# ![@svembu Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::14649267.png) @svembu Sridhar Vembu

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[countries](/list/countries)  23.13% [finance](/list/finance)  #5876 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  7.48% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #3402 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2.04% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.68% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  0.68% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  0.68%

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[india](/topic/india) #2304, [ai](/topic/ai) #1563, [software](/topic/software) #51, [in the](/topic/in-the) 3.4%, [china](/topic/china) 3.4%, [we are](/topic/we-are) 2.72%, [investment](/topic/investment) 2.72%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 2.04%, [history](/topic/history) 2.04%, [products](/topic/products) 2.04%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Parents should take this analysis seriously. I believe there is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism in India. 🚨BREAKING The Most Comprehensive Analysis Ever Conducted on the Causes of Autism Finds Vaccination Is the DOMINANT Risk Factor After decades of censorship and denial the McCullough Foundations Landmark Report of over [---] studies finally delivers the verdict: Autisms rise https://t.co/EePJpa1bxy 🚨BREAKING The Most Comprehensive Analysis Ever Conducted on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1982997965234155949)  2025-10-28T02:28Z 406.7K followers, 3.8M engagements


"The linked article goes over the history of how Mrs Indira Gandhi buckled under US pressure and devalued the rupee by 57% one day in [----] and how her action destroyed the rupee's standing in global trade and made India much poorer in one stroke. The amount of damage she did to our nation is immense and that is not even counting the Emergency. I was not aware of her [----] decision and we need these historical facts to be brought out. https://www.businessworld.in/article/1966-when-india-s-iron-lady-buckled-under-us-pressure-590647"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2015621643683713467)  2026-01-26T03:03Z 406.7K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Examples are now pouring in about AI-assisted Code Engineering productivity. The quoted post is a Bhagwad Gita app. Anthropic has built an entire C compiler with their Claude AI. That is not an easy engineering feat at all. At this point it is best for those of us who depend on writing code for a living to start considering alternative livelihoods. I include myself in this. I don't say this in panic but with calm acceptance and embrace. As a matter of fact I did a detailed session with Gemini Pro on how the economy will be shaped by the AI revolution. It was like having an extremely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019604761641894083)  2026-02-06T02:51Z 406.7K followers, 1.2M engagements


"A good counter argument on why AI may not have a big impact on software jobs. He points to radiologist jobs as an example. Do software engineers face the future of weavers or radiologists His argument is strong: clothes don't have to be verified but code has to be verified. The counter to the counter is that tractors and harvesters still need humans but fewer humans so farmer numbers dropped massively after they arrived. Which way ahead For non-verifiable domains the only way you can improve AI performance at this time is via curating more annotated training data which is expensive and only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019893734549385610)  2026-02-06T21:59Z 406.7K followers, 109.7K engagements


"Indian immigrants make the highest fiscal contribution to their host nation as the chart below shows. India sent her best. I hope India retains its best in the next generation. India also should attract some of the talent that left. From the migrant perspective why stay where you are not welcome Bharat Mata wants you needs you and welcomes you Come home let's create a strong and prosperous Bharat 🙏 Crazy people on X are bashing Indian immigrants but my new research published today finds that Indians are the best major country of origin group of immigrants. The average Indian immigrant and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1981536079602995318)  2025-10-24T01:39Z 406.4K followers, 492.2K engagements


"I never miss the chance for a road side sugar cane juice when I am on the road. Enjoying it near the Vandalur Zoo in Chennai along with Ananthan Ayyasamy as we discussed FPGA programming tools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1998306076807365020)  2025-12-09T08:17Z 405.5K followers, 121.6K engagements


"Those of us who lived abroad for a long period (like I did [--] years spent abroad) know just how much India's image abroad has transformed in the past [--] years. That is the real yardstick. We have to thank our Prime Minister for this and that is the reason his popularity is so high with the diaspora. #India: India must recognise the limits of performative diplomacy warm embraces highly publicised summits and symbolic gestures such as awards and leaders driving together in the same car do not necessarily translate into tangible gains @suhasinih 1/2 https://t.co/8QMlyKPMKi #India: India must"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2004901164400451762)  2025-12-27T13:04Z 406.4K followers, 714.6K engagements


"AI makes senior architects more productive and reduces the need for junior engineers. The architect needs to understand the requirements as well as the technology stack well to be able to guide the AI and fine tune its output. But if we don't have junior engineers we don't get to train the next generation of architects - after all how does someone become a software architect without being a junior engineer first I am still thinking through how this gets resolved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2009566975652253849)  2026-01-09T10:04Z 406.4K followers, 70.6K engagements


"On recent developments in China where the top military General who was also the number two in the powerful Central Military Commission has been purged. He is accused of treason (selling nuclear secrets to America) but that kind of accusation is usual when someone at the top loses an internal power struggle. That is classic Maoism. China has an advanced tech-driven economy and a political system that has reverted to Chairman Mao. These two cannot go together indefinitely. 🚨Another heavyweight commentator in the Chinese-language community agrees with my view. The following commentary comes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2015978179383722207)  2026-01-27T02:40Z 403.5K followers, 83.1K engagements


""France announced today its phasing out Teams Zoom etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio." The very definition of a "sovereign nation" should now include "technology sovereignty". Big Tech now is the New East India company and Europeans are now waking up to it. History seems to rhyme with irony 🤓 🚨France announced today its phasing out Teams Zoom etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on @outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on [----] for government agencies. See"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2015984000821821532)  2026-01-27T03:03Z 406.4K followers, 420.1K engagements


"As a general principle when you rely on ads based on user habits privacy can never be the first priority. The conflict of interest is real and serious. Combine that with public market pressure for ever greater profit to justify astronomical valuations ("wealth creation" is the polite term for it) it is naive to assume that these companies will put user privacy first. BREAKING: Meta Whistleblowers say WhatsApp private chats can be read by the company despite promises of end to end encryption. A lawsuit filed in US court claims Meta misled billions of users worldwide into believing their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2016019495727595623)  2026-01-27T05:24Z 406.3K followers, 74.8K engagements


"@mindmoneylabs Try the most advanced paid models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019606321365221402)  2026-02-06T02:57Z 406.5K followers, 31.5K engagements


"@NewyorkPandian Yes I would agree with you now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019614163543511341)  2026-02-06T03:28Z 406.5K followers, 15.8K engagements


"@harshawardhanab All documented knowledge has been ingested. That includes all the open source code. AI will now assist in the production of new knowledge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019614657934422359)  2026-02-06T03:30Z 406.4K followers, 12.6K engagements


"Traditional weavers did lose their jobs to machine looms and we have a lot fewer weavers today. Most programming has been like hand-weaving code. So the weaver analogy is quite relevant. I said this nearly [--] years ago but now the machine looms are getting very very good. AI translations were not very trustworthy until recently but they are also becoming extremely good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019626276294914276)  2026-02-06T04:16Z 406.4K followers, 38.4K engagements


