Sridhar Vembu, AdventNet CEO, on Zoho services

Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet – the company behind the Zoho suite of services, has an interview with Hindu. A snippet from the interview:
Vembu is a man who firmly believes that India has what it takes to build world-beating products, despite being most famous for concentrating on services.

“All remaining barriers are mostly in our mind. The reason most Indian companies concentrate on services is because of a certain aversion to risk, to trying out new things – an attitude of excessive caution.”

That caution is understandable in anyone who grew up in pre-liberalisation India, he adds. “The good news is that a new generation is coming,” without any such assumptions.

Remaining interview here.

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2 comments

  1. Aravind
    May 2, 2007 at 1:36 am

    Thanks for taking note of the interview, Pranav! I see that you believe in Web 2.0 succeeding in India. Great :-) There can be services like Zoho who cater to the whole world and not just India.