When Zoho CEO Vembu wanted to hire Trump’s new AI advisor Krishnan

When Sriram Krishnan was studying at SRM Engineering College of Anna University in Chennai during 2001-2005, Sridhar Vembu, founder of tech company Zoho Corporation, came across his blog. It was one of the early programming blogs from India at that time.

“I was so impressed, I wanted to recruit him but Microsoft had already taken him on board. We have been in touch on and off as he later moved to Silicon Valley and became an entrepreneur,” recalled Vembu on X,