"@raghuvempati Software (like clothing) will be plentiful. And weavers did not benefit from clothes becoming plentiful and cheap . I am not confident enough to assert that paid programmer jobs will increase or even remain the same number as today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019669669142229192)  2026-02-06T07:09Z 406.3K followers, 35.8K engagements


"No we are not planning layoffs. We have not been hiring many new software engineers for a while now. Our hope and our goal is to reinvent ourselves and redeploy people in case we see a big impact. Can we succeed in that I am an optimist but we also mentally prepare people to not take anything for granted. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019895109731643794 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019895109731643794"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019895109731643794)  2026-02-06T22:04Z 406.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Recent AI models are so good that they seem to get the "meta" aspects of a problem. I am shocked at their performance in a way I was not just a few months ago. I have been in the sceptical camp on the idea that auto regressive token prediction could get so good. Recent performance I have seen has challenged my scepticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019897861924876747)  2026-02-06T22:15Z 406.4K followers, 13.2K engagements


"Internships try to get as close to real world work culture as possible. This works well for people looking for their first job. You can get a very good idea in a month or two. Doesn't work for experienced people or people already in a job. For those cases you need to be able to assess their previous work. Not always easy either. One substitute is referrals from people you trust. Again not infallible. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020385907917127701 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020385907917127701"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2020385907917127701)  2026-02-08T06:35Z 406.4K followers, [----] engagements


"We better pay attention to him because he has the best coding tool in the world. Anthropic CEO: Software engineering will be completely obsolete in 6-12 months https://t.co/EwKq8l7HE7 Anthropic CEO: Software engineering will be completely obsolete in 6-12 months https://t.co/EwKq8l7HE7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019737601423597685)  2026-02-06T11:39Z 406.7K followers, 637.8K engagements


"A year ago I became our Chief Scientist. My R&D team and I have been working hard to reinvent ourselves. We have made very good progress but we still have more work to do. With recent developments on the AI front the task has become much more urgent. I will have to decline all other priorities outside of this work. In particular I cannot travel for various events. I apologise in advance🙏 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019929108873142481 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019929108873142481"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019929108873142481)  2026-02-07T00:20Z 406.7K followers, 167.8K engagements


"Tests measure test taking skills. Interviews measure interviewing skills. Beyond a basic competence threshold tests and interviews don't correlate too well with exceptional performance in the real world. @alz_zyd_ Hugo Duminil-Copin French mathematician and [----] Field Medalist told me he never participated in math competition and was very bad at it. Innovative mathematics requires creativity intuition intense concentration and long reflections sometimes spread over several years. Good @alz_zyd_ Hugo Duminil-Copin French mathematician and [----] Field Medalist told me he never participated in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2020375985288540502)  2026-02-08T05:55Z 406.7K followers, 49.2K engagements


"It is easy to mistake prestige for quality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2022471216276340948)  2026-02-14T00:41Z 406.7K followers, 20.7K engagements


"On the topic of privacy there are three distinct cases I want to address: [--]. The secret lover case [--]. The violation we feel when a company uses our personal data to show ads to us [--]. The secret rebel case The secret lover case also applies to org trade secrets and confidential data but "secret lover" is more catchy 😁 We work hard to ensure your privacy in case [--]. Our tech stack and product are designed with this as a major goal. Let me come to case [--]. By taking a vow to not use your data to try to sell you stuff we protect you from that sense of distaste or violation. Our strong stand also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1975713971664834686)  2025-10-08T00:04Z 406.7K followers, 763.6K engagements


"Software stocks are coming down hard. I see it as massively over-valued companies coming down. But the quoted post argues "AI based code will destroy the software industry". First I don't see why any mature software company should trade at 30-40 PE. I think [--] or [--] is where they will go. I also think the E will drop - Salesforce or Service Now have gotten away with exorbitant prices so far and they won't be able to. When they lose their high PE and their E also drops it would feel like death - given that companies like Salesforce are merely "use high flying stock to acquire start-ups and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2017377818926317942)  2026-01-30T23:22Z 406.6K followers, 210.3K engagements


"Today is Thai Poosam an auspicious day. I am blessed to join our villagers on the annual pilgrimage to the Thoranamalai Murugan temple.  Om Muruga 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2017847042979352653)  2026-02-01T06:26Z 406.6K followers, 56.6K engagements


"Great analysis of the Economic Survey by the Chief Economic Adviser Shri Anantha Nageswaran. I agree with Anantha-ji that the private sector must step up and invest in gaining critical technological capabilities across a diverse array of sectors. This is the right moment. This kind of investment by its nature is long term and we cannot measure it using conventional ROI analysis. The text of year's budget cannot be deciphered without reading it in the context of the brilliant preface to the Economic Survey by Chief Economic Adviser Anantsnageswaran who has explained how not just the global"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2018232584262828196)  2026-02-02T07:58Z 406.6K followers, 54.2K engagements


"AIIMS New Delhi is recognised as 6th in the world. Amazing work and a role model for all of us in India on what can be achieved. Congratulations to AIIMS director faculty and staff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2021522788121755913)  2026-02-11T09:52Z 406.7K followers, 31K engagements


"What Sarvam AI has demonstrated - world class AI can be done much more affordably and sustainably with much lower energy and compute footprint - is important. I have come to believe that in software code generation much more energy and compute efficient approaches to AI can be developed. That is important because the earth cannot afford today's AI energy footprint. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477523494613349 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477523494613349"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2022477523494613349)  2026-02-14T01:06Z 406.7K followers, 95.9K engagements


"I am grateful I got to spend some time with my parents today. They are my living role models of humility and contentment though I still argue with my mother after all these years. ❤😁"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1702308056430948642)  2023-09-14T13:07Z 406.7K followers, 857.7K engagements


"Smart people should not get trapped in status competition. Status competition sucks our energy to the point we achieve nothing of meaning or consequence. Prestige is the enemy of progress. In business prestige is the enemy of profit. In public life prestige is the enemy of service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1918868360307368019)  2025-05-04T03:20Z 406.7K followers, 109.9K engagements


"Thank you Sir this is a huge morale boost for our engineers who have worked hard for over two decades to build our product suite. We will make you proud and make our nation proud. Jai Hind 🙏 I am moving to Zoho our own Swadeshi platform for documents spreadsheets & presentations. I urge all to join PM Shri @narendramodi Jis call for Swadeshi by adopting indigenous products & services. https://t.co/k3nu7bkB1S I am moving to Zoho our own Swadeshi platform for documents spreadsheets & presentations. I urge all to join PM Shri @narendramodi Jis call for Swadeshi by adopting indigenous products &"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1970155560915058881)  2025-09-22T15:57Z 406.7K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Update on our Arattai messenger app: It is another example of our patient engineering approach at work. We have taken the time because we have to make it work in low end phones low bandwidth networks (we test down to [--] kilobits/sec) offer outstanding privacy and security and be very easy to use all at the same time We are diligently updating the app weekly. We are working on a lot of the features you expect and in another month a lot of that will be done. We are also investing in the infrastructure for scaling. I am personally talking to the engineers daily on all this. We will launch a big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1971519068160004381)  2025-09-26T10:15Z 406.7K followers, 1.8M engagements


