Follow @marketing.growmatics for more zero to billionaire stories. Meet Sridhar Vembu — the man who said NO to VCs and YES to rural India. 🚫 No outside funding 🏡 Runs his billion-dollar company from a village 🎓 Hires school dropouts and trains them himself While most chase Silicon Valley, he built Zoho quietly — and made it global 🌍 🛠️ Bootstrapped Zoho/AdventNet from 1996 to multi‑billion‑dollar (≈ ₹8,700 Cr revenue, ₹2,800 Cr profit in FY23) 🌾 Moved R&D and offices to rural Tamil Nadu (Tenkasi) and Renigunta 👥 Trains rural talent via Zoho Schools — 15–20% of engineers don’t have college degrees 🇮🇳 Padma Shri Awardee | Net worth: $5.8B (Forbes, 2024) 💡 His belief? “Success isn’t about flashy offices or MBAs. It’s about solving real problems, simply.” Save this for when you feel like giving up. Tag a friend who dreams of building something big. #SridharVembu #Zoho #BootstrappedSuccess #IndianEntrepreneurs #StartupIndia #Village #FoundersOfIndia #MarketingGrowmatics #Tamilnadu

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