sridhar Vembu and I think even you will"