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Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick

[Photograph by Literary and Media Committee, TAPMI] This is the age of big data. We are constantly in quest of more numbers and more complex algorithms to crunch them. We seem to believe that this will solve most of the world’s problems - in the economy, society and even our personal lives. As a corollary, rules of thumb and gut instincts are getting short shrift. We think they often violate the principles of logic and lead us into making bad decisions. We might have had to depend on heuristics and our gut feelings in agricultural and manufacturing era. But this is the digital age. We can o...

3 must-know growth tenets from prepaid mobile success Understanding the consumer behaviour responsible for the success of prepaid mobile adoption in India offers a peek into the evolution of current and future services Representative Image Kaamta Driver, Kaamta New, Kaamta driver 20, Kaamta Jio. Kaamta is my parents’ driver. Last Sunday, he was at the airport to pick me up. He has been there every time I have gone back home in the last 20 years. New, Jio, driver 20 is how I have saved his phone numbers in my list of contacts. He has a knack for getting a new number every time I feel I have...

India’s digital economy will go from prepaid to postpaid in the new decade: Nandan Nilekani Share Synopsis The move of the digital economy from a prepaid to postpaid is going to drive a huge cycle of consumption as well as growth, Nandan Nilekani says at a Founding Fuel event. Nandan Nilekani, chairman of Infosys and former chairman of UIDAI. Bengaluru: India’s digital economy will go from a prepaid to postpaid in the new decade, driving a huge cycle of consumption and growth, said Nandan Nilekani, the co-founder of IT giant Infosys and chief architect of Aadhaar, at Founding Fuel’s on...