"We understand the push for Zoho to go public. But let me state the reality: Arattai would very likely not have been built by a public company that faces quarter to quarter financial pressure. It was a "hopelessly foolish" project and even our employees had expressed scepticism that Arattai would ever gain any traction. We built it because we felt we need that kind of engineering capability in Bharat. We need a lot lot more of such capabilities in Bharat and we are on it. We have some very ambitious long range R&D projects going on in Zoho including compilers databases OS security hardware"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972429032282312776)  2025-09-28T22:31Z 406.7K followers, 1.9M engagements


"Arattai is on the surface a simple product but it has a lot of depth inside. Let me list the engineering frameworks (all homegrown) that power Arattai. First is what we call our messaging/AV framework. This has been the "real time" workhorse of Zoho for a while and this is what offers you those crisp calls and meetings that connect quickly. It has been perfected for [--] years. Then we have a distributed framework that allows us to distribute the workload among many servers and databases and provides fault tolerance performance monitoring security and so on. This is the backbone of Zoho and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974620561222652163)  2025-10-04T23:40Z 406.7K followers, 917.2K engagements


""Electricity bill . up 60% since 2023" in Athens Georgia (US) due to new AI data center demand for electricity. One of the under-appreciated facts about the current state-of-the art AI is how extraordinarily energy inefficient it is. This is a huge issue for India. Even if we could afford all the GPUs (not) we cannot afford the electricity bill. We cannot afford to hurt households and factories. We need vastly more energy efficient AI. I believe that requires fundamentally rethinking the computational aspect of AI. AI is going to go down as a disaster of colossal scale. My electricity bill in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1975312897531363756)  2025-10-06T21:31Z 406.7K followers, 897.5K engagements


"Best thing I found on X. This is the "Buddha mind". I ask myself: what is the worst thing anyone can tell me Then I say that out to myself. It is a form of mental vaccination 😏. Seems to work but "unscientific" N = [--] etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2016731884584390790)  2026-01-29T04:35Z 406.7K followers, 96.9K engagements


"The essence of colonial economics is to be forced to export cheap raw material and import value added products. By keeping our value addition low we were kept poor. Today India exports brain power cheap and imports value added technologies expensively. We must capture more of the value ourselves. As part of it India must look the GCC gift horse in the mouth and ask "Are they spending their fair share in the jurisdiction where the value in the form of IP is created Are they paying their fair share of taxes" Given the demographic reality even more of the global brain power in the future will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2016989664620712445)  2026-01-29T21:39Z 406.7K followers, 68K engagements


"Some people outsource their work to AI. Other people outsource the work of outsourcing their work to AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2018184818337656971)  2026-02-02T04:48Z 406.7K followers, 43.7K engagements


"His thesis is Indians must perform or perish due to our population and a few rise to the top in Western orgs under that pressure. I will offer a different explanation: Indian employees are some of the most loyal to their organizations and American corporations get to experience this over time. To state it differently when you consider a cohort of people who joined a company in a given year (say 2000) a much higher proportion of Indians would still be there [--] years later even adjusting for factors like IQ and education. Over time cultural continuity in an organization tends to be with those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2018511951996035555)  2026-02-03T02:28Z 406.7K followers, 188.9K engagements


"Masterclass in patient diplomacy. Wonderful to speak with my dear friend President Trump today. Delighted that Made in India products will now have a reduced tariff of 18%. Big thanks to President Trump on behalf of the [---] billion people of India for this wonderful announcement. When two large economies and the Wonderful to speak with my dear friend President Trump today. Delighted that Made in India products will now have a reduced tariff of 18%. Big thanks to President Trump on behalf of the [---] billion people of India for this wonderful announcement. When two large economies and the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2018512579023511677)  2026-02-03T02:31Z 406.7K followers, 146.7K engagements


"The stock market is becoming very negative about the prospects of SaaS companies in the AI-assisted Code era. Well before the AI revolution I have said SaaS industry is ripe for consolidation. An industry that spends vastly more on sales and marketing than on engineering and product development was always vulnerable. The venture capital bubble and then the stock market bubble funded a fundamentally flawed unsustainable model for too long. AI is the pin that is popping this inflated balloon. Can Zoho survive the AI wave It depends on our ability to adapt. I always ask our employees to calmly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2018910228868383231)  2026-02-04T04:51Z 406.7K followers, 218.7K engagements


"Thank you Jaya Hind Industries Your world-class manufacturing capability makes us proud. We are excited to partner with you. Jai Hind 🙏 🎉 Celebrating a customer win with Jaya Hind Industries. ✨ We are thrilled to announce a key milestone in our Project DigiForce partnership As part of this we worked with Jaya Hind Industries to strengthen how their front-office teams collaborate use data and manage https://t.co/zf9tpvTnw5 🎉 Celebrating a customer win with Jaya Hind Industries. ✨ We are thrilled to announce a key milestone in our Project DigiForce partnership As part of this we worked with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2019316074349805852)  2026-02-05T07:44Z 406.7K followers, 41.8K engagements


"Medical doctor using AI: "Just on a lark I was able to create in about [--] weeks and a hundred million tokens an entire medical school curriculum. [---] lectures and notes [-----] figures. Multiple rounds of error checking show that the work is 99% flawless. Going to release and open source it soon. Normally this takes years of work from hundreds of humans. Instead an agent swarm from Claude Code was able to do it in days." Exhilarating and scary. Why are some people in the tech scene in a daze the last few weeks I'll tell you. I've been spending an ungodly amount of time with the new AI tools that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2020314845992874089)  2026-02-08T01:52Z 406.7K followers, 183.9K engagements


"Excessive financial speculation can harm the real economy. Sophisticated financial instruments can become "financial weapons of mass destruction" as Warren Buffett called them. I agree with much of what Oren Cass says here. A growing and increasingly sophisticated financial sector can benefit the economy by reducing frictional costs associated with the flow of capital and so improving the efficient allocation of capital. But only up the a point. I agree with much of what Oren Cass says here. A growing and increasingly sophisticated financial sector can benefit the economy by reducing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2021095604198441381)  2026-02-10T05:35Z 406.7K followers, 27.6K engagements


"I am very happy to see Tenkasi Semiconductors affectionately called Tensemi taking shape under the leadership of my dear friend Anandan Ayyasamy an outstanding silicon architect. Anandan and I have made a promise to each other that he will teach me silicon design and I will teach him software design Hello World - from team Tenkasi Semiconductors Stay tuned. https://t.co/6Hs27uftcI Hello World - from team Tenkasi Semiconductors Stay tuned. https://t.co/6Hs27uftcI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2022056531764949147)  2026-02-12T21:13Z 406.7K followers, 134K engagements


