{"id":984949,"date":"2026-01-13T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984949"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:02:03","slug":"we-need-people-to-do-deep-work-in-rd-says-zoho-founder-sridhar-vembu-amid-personal-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/we-need-people-to-do-deep-work-in-rd-says-zoho-founder-sridhar-vembu-amid-personal-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need people to do deep work in R&amp;D\u2026,\u2019 says Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu amid personal controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), Sridhar Vembu, the founder and chief scientist of software giant Zoho, outlined his life\u2019s mission to transform India into a technologically advanced and self-reliant nation. The post comes days after news of his ongoing disputes in the divorce case and his alleged ties to right-wing ideologies broke out. <\/p>\n<p>Vembu, who has built Zoho into a bootstrapped competitor to global tech behemoths like Microsoft and Google, highlighted the need for India to overcome historical setbacks and foster rural development through innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), Sridhar Vembu, the founder and chief scientist of software giant Zoho, outlined his life\u2019s mission to transform India into a technologically advanced and self-reliant nation. The post comes days after news of his ongoing disputes in the divorce case and his alleged ties to right-wing ideologies broke out. Vembu, who has built Zoho into a bootstrapped competitor to global tech behemoths like Microsoft and Google, highlighted the need for India to overcome historical setbacks and foster rural development through innovation.<\/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-984949","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\/984949","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=984949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}