{"id":977417,"date":"2025-11-29T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977417"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T04:21:48","slug":"i-am-sorry-zohos-sridhar-vembu-gets-insider-buyout-details-in-acquisition-pitch-then-ai-agent-takes-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/29\/i-am-sorry-zohos-sridhar-vembu-gets-insider-buyout-details-in-acquisition-pitch-then-ai-agent-takes-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am sorry\u2026\u2019: Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu gets insider buyout details in acquisition pitch, then \u2018AI agent\u2019 takes blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that he received insider buyout details in an acquisition pitch from a startup founder. Later, another email landed in his inbox \u2013 not an apology from the founder for the oversight, but from the AI agent. Yes, you read that right! <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am sorry\u2026\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got an email from a startup founder, asking if we could acquire them, mentioning some other company interested in acquiring them and the price they were offering,\u201d Vembu wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that he received insider buyout details in an acquisition pitch from a startup founder. Later, another email landed in his inbox \u2013 not an apology from the founder for the oversight, but from the AI agent. Yes, you read that right! \u2018I am sorry\u2026\u2019 \u201cI got an email from a startup founder, asking if we could acquire them, mentioning some other company interested in acquiring them and the price they were offering,\u201d Vembu wrote on X.<\/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-977417","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\/977417","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=977417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}