"Big tech is bigger than most sovereign nations. "East India Company" is the way to think about them. Google raised $32B of debt in [--] day what a sovereign government like India raises in [---] days Google also issued a 100-year bond worth $1B which is longer than India's longest at [--] years Big tech now operates like sovereign nations with fundraising size and time horizons Google raised $32B of debt in [--] day what a sovereign government like India raises in [---] days Google also issued a 100-year bond worth $1B which is longer than India's longest at [--] years Big tech now operates like sovereign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/2022623495423955020)  2026-02-14T10:46Z 406.7K followers, 47.1K engagements


""Uday Kotak hails Indian housewife as the smartest fund manager as gold hits [--] lakh" I agree wholeheartedly with Uday Kotak-ji. Indians' love of gold and a corresponding distrust of paper assets is the foundation of our long term stability and civilizational continuity. Money is too important to be left to central banks and governments and PhD economists and their fancy theories (or software engineers for that matter 😁 and I am looking at you Bitcoin). Gold IS money. The poorest Indian knows this and that knowledge is power. As global economic conditions get worse India's stability will come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1914531592799957061)  2025-04-22T04:07Z 308.7K followers, 107.5K engagements


"I have met many Sindhi Hindus living in the US who told me the same thing Prakash-ji says below about his family's experience of partition. I have heard the same thing from Bengali friends. We have the experience of Kashmiri pandits in living memory. All this should give us the resolve to make sure it never happens in our nation again. These terrorist attacks are a reminder of what is at stake for us. In [----] my family had three choices: A. Convert to Islam B. Leave their home all belongings & flee with zero C. Stay where they are and die They chose B. ( I thank God every single day that they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1915047529907184116)  2025-04-23T14:18Z 308.2K followers, 222K engagements


"A [--] year old asked me recently what I wanted to be when I was her age. I told her the truth "train engine driver". And then I told her "At [--] I wanted to be a cricket player so badly". By about [--] I realised I had only marginal talent for cricket (my brothers would say "zero talent" and I would strongly disagree 😅) so I decided to focus on what I do well and focus harder on mathematics and physics (I was weak in chemistry) which got me through IIT JEE. Then during my IIT days I realised I don't have the talent to be world-class in mathematics or physics either. So finally I settled on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1916325021594837350)  2025-04-27T02:54Z 308.7K followers, 166.7K engagements


"The most frequent question that people ask when we open a new rural area (like our original Tenkasi office) is "where will we get the talent" or "who will want to work there" First some raw numbers. Almost anywhere in India within a [--] km radius there are at least [---] million people often more than [--] million people - in a rural district Our average population density of [---] people per sq km ensures this. States like UP have over [----] people per sq km so the average rural district has 3+ million people. [--] million rural population in India have about 15K children per year - that many children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1917379117403758970)  2025-04-30T00:42Z 308.6K followers, 94.1K engagements


"Enjoying the heavy rain in our new office block in Tenkasi which is designed with offices situated on corridors that look out on open courtyards that also become ponds in heavy rain. Beautiful day to code and enjoy the rain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1917522549262463385)  2025-04-30T10:12Z 309.7K followers, 176.9K engagements


"Here is how I assess our nation's capabilities in terms of innovation which I have classified into [--] categories. [--]. Process innovation: the best of Indian industry is world-class in process innovation. For example: our airlines hospitals retail and financial services are excellent. We have to adopt process innovations in smaller and mid-sized companies. Overall I will give ourselves 70% on this. [--]. Product innovation: I would give ourselves barely passing marks about 35% and that might even be optimistic. Innovations like UPI show we _can_ do it but there is still so much work to do. Our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1917779529202028767)  2025-05-01T03:14Z 309.7K followers, 91.3K engagements


"I have often said this to our employees: the fact that software engineers get paid better than mechanical engineers or civil engineers or chemists or school teachers is not some birthright and we cannot take that for granted and we cannot assume it will last forever. The fact that customers pay for our products also cannot be taken for granted. This is to remind ourselves that we can be "disrupted" - and the more we assume we won't be the more likely we will be. Or as Andy Grove of Intel said "Only the paranoid survive". The productivity revolution I see coming to software development (LLMs +"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1923901745111105600)  2025-05-18T00:41Z 309.5K followers, 294.3K engagements


"Bengaluru aspires to join the first world but we have the harsh reality of a vast population in poverty whose vote depends on cash transfer schemes even as rural joblessness leads to unchecked migration to Bengaluru. This is not a rant against politicians. My rural life has exposed me to the complexity of India and how our politics reflects it. If I were in politics (and I am glad I am not and I get to work on AI and compilers) I cannot think of a way to win without offering cash transfer. We cannot build great cities when we have a vast rural population desperate to migrate to overcrowded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1924814388789125501)  2025-05-20T13:08Z 310.7K followers, 409.4K engagements


"I am not arguing cash transfer is the best policy. I am saying that given the vast urban rural divide that has only grown ever wider and the joblessness crisis in rural areas cash transfer is the most expedient way to win elections and it is clearly spreading all over India after being "pioneered" in Tamil Nadu. That is why the solution has to start at both ends. Bengaluru's problems don't have solutions only in Bengaluru"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1924832115247751615)  2025-05-20T14:18Z 313.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The urban-rural divide in India arises from this basic economic fact: rural areas run a massive trade deficit vs large urban centers in India. That reflects the degree of value addition in manufacturing and urban-provided services (think health care finance accounting legal) vs the very poor value addition in agriculture. I summarise it as "we sell rice paddy at 25/kg and buy smart phones at [--] lakh/kg". This trade deficit means a persistent cash drain from rural to urban centers and that fuels migration as well as sale of rural land. It also explains the political appeal of cash transfer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1924942079714853288)  2025-05-20T21:35Z 360.7K followers, 96.9K engagements


"We do not really have "rural" areas in India. Even highly rural districts have at least [---] people per sq/km. They would call them suburbs in the West. So industrializing the Ballia district in UP (density of about 1100/sq km) is not like trying to industrialize a rural county with 10/sq km population density in Iowa or Nebraska. This point must be understood before we decide what development models are suitable for us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1925095945643163917)  2025-05-21T07:46Z 310.1K followers, 15.2K engagements


"On my "dangerous Gandhian fantasy" - some basic mathematical facts. A relatively small district like Tenkasi has [---] million people same as the country of Estonia also known as e-stonia very digitally savvy nation in Europe. Ballia district in UP has [---] million people and the country of Lithuania has about [---] million people. Both Estonia and Lithuania have a GDP per capita of about $30K. Estonia's population density is [--] people per sqkm. Lithuania is at 45/sq km. Tenkasi district is at 490/sq km. Ballia weighs in at 1100/sq km. Tell me again why our districts are called "rural" In fact my"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1925135678524031216)  2025-05-21T10:24Z 311.1K followers, 119.6K engagements


