{"id":935828,"date":"2025-06-03T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=935828"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:11:01","slug":"zoho-ceo-sridhar-vembu-warns-ai-could-disrupt-the-future-of-saas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/03\/zoho-ceo-sridhar-vembu-warns-ai-could-disrupt-the-future-of-saas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu warns: AI could disrupt the future of SaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho\u2019s Chief Scientist, Sridhar Vembu, has voiced his concerns about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. The SaaS ecosystem has been significantly affected by an earlier influx of venture capital, which fueled rapid growth without a strong focus on profitability. However, with that funding now largely redirected toward AI ventures, the flow of capital into SaaS has slowed considerably. As a result, many SaaS companies\u2014previously operating at a loss\u2014are now under pressure to shift their focus toward sustainable, profit-driven models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho\u2019s Chief Scientist, Sridhar Vembu, has voiced his concerns about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. The SaaS ecosystem has been significantly affected by an earlier influx of venture capital, which fueled rapid growth without a strong focus on profitability. However, with that funding now largely redirected toward AI ventures, the flow of capital into SaaS has slowed considerably. As a result, many SaaS companies\u2014previously operating at a loss\u2014are now under pressure to shift their focus toward sustainable, profit-driven models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}