February 18, 2026

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu: Smart American students now skip going to college, I would urge educated Indian parents to…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu champions American tech’s trend of high schoolers skipping college for work, urging Indian parents to recognize this “profound cultural shift.” He highlights Palantir’s experiment hiring graduates directly, emphasizing empowerment and avoiding student debt. Vembu advocates for companies to remove degree requirements, citing Zoho’s success with young, degreeless talent. Zoho founder and…

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American venture capitalist Garry Tan says Zoho will ‘perish’; founder Sridhar Vembu hits back; says: Let me make a bet that…

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Zoho’s chief, Sridhar Vembu, has passionately responded to the forecasts made by Y Combinator’s Garry Tan, which suggest that AI’s ‘vibe coding’ could extinguish the flame of Indian SaaS innovators. Vembu emphasized the strong trajectory of Zoho’s customer base, casting doubt on the effectiveness of AI-generated applications for the nuanced requirements of businesses and raising…

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Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu shares AI agent’s ‘sorry note’ after sharing his company’s trade secret

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At a time when companies like Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and other tech giants are rooting for the Agentic AI era, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has shared an example on how risky it is to over-rely on artificial intelligence in corporate communication. In Vembu’s example, the incident involved an AI assistant revealing highly confidential acquisition…

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Sridhar Vembu announces system-wide end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp-rival Arattai, calls it ‘a forced upgrade because…’

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Earlier this month, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu shared a post seeking user feedback on how end-to-end encryption (E2EE) should be applied across Arattai – the company’s WhatsApp rival. He then gave two options – system-wide or giving a user choice to pick individual chats to be in E2EE mode. Now, Vembu has shared a status…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu on Arattai app dropping out of top 100 list: ‘I literally told our employees…’

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Zoho Corporation founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu has responded to his company’s messaging app Arattai falling out of the top 100 apps list, calling it a normal part of business development and dismissing critics as wasting their time. In an interview with ANI, Vembu addressed questions about WhatsApp testing a feature that would allow users…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu to Indian immigrants: India sent her best, India should also…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has urged Indian professionals abroad to consider returning home, declaring that “Bharat Mata wants you, needs you and welcomes you” as he responded to new research showing Indian immigrants contribute the most fiscally to their host nations among major immigrant groups.Vembu’s comments came after Manhattan Institute research…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu to take a break from external engagements from next week; says: I am at risk of…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu announced on Wednesday that he will step back from external engagements starting next week to focus on coding and product development work he had committed to but fallen behind on. The billionaire entrepreneur said he risks contradicting his own principle of “do not preach what you do not practise” if he…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu warns: This boom makes me very uncomfortable, as current investment in AI is …

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu is the next to join the ongoing ‘AI bubble’ debate. Vembu has issued a cautionary warning on the present surge in artificial intelligence investments. He described the market as a ‘financial bubble’ that could distort long-term innovation. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Vembu said that while AI holds enormous promise, the…

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu: Feeling of nationalism has gone missing in our hyper-educated elite, they think of themselves as…

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Zoho founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu has called on India’s educated elite to rediscover their sense of belonging and commitment to the nation, arguing that a patriotic spirit is essential for the country’s meaningful development. In an interview with MoneyControl, Vembu warned that globalisation has led many urban Indians to see themselves as “global…

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