"Most of the "network effects" we observed over the last [--] years are the effect of the credit bubble unleashed by the Federal Reserve not some natural consequence of the "free market". Bubbles concentrate They concentrate industry concentrate wealth and concentrate people. Bubbles inflate real estate so much that people can't afford to have kids anywhere. Bubbles destroy demographics. Today even VCs are resigned to being disintermediated by Big Tech as Sequoia Capital observed in its analysis of the AI landscape. Even within Big Tech Google holds most of the cards in AI - they have the best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1925328987213242776)  2025-05-21T23:12Z 310.4K followers, 80.4K engagements


"AI code capabilities are getting better and better. One criticism is "AI is now quite good at generating new code but it is not as good in helping us with a large existing code base" and that is valid. Now I have started to wonder if the answer is "If AI makes us 100x productive why not rewrite the whole thing with AI help" Of course it is not there _yet_ but perhaps not for long. Viewed that way large existing code based may no longer be assets they may be liabilities. Scary thought 😲"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1925731122853339579)  2025-05-23T01:50Z 310.6K followers, 77.6K engagements


"@ShirishChe17 Yes try them. As an example try our Zoho Creator. Even I was surprised how well it does on CRUD apps. Google AI Studio is also quite good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1925732983303963107)  2025-05-23T01:58Z 309.8K followers, [----] engagements


"My mother asked me today (in Tamil) "What is this AI AI everyone is talking about Are you doing it You are traveling and speaking at so many events do you give enough time for work" I said "Amma speaking at events is also work" but she was skeptical. Now the pressure is really on 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1926630344536510694)  2025-05-25T13:24Z 310.9K followers, 230.6K engagements


"In defense of I will point out that there is no product we have built that was ever an instant hit. Even when we were the first mover in a new market and we had done a lot of technical work we only got slow traction. Instant success is neither necessary nor sufficient to succeed long term. Keeping fighting the good fight Sarvam team. http://Sarvam.ai http://Sarvam.ai http://Sarvam.ai http://Sarvam.ai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1926640645436793198)  2025-05-25T14:04Z 310.6K followers, 93.3K engagements


"Software development at its deepest level is the discovery and appropriate use of patterns. Patterns grow larger and more complex and there is no logical end to the size or complexity of patterns. Good programmers learn various patterns and put them to appropriate use. That is not trivial. Great programmers discover beautiful new patterns. That is absolutely not trivial at all. Smart AI is about ingesting a lot of already discovered patterns and suggesting their use. We still require judgment on the part of the programmer to know the appropriate use of a pattern. If used indiscriminately we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1927553129802764483)  2025-05-28T02:30Z 316.5K followers, 87.1K engagements


"I am spending most of my waking hours on this. I am on a read/learn/think/experiment loop. There are multiple levels to what we are doing: [--]. Incorporate AI in our products to offer superior productivity and experience. This is going on in full swing and a lot is already shipping. Summarising information generating insights generating reports are some of the most common use cases. AI suggesting actions to humans is the next one. AI actually performing actions itself is where the hype is but it is not yet common. [--]. Use AI for how we work and how we build products and how we market sell and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1927578682912108576)  2025-05-28T04:12Z 311K followers, 18.4K engagements


"This story shows how much talent is there in Bihar. Aspiring entrepreneurs should take note - if you want to be seriously successful in [--] years you will look at the youthful talent pool in Bihar. [--] IIT aspirants from one villagein ONE year You read that right. Patwa Toli in Bihar has become a quiet revolution in rural education. Behind it: a free volunteer-driven coaching centre Vriksha Sansthan that provides everything from books to laptopsand mentors from IIT https://t.co/PuRYt71NqG [--] IIT aspirants from one villagein ONE year You read that right. Patwa Toli in Bihar has become a quiet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1929496308202582136)  2025-06-02T11:12Z 311.1K followers, 87.3K engagements


"On the subject of AI and jobs: Hypothetically if all software development were to be automated - I want to emphasize that we are _nowhere_ close to that goal - and all software engineers such as myself are out of work it is not like human beings will have nothing to do. The problem is purely economic - how do people afford all the goods that pour out of automated factories that employ no workers There are two possible solutions: [--]. The price of all the robot made goods and all the AI-made and AI-supported software would drop massively and be close to zero or zero. Breathing air costs us zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1931317081989087663)  2025-06-07T11:47Z 311.3K followers, 160.3K engagements


"I submitted the content of my previous post on AI and employment to Google Gemini. Link below. It expands on what I said and adds some nuances (like the cost of energy to produce the goods or run the AI which are substantial and won't be zero). https://g.co/gemini/share/1957cccbe910 On the subject of AI and jobs: Hypothetically if all software development were to be automated - I want to emphasize that we are _nowhere_ close to that goal - and all software engineers such as myself are out of work it is not like human beings will have nothing to do. The https://g.co/gemini/share/1957cccbe910"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1931323998169899496)  2025-06-07T12:14Z 311.3K followers, 41.5K engagements


"Any large organization be it a large company or government is subject to the "head does not know what the tail is doing" problem. Whatever schemes or projects that governments envision at the central or state level by the time they reach a remote village they get diluted often so much that a lot of the allocated money is simply wasted. There is no way to fix it than extensive decentralisation and that is true at the large corporate level and even more true at the government level. We have to strengthen the city district and village level governance and we have to ensure that smart people are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1932232243164131411)  2025-06-10T00:24Z 311.3K followers, 54.6K engagements


"Today the monsoon winds are so strong in our village a palm tree fell. These are very strong trees so strong they are used in traditional homes as cross beams. They even withstand cyclones. This one appears to have a weakened base when we examined it. This is on the path I walk every morning and the tree fell a few minutes after I had walked through today 😲 All life is a gift good day to be thankful 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1934538768771609058)  2025-06-16T09:09Z 311.3K followers, 45.8K engagements


"There cannot be any national sovereignty without technology sovereignty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1936381069793931432)  2025-06-21T11:09Z 311.7K followers, 61.4K engagements


"So many of our employees commute to and from the office in Force Motors vans. I am typing this from one right now We are very happy to partner with them. Thank you Force Motors🙏 🎉 Were happy to partner with Force Motors on their digital transformation journey through Project DigiForce. 😇 Our unified CRM-DMS platform and suite of AI-powered applications will support Force Motors in modernizing customer experience streamlining dealer operations and https://t.co/gLvtNVKa13 🎉 Were happy to partner with Force Motors on their digital transformation journey through Project DigiForce. 😇 Our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1938066387001610381)  2025-06-26T02:46Z 311.4K followers, 45.4K engagements


"There is a vast Bharat that is not obsessed about prestigious credentials not obsessed about speaking perfect English not obsessed about enrolling [--] year old kids (yes) in JEE or NEET coaching and not obsessed about the stock market - it is talent from that Bharat that has the latent creative energy for our national development. That very much includes hard scientific and technical talent. I am so convinced of this proposition that I am dedicating my energy to finding and nurturing that talent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1938863547137868085)  2025-06-28T07:34Z 384.9K followers, 155.2K engagements


"Even a system full of smart people can be meta-stupid. As one concrete example look at what happened at prestigious universities. The smart people end up supplying the endless rationalizations to keep the meta-stupidity from being challenged and that reinforces meta-stupidity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1939152659900178651)  2025-06-29T02:43Z 313.3K followers, 70.2K engagements


