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Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of Zoho, photographed in his library
Founders & operators

The man who built a $6 billion company from a village.

Sridhar Vembu walked out of Princeton, walked away from Silicon Valley, and walked home. Then he built one of India's most valuable software companies — without raising a single rupee of outside funding.

The Desk·8 min·May 14, 2026

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