Life Lessons from wonderful humans - Sridhar Vembu

This came in a Whatsapp forward from friend M Shriram. Found it very inspiring..... Thought of sharing...

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Their next goal should have been to buy a private jet but.

Anyway, if someone's total property is worth Rs 18 thousand crores, then even the auditor will not be angry about buying a private jet plane worth Rs 300 crore. And when money is deep, what is difficult?

Even if Lakshmi showers money by tearing the roof, such decisions do not seem expensive to anyone. Maybe that's why buying a jet plane for a billionaire is like buying a Maruti car for a manager.

But Saraswati along with Laxmi was also kind to the Chairman of Zoho Corporation (Zoho Corporation) Sridhar Vembu. That's why their intentions were completely different from others.

Buying a private jet so far, he told his company board of directors that they now want to take Zoho Corporation headquarters from California (US) to somewhere else.

Company officials were stunned by Sridhar's idea.. because there is no other place in the world than California's bay-area for the software industry. Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, or Cisco, all of them are created in this area, they grow fruitful. But Sridhar was going to take an even more unexpected decision.

They weren't moving from California to Seattle or Houston. They wanted to return to Chennai about 13000 kilometers away from America.

He said in a board meeting that if Dale, Cisco, Apple, or Microsoft can set up their offices and research centers in India, why is Zoho Corporation refrain from returning home?

The board was silent before Sridhar's logic and questions. The decision had been made. IIT Madras engineer Sridhar had taken a pledge to go back to Madras. He had already bought 4 acres of land to install the company's new headquarters in a village (District Tenkasi) in Tamil Nadu. And according to the announcement, October 2019, i.e. exactly one year ago Sridhar started the Global Headquarter of Zoho Corporation in Mathlamparai village of Tenkasi district. Not only that, the $ 2.5 billion Zoho Corporation shocked many in the tech world by receiving a record revenue of Rs 3,410 crore in the software development business last year.

Why did Sridhar want to return home?

Sridhar did not return home due to the pressure of any US agency or bank or stock exchange. They weren't even pressured to compete. They weren't even starting a new business. They returned to the country with a positive thought, not for any negative reason. He pledged years ago that if Joho succeeded in business he would invest a large portion of profit in the country. They will also spend the company's profits on giving modern education to the children of the village. With this intention, he first opened a free modern school for children in Mathlamparai village. Knowledgeable of Computer Technology Sridhar is also building Joho University in the village where future software engineers will be ready. In an interview in Forbes Magazine, Sridhar says that if the technology is linked to rural areas, it can be prevented from escaping the village. ′′ There is talent in the village, there is a desire to work... If we connect children with modern education, we will get a big talent pool in the village itself. That's why I go to kids' classes, teach them too. My effort is to connect the village with a satellite. We are not just erasing distances, not just removing backwardness, but we are going to give better delivery from the village than the city.... No matter if the product is software, ′′ Sridhar says.

Pictures show that Sridhar is a very simple and simplicity loving person. They'll often see you in Lungi and Bushirt. They walk on a bicycle to visit the village and tehsil. From his conversation, in a sense, Sridhar does not realize that Sridhar is a billionaire software industrialist who has employed more than 9 thousand people with a majority of engineers. His company's operations spread from the US to Japan and Singapore where 9,300 tech personnel got employment. Sridhar says he will provide around 8 thousand tech jobs in Indian villages in the coming years and shift global services to non-urban areas of the country. In villages with education, they are setting up modern hospitals, sewer systems, drinking water, irrigation, markets, and skill centers.

One question to you now

What is the reason why the public is not able to test diamonds like Sridhar in the country? Why do we worship pseudo heroes by ignoring real heroes? If Sridhar wanted, he would have been flying on a private jet plane in California today, Seven Star would have been living in luxury villas, investing his earnings abroad.. What was the need to return home? Still, the country doesn't take cognizance of their sacrifice?

Are people like Sridhar becoming irrelevant now in this country painted with mud bounce and hatred? Or are we becoming so bad and shameless that we are looking for unworthy instead of Narayan in the male?

Many pole stars like Sridhar are enlightening the country today, but the shine of these stars does not make the society disturb. Their actions don't illuminate the headlines of the news channel. And those who are being illuminated in the morning and evening can not give you anything except darkness.

It is a request to you that if you want to change the future of your children, stop the news channel for a while and find Sridhar in your village and country around you.

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