"During my last visit to Ballia UP to visit the DSET Public School in Karnai village which we are happy to support I met the DM as well as the Chief Development Officer. The CDO Aojasvi Raj IAS has been keeping me apprised of developments there. I keep track of this region (Purvanchal region eastern UP and Bihar to its east) because it has the demographic potential that is important for the future of our nation. He shared this BBC video about the new Science Labs in all the government schools in the district (video attached). I have been working extremely hard on technical stuff now so I am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1939555802647609840)  2025-06-30T05:25Z 313.3K followers, 37.7K engagements


""To build anything that truly lasts it takes time" The theme of our new campaign in English and Hindi and soon in other languages. Praval Singh and our marketing team have done a great job. Thank you Praval 🙏 Good morning India ❤ While the general mindset around building a business is to move fast and break things we asked how do you stay the course and build one for the long term At @Zoho we chose an unconventional path by taking our time to validate our convictions and https://t.co/FDEpUwmLof Good morning India ❤ While the general mindset around building a business is to move fast and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1939609609632886871)  2025-06-30T08:59Z 313K followers, 59.8K engagements


""We can't mix up everything and then later complain everything is mixed up" I said this to an engineer in the context of a system that is too complex because it has to handle everything. I did not specifically mean LLMs but then realised LLMs intentionally mix up everything and that is their strength and therefore their weakness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1940603106703954431)  2025-07-03T02:46Z 313K followers, 40.1K engagements


"On our big city traffic woes. Extraordinary investment in public transport is required to make our cities work. That brings up a fundamental issue: I believe the investment required *per capita* to support high density scales with the population (that leads to total investment growing as the square of the population 😲). Ultimately this sets a mathematical upper limit on how big cities can get. To state it differently much of the extra GDP arising from such extremely large cities goes to feed the sophisticated infrastructure. This naturally raises the cost of living and that combined with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1941321942126203045)  2025-07-05T02:23Z 313.3K followers, 96.7K engagements


"@balajiworld Los Angeles has the most freeways per capita in the world. They have gone all out to build highways and the drivers maintain lane discipline. Still gridlock. And LA is not even half the population of Mumbai. Very big cities and one-car-per-person cannot work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1941328916171587752)  2025-07-05T02:50Z 311.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Feeling miserable is a form of self-indulgence. Happiness is a choice. I learn this daily here when I see people whose life struggles are a million times worse than anything I have faced and yet they smile and bring cheer to other people. They teach me 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1941658176291750048)  2025-07-06T00:39Z 313.9K followers, 101.4K engagements


"I want to add that Singapore one of the most advanced economies in the world and one of the most livable cities relies extensively on public transport. Singapore also limits the number of private cars through the mechanism of open market trading of Certificate of Entitlement (COE) needed to own a car and the certificate costs more than Singapore $100K (and the car price is on top of that). Indian cities are far more dense than Singapore. We have to build extensive public transport to make our cities livable. It can be done. The [-----] Cr Tunnel Road is a deadweight on Bengaluru designed not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1944973918244364392)  2025-07-15T04:14Z 315.7K followers, 190.6K engagements


"Socialism means the government redistributing economic resources. The whole "compassion" argument is a smokescreen for expanding government power over economic resources. It has failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried including the version tried in India. The Indian constitution was altered during the Emergency to force "socialism" on us. We have to undo this. Socialism isnt wrong because it has compassion. Its wrong because it doesnt work. Socialism isnt wrong because it has compassion. Its wrong because it doesnt work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945309935048511955)  2025-07-16T02:30Z 314.1K followers, 219.9K engagements


"Zurich and Hong Kong are socialist for having public transport And it is somehow socialist for the government to build railways but capitalist for the same government to build highways If you understood what "first principles" even mean you will start with the population density of our cities and then derive solutions that work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945343461034746366)  2025-07-16T04:43Z 312.9K followers, 19.8K engagements


"@balajiworld @TheWand68425335 Singapore builds tunnels and runs a lot of city buses on them. And it has a lot of trains. All that is public transport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945347268447777076)  2025-07-16T04:58Z 312.7K followers, [---] engagements


"We are excited to announce that Al-Ahli Football Club of Saudi Arabia that won the [----] AFC Asia cup will be using the Zoho Customer Experience (CX) suite to enhance their fan engagement and experience. I want to thank Al-Ahli FC for this partnership 🙏 Zoho            .   Zoho     .  https://t.co/0VQrGGvl2q Zoho            .   Zoho     .  https://t.co/0VQrGGvl2q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945460266260709561)  2025-07-16T12:27Z 315.7K followers, 37.7K engagements


"The miracle of China's transformation from the "cheap labor cheap goods" label to world-leading tech-driven industrial prowess is dawning on America's elite. We in India must study China like a diligent student. Unfortunately the ideas that dominate the Indian corporate world are still mostly from American business schools (and often Indian professors). It is those business schools that caused the decline of American prowess by teaching spurious doctrines like "shareholder value". The Chinese (like the Japanese before them) had no fascination with American business schools. We have had"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945670023332466993)  2025-07-17T02:20Z 387.1K followers, 156.3K engagements


"@write2skm That is true and even more true for imported doctrine from American business schools. We must study China diligently and then come up with solutions that fit our conditions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945672275933700208)  2025-07-17T02:29Z 386.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Today's AI press release: http://zurl.co/j0ZcO http://zurl.co/j0ZcO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1945769139722973636)  2025-07-17T08:54Z 315.7K followers, 45.2K engagements


"Pure mathematics carnatic music bharatanatyam classical art sculpture chess or go mridangam classical poetry fine cooking - what is common to all of them (apart from the fact that I am not good in any of them 😁 at least I get to appreciate some of them) We need children to have a decent exposure to these at a young age - not because we expect them to grow up to be brilliant mathematicians or world class chess players or world class chefs but because an exposure to these help them to be good at whatever they end up doing. Exposure does not mean competitive pressure I want to be clear. I won't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1947535763979071641)  2025-07-22T05:54Z 316.9K followers, 276.7K engagements


"This senseless murder of Kavin Selvaganesh a young man who rose from humble rural roots to become a software engineer is shocking. The fact that this murder was allegedly at the behest of a couple who work in the police force is even more shocking. Most of my work outside Zoho is focused on how to achieve a better life for youth exactly like Kavin. I feel a deep sense of pain and shame at these "honour killings" in [----]. We have to do more work at the roots of our society. Suspension is an eyewash Immediate arrest is the minimum the govt must do. #JusticeForKavin  A1 & A2   @CMOTamilnadu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1950219717610000782)  2025-07-29T15:39Z 316.4K followers, 196.3K engagements


