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Hailing from Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, Sridhar Vembu grew up in a middle-class family. He is co-founder and the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a company with recent revenue that exceeds $1 billion.

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From his beginnings as an ordinary employee to his rise to one of India's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Sridhar Vembu's entire life is an inspiration. He started a company from scratch with no outside funding, and it has been successful ever since.

According to Forbes, Sridhar Vembu has a staggering net worth of Rs 39,000 crore. Along with him, his sister Radha Vembu, is successfully growing the company to new heights, Zoho Corporation.

Who is Sridhar Vembu?

Hailing from Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, Sridhar Vembu grew up in a middle-class family. He is co-founder and the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a company with recent revenue that exceeds $1 billion. He has followed a truly remarkable path, scaling great heights while firmly maintaining his roots.

Vembu was a very bright student who finished his primary education in Tamil. Later, in 1989, he graduated from IIT Madras with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He later received a doctorate from Princeton University.

He completed his post-graduate studies at Princeton University in New Jersey. He began his professional life at Qualcomm. Vembu founded Adventnet in 1996 along with his brothers. It was an IT company. This business's name in 2009 was Joho Corporation.

He established himself in the Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu. Together with one of his friends and a partner, he founded Zoho Corporation. He did this because he wanted to expand software development to rural areas. He wanted talented people from rural areas to work in IT services, India's main export.

Sridhar Vembu launched a new rural education startup in the year 2020. Through his school, he wished to offer free initial education to kids. He founded the Zoho School, an educational technology company that trains and improves individuals.

Students from this university make up the majority of the Zoho staff. Without prior technical education, individuals have received software engineering training from the Zoho School. Students at this school receive a stipend of Rs 10,000. This school admits students based on their skills, not their grades or test scores. The most successful internet company in India is Zoho, owned by Vembu.

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