Zoho is an Indian software company founded in 1996, known for being the world's largest bootstrapped company without external funding. It offers over 40 integrated business applications and has a unique hiring model through Zoho University, which does not charge students but pays them stipends. Despite offers from major companies like Salesforce, Zoho's founder Sridhar Vembu maintains a focus on affordable pricing and hiring overlooked talent.

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 Zoho is an Indian Software Development Company.
 Zoho was Founded by Sridhar Vembu and his brothers in 1996.
 Zoho is world’s largest Bootstrapped company, didn’t took any external fundings.
 Zoho created more than 35 Software and 55 Mobile Apps for Sales & Marketing, HR & Finance.
 More Than 35 Lakh Customers Worldwide And Above 7000 employees.

4. Zoho One gives you one suite of more than 40 integrated business and productivity
applications for your entire organization.
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 Began his early education in a Tamil-medium government-aided school till the 10 grade.
 Moved on to IIT-Madras for his under-graduation.
 Completed his Electrical Engineering from the Princeton University and have Ph. D.
 Started Multi Million Dollar companies including Zoho Corp., ManageEngine and WebNMS.
 Worked as a Wireless Systems Engineer at Qualcomm, Inc.

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 According to NASSCOM, more than 90% of the graduates and 75% engineers were unemployable,
majorly because the MNC’s and the bigger companies preferred to hire the toppers.
 Sridhar decided to hire young professionals whom others disregard.
 Started in 2005 with 720 graduates in 14 years, comprising 10% of Zoho's employee count.
 Zoho University have branches at Chennai (Guduvanchery, India) and Tenkasi (Mathalamparai, India).

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 Zoho University doesn't charge students any fees, instead they pay stipend to their students.
 15% of Zoho Corp's workforce does not have a college degree.
 Age of student should be within the range of 17 to 20 and should NOT have any academic
qualification higher than Class 12 or 10+3 diploma.

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9. Marc Benioff – CEO, Salesforce.com is desperate to buy
Zoho, given their nervousness of getting out-beaten. Simply
because, Zoho is able to offer the same products to clients at
$10-12 which Salesforce sells it at $65. But Sridhar politely
turned Marc down.
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