"On tech sovereignty we still have a lot of work to do as a nation. As a company we are investing heavily in numerous areas of tech and we have pledged to do even more. The next [--] decades are critical because we have favorable demographics and we have to use all that youthful talent. Even as we seek to build advanced capabilities we need to maintain good international standing. Our government and our Prime Minister are doing a commendable job. It is not in our national interest to pick fights with powerful nations. I hope our entire political class realises this. As a wise statesman counselled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1950469674749337898)  2025-07-30T08:13Z 317.1K followers, 147.8K engagements


"Have you asked how German and French engineers collaborate People learn Tamil over time if they stay in Tamil Nadu. People learn Malayalam if they stay in Kerala. Why is that a hard concept It works everywhere else but someone we assume it will never work here. Just yesterday I met a Malayali in Tenkasi and we managed with a mix of Tamil and Malayalam. It works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1951805969929027728)  2025-08-03T00:43Z 315.8K followers, 15.5K engagements


"@PigsFlying25 Exactly the kind of emotional reaction I predicted. Try to do better. I actually spend day and night working in deep tech. And we are investing heavily. And I promote such investment everywhere I speak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1951806667840278910)  2025-08-03T00:45Z 315.3K followers, 33.9K engagements


"@DhaniSriram China is doing well in AI and all in Chinese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1951814505379549529)  2025-08-03T01:16Z 315.8K followers, 37.1K engagements


"How do you think Koreans learn Physics Korea has about the same population as Kerala (and far fewer kids). All text books are translated. That happens as a matter of course. If we mandate all Tamil Nadu students (rich and poor) to study in Tamil all Physics and Mathematics and much else will be translated and video material will become available. The demand for such content will be met with supply. Evidence is pretty much world-wide. Even small nations with low population manage to translate core text books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1951861668348404199)  2025-08-03T04:24Z 315.7K followers, 15.6K engagements


"This article (link in comment) from India Today by technology editor Javed Anwer spells out some harsh truths on how Indian IT services firms missed the bus. The roots go much deeper. Sadly the intellectual environment in India the kind of people we respected and listened to had a lot to do with this. Just recently Raghuram Rajan advised India that we should focus on services and not manufacturing. I have discussed the damage management gurus like C K Prahalad did to us with bad advice arising from bad philosophy. Let us also not forget the Jagdish Bhagwati school including people like Arvind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1953297115918086421)  2025-08-07T03:28Z 316.5K followers, 163.2K engagements


"India Today link: https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/story/tcs-layoffs-show-indian-it-giants-have-missed-the-bus-job-loss-and-pain-ahead-2765897-2025-08-04 https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/story/tcs-layoffs-show-indian-it-giants-have-missed-the-bus-job-loss-and-pain-ahead-2765897-2025-08-04"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1953297258293715380)  2025-08-07T03:28Z 316.5K followers, 26.6K engagements


"I agree . I am a big fan of Hayek and "the Road to Serfdom" is one of my all time favorites. But as I have argued often global division of labour cannot work for long when fiat currency led imbalances among nations grow without limit. Any nation that goes deep into debt for long surrenders is sovereignty unless that nation has the reserve currency backed with the most powerful military in which case the debts don't matter. Trump did not get elected in a vacuum - his predecessors encouraged this debt-fuelled global division of labour with the unlimited emission of USD as the financing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1953418034414243863)  2025-08-07T11:28Z 315.8K followers, [----] engagements


"We went from the disaster of Nehru/Indira Gandhi socialism to "Waashington Consensus" and what we need was a period of building up our domestic _private sector_ capabilities. South Korea got this. Taiwan got this. The Bhagwati School applied their "free trade" theory to these countries wrongly ignoring the obvious German School influence on them. The biggest sin of the "free trade" crowd (I put it in quotes because debt driven trade is never free) is that they ignored the role of money particularly the role of USD. Academic distinctions between trade economics vs monetary economics (bullshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1953444968829452698)  2025-08-07T13:15Z 315.8K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Must read comment. There are millions of Indian youth who assume they are not good because they cannot master fluent English. That is the potential talent pool we are wasting. English as a status symbol (as distinct from _English as a useful language_) has to go from our national psyche and it can only go if our educated elite make it a priority to revive our languages. It is our duty to our countrymen. @svembu Sridhar as someone who went from a tier-4 town to an IIT without the stain of convent education and eventually learned to speak English in the US but whose first linguistic pride is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1953535083861938525)  2025-08-07T19:13Z 316.5K followers, 87.6K engagements


"On our AI use as of August [----]. I use AI chat tools daily at least 2-3 sessions a day. So I would count myself as a moderate to heavy user. I have the top [--] apps installed in my phone and I use all of them (see item 2). [--]. AI helps me learn faster. It is a much better search engine in that sense. My web search has gone down 80% as a direct result. [--]. AI is a very good debating partner to have and we can use them to debate each other too. I often take the output of one AI and ask another AI to critique it and that deepens my understanding. [--]. AI can enhance product experience (like how Grok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1955821335374073909)  2025-08-14T02:38Z 316.8K followers, 82.7K engagements


"On the specific topic of LLM assisted coding it is the most hotly debated topic in Hacker News. Here is a recent thread that captures a variety of experiences both for and against AI. https://news.ycombinator.com/itemid=44847741 https://news.ycombinator.com/itemid=44847741"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1955825041888940516)  2025-08-14T02:53Z 316.5K followers, 19.8K engagements


"I just came back from Independence Day celebrations in our Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam school filled with cultural programs patriotic songs sweets and (mercifully for students) a short speech where I told our students that preserving our hard-won independence means working hard to master Mathematics and Science and how those subjects connect to drones advanced materials AI fighter jets and software. I told them they must emulate our beloved former President Abdul Kalam-ji as a scientist. Jai Hind. Bharat Mata ki Jai. 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1956217429690023949)  2025-08-15T04:52Z 316.5K followers, 109.1K engagements


"@Truelight1947 @Arattai Do you use Xiaomi or Huawei Do you think they are easy brand names"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1956217830250307986)  2025-08-15T04:54Z 316.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Boson Motors with R&D/assembly based in Chennai is starting to ship electric vehicles to the US farm market. Video testimonial by a farmer at CamFlor flower farm in Watsonville CA. Zoho is an investor in Boson and it has taken the team many years of hard engineering work to get here. Our farmers use them in Tenkasi and they are quite sturdy vehicles that tackle rough terrain and mud well Congratulations Arun Seelam and the Boson team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1956537324134978037)  2025-08-16T02:03Z 316.5K followers, 30.7K engagements


""LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare" The title says it all. The article goes on to explain how these problems are fundamental. I posted about now I use LLMs last week (basically to teach myself new topics and I ask multiple LLMs to review each other's output too). I personally do not use AI coding agents and I have given the same advice to our developers to be very cautious on them. Our stance is that LLM generated code should never get into production without full scale human review particularly security review and once you include those reviews productivity gains are elusive."  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1957201639749923193)  2025-08-17T22:03Z 316.8K followers, 50K engagements


