Sridhar Vembu's Zoho is evidence of how entrepreneurship can have a direct social impact
At a time when there is so much debate on valuations and their markdowns, a story like Zoho Corp’s seems almost unreal. Sridhar Vembu, 48, who famously turned down venture funding fairly early in his entrepreneurial journey and has never entertained external investors, has built a global software-as- a-service (SaaS) company which today has over 18 million users in 122 countries. “If you take money, you have to necessarily make some compromises,” Vembu tells Forbes India’s Editor (Technology) Harichandan Arakali, who has written the cover story on this remarkable entrepreneur.
(This story appears in the 10 June, 2016 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)