{"id":965039,"date":"2025-09-29T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965039"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:44:50","slug":"meet-sridhar-vembu-zoho-founder-and-the-man-behind-arattai-a-made-in-india-alternative-to-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/meet-sridhar-vembu-zoho-founder-and-the-man-behind-arattai-a-made-in-india-alternative-to-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sridhar Vembu: Zoho founder and the man behind Arattai, a made-in-India alternative to WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sridhar Vembu, the founder of Zoho Corporation, took an unusual route to building one of the world\u2019s leading software companies. He left behind a high-paying job in the United States, and returned to rural India with a bold vision: to build a global tech company from a village without any external funding. <\/p>\n<p>Sridhar Vembu, a graduate of Princeton University, began his career in Silicon Valley, working in the tech industry. Despite his success abroad, Vembu believed that true potential could be found not just in elite institutions or major cities, but in small towns and villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sridhar Vembu, the founder of Zoho Corporation, took an unusual route to building one of the world\u2019s leading software companies. He left behind a high-paying job in the United States, and returned to rural India with a bold vision: to build a global tech company from a village without any external funding. Sridhar Vembu, a graduate of Princeton University, began his career in Silicon Valley, working in the tech industry. Despite his success abroad, Vembu believed that true potential could be found not just in elite institutions or major cities, but in small towns and villages.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965039","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=965039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}