{"id":977955,"date":"2025-12-03T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977955"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:32:03","slug":"zohos-sridhar-vembu-hits-back-after-y-combinators-garry-tan-said-bundled-saas-would-soon-be-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/zohos-sridhar-vembu-hits-back-after-y-combinators-garry-tan-said-bundled-saas-would-soon-be-irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu hits back after Y Combinator\u2019s Garry Tan said bundled SaaS would soon be irrelevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online spat broke out between Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu after the former said advances to vibe coding would make software companies like Zoho irrelevant. Vembu hit back, saying that his company would outlive all vibe coding startups in the long run. <\/p>\n<p>The war of words played out on X. Tan posted a screenshot of a news story in which the Zoho CEO had said vibe coding &#8220;oversimplifies&#8221; software development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online spat broke out between Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu after the former said advances to vibe coding would make software companies like Zoho irrelevant. Vembu hit back, saying that his company would outlive all vibe coding startups in the long run. The war of words played out on X. Tan posted a screenshot of a news story in which the Zoho CEO had said vibe coding &#8220;oversimplifies&#8221; software development.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977955","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=977955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}