The journey of Sridhar Vambu is quite inspiring. He completed his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1989 and then earned a PhD from Princeton University in the US.
At present, indigenous instant messaging app Aarattai is being discussed a lot in India. Equipped with features like WhatsApp, this app became popular among the people as soon as it was launched and the app reached the top on the store. But the person whose name is behind this app, his lifestyle is no less than a film story. We are talking about Joho Corporation founder and billionaire Entrepreneur Sridhar Vembu, whose net worth is estimated to be around $ 5.8 billion (about 8850 crore rupees) today. Despite this, he lives a life related to simplicity and land and is still seen walking on the footpaths of the village on a bicycle.
Travel from IIT to America
The journey of Sridhar Vambu is quite inspiring. He completed his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1989 and then earned a PhD from Princeton University in the US. At the end of studies, he started a job as a system design engineer in American company Qualcomm. However, he did not like the job and dreamed of doing something big herself.
Despite the billions of wealth, Sridhar Vambu lives a life related to simplicity and land.
The foundation of Zoho laid like this
In the 90s, Sridhar Vambu, along with his family and friends, started the Adventnet, which later became Joho Corp. Today Joho is counted among the largest software companies in India, which is serving millions of customers worldwide. Joho recorded a consolidated revenue of about Rs 8,703 crore in 2023-24 and the company’s valuation reached Rs 1.04 lakh crore.
The journey of Sridhar Vambu is quite inspiring.
Life in the village despite being a billionaire
Sridhar Vambu was ranked 51st in Forbes’ India Top-100 Billioniers list. His property has increased rapidly from year to year. While his net worth was $ 1.6 billion in 2018, in 2024 it exceeded 5 billion dollars. Despite this, he made villages like Tenkashi and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu instead of grand cities. They often do local trip bicycles. This is the reason that despite being a billionaire, his image remains a simple and a person attached to the land.
Sridhar Vambu has made villages like Tenkashi and Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu.
Vambu’s answer on IPO discussion
After the success of Arattai, when speculation about Joho’s IPO was intensified, Sridhar Weambu clearly said that the company is not in a hurry to enter the stock market at the moment. He says that many innovative projects of Joho have been possible without any pressure and this is their real strength.