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Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

badcppdev wrote: post #65
Mandatum wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, and you can trust the Indian government? No offense, but India any cop can walk into Zoho's offices and ask for whatever they want. It doesn't have to go through any agency. Given the corruption of that country, you're absolutely dreaming if you think your data is safer.

I'm not worried about the US or Indian government. I am worried about Google blocking my account and me not being able to contact anyone to get access to it ever again.

This right here. This is why I left Google.

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

cobertos wrote: post #14
iddan wrote: post #2

I've been using Zoho's email for a few years now (only because they used to provide free custom domain email - brilliant growth tactic!). The service itself works perfectly and integrates well with Apple Mail (albeit they changed the server configurations over the years two times if I recall correctly). Though their web client leaves some to be desired, it made very good progress and I believe it would be comparable…

I have not had good integration experiences with Apple Mail. Their service doesn't support mail push last time I checked, so you end up waiting 15 minutes or so for messages whenever Apple Mail decides to poll IMAP

If you mean using Zoho from Apple Mail app, you need to use active sync server at Zoho. THen you get push.

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by j3dj3d »

I switched to Zoho when Gmail threatened to kill our legacy Gsuite account I was using for my family. So far I'm pretty happy although not everything is perfect.

I wrote up my experience here: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho

TL;DR:

- pricing is pretty good. I use the Mail Lite plan for my kids which provided 5GB and upgraded myself to the 10GB plan, all for just a few bucks a month.

- importing mailboxes went very smoothly

- solid mobile and desktop apps, even for Linux (although it uses Electron which I know triggers some people)

- calendaring is frustrating but I don't think that's really Zoho's fault.

- a few small bugs but amazingly a human will reply to you if you file a bug report and eventually it will get fixed!

I feel better knowing that they pay attention to their customers. I'm happy to pay for good service.

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by synergy20 »

donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

Used to be a paid customer, nowadays using its free email with custom domain, for the last 8 years. Thanks Zoho email!

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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carlsborg wrote: post #40
acchow wrote: post #4

> Sridhar Vembu of Zoho said that no other company has built a billion dollar product company in India. India has no other billion dollar product companies? Doesn’t Tata sell cars?

Software products. IIT -> Princton PhD in Electrical engineering -> Qualcomm -> Services Company in that space -> CRM product. And then moves his dev center to the lowest income rural village he can find.. "In 2004, he set up Zoho Schools to provide vocational software development education to rural students as an alternative to formal university education. A statement from the company states that 15 to 20 percent of…

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Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by ignoramous »

tinuviel wrote: post #51

Shout out to Sridhar Vembu, founder of Zoho http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu

There are a few more co-founders:

I want to provide details of our early history because they are not well-known. There were two bootstrapped entities, one in the US and one in India back in 1995. In the suburb of East Tambaram in Chennai, India, my brothers Kumar Vembu (now founder and CEO of GoFrugal and also active in Zoho Corp) and Sekar Vembu (now founder and CEO of Vembu Technologies) and Shailesh Kumar (who heads our Engineering and Zoho Labs today) started a bootstrapped operation at home. Kumar returned from the US after a very brief 1-year stint, and found some contract software development work in the field of telecom software and that was how he paid the bills.

In the US, our co-founder Tony Thomas, who I talk to almost daily to seek his wisdom, my personal daily Buddha, started a bedroom operation in New Jersey in 1995, and he brought in our co-founder Sreenivas Kanumuru (CEO of vTiger). Tony’s elder brother Joy Thomas, who recently passed away (RIP, Joy) and one of the all-time great students from IIT Chennai, helped Tony with a personal loan. Tony had started to work on a library for the SNMP API protocol in Java.

As of late 1995, I was not in the picture, other than advising my brothers. A common friend from IIT introduced me to Tony (who was 3 years ahead of me in IIT and I did not know him during my student days). I then introduced Tony to my brothers in India. They started working together in mid to late 1996.

- Sridhar Vembu, 25 years of Zoho (2021), https://archive.is/bpfUC

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by samirm20 »

j3dj3d wrote: post #73

I switched to Zoho when Gmail threatened to kill our legacy Gsuite account I was using for my family. So far I'm pretty happy although not everything is perfect. I wrote up my experience here: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho TL;DR: - pricing is pretty good. I use the Mail Lite plan for my kids which provided 5GB and upgraded myself to the 10GB plan, all for just a few bucks a month. - importing mai…

There’s a mail + calendar + chat + file storage desktop app in Beta - https://www.zoho.com/trident/

Also they spinned off another brand for Families - https://www.zillum.com

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by ignoramous »

checkagainz wrote: post #75

I am not quite sure you want your data in there. https://entrackr.com/2022/11/exclusive-indian-isps-we-alread...

Zoho is a global company. For instance, their EU customers data stays in the EU: https://www.zoho.com/blog/general/zoho-data-centers-in-europ... (2016)

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by urtrs »

nells wrote: post #6
donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

Yandex mail is better and it allows custom domain for free.

It is not free anymore.
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