EDIT: why downvote this? I'm truly curious. I was a happy customer until not long ago, Zoho's products are great, I just never understood why they don't have a Team/Management page. Unless I'm missing it somehow?
This public presentation I made 3 years ago on our history: https://docs.zoho.com/show/published.do?rid=s0uyx6d6a7e9c859...
High-level business tradeoffs like this are fascinating and worthy of discussion. Even though you name names, it's clearly about the ideas, and not the people. I wish more people had the courage to write so openly and frankly about how they feel.
Unfortunately I'm going to be a wet blanket: I've signed up on Zoho a bunch of times over the years but never stayed because of the Zoho design, or lack thereof. The text is too small, the fonts and icons are ugly or amateurish looking, and its not mobile friendly.
Look, I want you guys to win. I can't stand Salesforce. I'd rather use Zoho products than Google products, but please give some attention to your UX/UI.
Thanks for listening!
What kind of leader hides? It's like a man who won't shake hands or tell you his last name. It's just strange.
Do they think people are going to avoid Zoho because it's Indian? Facebook, Google, Craigslist, & a bunch of others were started by Jewish founders and you know how people have and continue to feel about Jews. Their ethnicity didn't impact them negatively.
Hell, Americans are paranoid about the Chinese and yet still we buy Made in China products.
Zoho should be proud. It came from India, it's privately held, profitable, and hasn't taken venture capital or bank loans. I'd put my name all over that If I were the founder. That's an amazing feat.
I have made presentations on the history of the company before. Here is a public document on this:
https://docs.zoho.com/show/published.do?rid=s0uyx6d6a7e9c859...
It isn't like we are famous or anything ;) which was why we don't go around touting it!
Would you say Zoho abides by open allocation for its workers? [1] I'd love to hear more about the organizational structure of the company.
[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/11/26/what-is-open-al...
Jewish people are well known for being shrewd in business, for example, and often claimed to be unfairly favoured. That you would use them for an example is ironic.
You should judge on merit, not the "story" behind it nor because the founders don't exhibit your idea of social "normal." Exploiting people with your attitude is a huge part of what is wrong with society today.
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/17/news/companies/tall_book_ari...;
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1987.60.3.843
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10052978/Deep-voiced-chie...