The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur is what Forbes called Zoho's co-founder, Sridhar Vembu. He's become a little less unknown since that article came out, but when it bubbled to the top of Hacker News recently I read it I wanted more details about how he bootstrapped Zoho into a profitable online application provider. So I invited him to Mixergy to tell us the story of how he built his compa
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