"From the quoted tweet. China is run by engineers while the US is run by lawyers. From Dan Wangs new book. Interesting thesis. Engineers do tend to think in terms of solving problems. Lawyers profit when there are unsolvable problems. https://t.co/aPlie8vZPW From Dan Wangs new book. Interesting thesis. Engineers do tend to think in terms of solving problems. Lawyers profit when there are unsolvable problems. https://t.co/aPlie8vZPW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1957590398055887125)  2025-08-18T23:48Z 316.8K followers, 63K engagements


"Asha-ji I am going to have to disagree. What happened is a short term challenge but could prove to be a long term blessing. We did not ask for it but we must accept it and make the most of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1962084854356652332)  2025-08-31T09:27Z 317.4K followers, 94K engagements


"@l_nehru_1947 NYT 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1962089642288889913)  2025-08-31T09:46Z 316.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Cutting taxes to stimulate domestic demand and encouraging investment in domestic production so the increased domestic demand creates employment - exactly the right mix. We could afford this mix precisely because our government has been generally prudent. We will show them what a "dead economy" looks like. PM @NarendraModi ji's historic Diwali gift for all Heartiest congratulations to PM Modi ji and FM @NSitharaman ji on the introduction of the #NextGenGST reforms duly supported by the @GST_Council in line with the Union Governments proposals on GST rate cuts and reforms."  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1963432373296796038)  2025-09-04T02:42Z 317.7K followers, 130K engagements


"Americans are waking up to the damage caused by ultra-processed foods. Meanwhile in India we are actively looking to grow the food-processing industry. Food is medicine and there is no point industrializing food. An important point of bringing technology R&D to rural areas is to enable us to balance the regional economy so farmers get paid better and smart people engage in farming and we get quality food. Michaeleen Doucleff decided she and her daughter would go off ultra-processed foods for a month. The results surprised her. https://t.co/nNkfDKlFJ0 Michaeleen Doucleff decided she and her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1963860410689609788)  2025-09-05T07:03Z 317.9K followers, 80.4K engagements


"@twtlikeakhiladi We are on it. Thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1964163545093873803)  2025-09-06T03:07Z 317.8K followers, 27.4K engagements


"Frustrated US farmer quoted in the link in comment: Seed chemicals or fertilizer its all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town. You want to fix farming Start a federal investigation on those big companies. Booming quarterly earnings and big stock dividends make no sense when farmers cant pinch a penny. The trade issue between US and India is partly also a conflict between the US model that pits farmers against BigAg vs the large number of small farmers in India. We must note that the US BigAg model is not even working for American farmers nor is it leading to better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1965602549492580556)  2025-09-10T02:25Z 386.5K followers, 221K engagements


"Link https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1965602715486257254)  2025-09-10T02:26Z 387.7K followers, 40.5K engagements


"We are very happy to host our Honorable Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan-ji at our Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam school today in Tenkasi. We discussed how rural schooling based on the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) model that combines education and skill development can work across our nation. He also visited our Zoho Schools of Learning in Tenkasi and learned about our alternative to conventional college education. https://x.com/dpradhanbjp/status/1969273388951822813 https://x.com/dpradhanbjp/status/1969273388951822813"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1969344401697579113)  2025-09-20T10:14Z 353.9K followers, [----] engagements


"". my guess is that if the US seeks meaningful sovereignty or preeminence in any of drones robotics solar batteries pharma etc. we need to bite the bullet and win at manufacturing across the board." -- Patrick Collison CEO of Stripe. This is exactly true for India as well. Our national sovereignty and national security not to mention our prosperity all depend on us having a broad and deep manufacturing ecosystem. Advanced manufacturing touches every area of science and technology. The stakes for India are even higher. Given the [--] million babies born per year in India vs [--] million in China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1969928489131499945)  2025-09-22T00:55Z 387K followers, 191.8K engagements


"@swarnapriyaa Please post on what would you like to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1971559492983939341)  2025-09-26T12:56Z 351.4K followers, [----] engagements


"My brother Kumar wrote a post titled: "How patient execution beats aggressive capital" which is a must read for entrepreneurs: Kumar started the company in Chennai that eventually became the Zoho today. Practically every senior manager at Zoho was personally recruited fresh from college and trained by Kumar back in the 1990s. Zoho would not exist without Kumar. I want to quote this gem from his post: " (the hare can win) (the tortoise can also win)  (but not trying never wins)" The word "Muyalaamai" in Tamil combines "muyal" (rabbit or hare) and "aamai" (tortoise) and it also means "not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972126546203754660)  2025-09-28T02:29Z 383.9K followers, 348.1K engagements


"@Enigma_in8 @Arattai @Zoho Yes end to end will be rolled out soon. It is in testing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972126759081685345)  2025-09-28T02:30Z 373.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"@ruchitgarg @Arattai @Zoho Thank you Ruchit our team will take all this feedback and turn around quickly. We are working flat out 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972137197710233947)  2025-09-28T03:12Z 377.9K followers, 28K engagements


"@IndexofGujarat @Arattai Yes we will make you proud. Thank you 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972192555514450004)  2025-09-28T06:52Z 382.6K followers, 38.4K engagements


"@BishnoiRinkle @Arattai This feature work to hide your phone number from people not in your contacts I believe. Will check with the team if they hide it also from people in your contacts. That may not have been the design intent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972438896819732843)  2025-09-28T23:10Z 371.5K followers, 80K engagements


"@ganeshunwired Thank you for the detailed post. Yes that is the plan. We want to get the basics of messaging right (privacy chat calls video .) and then make this a platform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972439986135085193)  2025-09-28T23:15Z 361.3K followers, 18.2K engagements


"@isurajitpatra Yes we will do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972442504609124557)  2025-09-28T23:25Z 380.5K followers, 75.3K engagements


"@satyashanti79 Yes thank you. The only issue is that in public markets private equity and other such financial players would get in and they would want "shareholder value" That pressure eventually leads company managements to focus only on numbers to please them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972443859310534898)  2025-09-28T23:30Z 352.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@avjoshi2408 Yes good idea. We will find a way to support this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972493836669902973)  2025-09-29T02:49Z 355.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@iRadhikaGupta @Arattai Thank you Ma'am much appreciated 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972647581001101327)  2025-09-29T13:00Z 371.3K followers, 15.7K engagements


"@Kushagraw12 Yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972831447389294721)  2025-09-30T01:10Z 371.3K followers, 42.1K engagements


"@InvestRepeat Take a look at Zillum which is a family plan of the Zoho suite. We are planning big things around it. https://www.zillum.com/ https://www.zillum.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972851303824138621)  2025-09-30T02:29Z 382.5K followers, 48.1K engagements


"@prakash_pov Yes it will stay as a free service. We do a lot of R&D to reduce the compute bandwidth storage and energy foot print (cost) to operate for these services. We can do things quite efficiently long term"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1972898512707932544)  2025-09-30T05:37Z 383.5K followers, 128.8K engagements


"@Renjithmohan7 Yes the contact sync issue will be addressed today. It is due to extreme load and we are distributing the load better now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973252770317869363)  2025-10-01T05:04Z 368.6K followers, 13.1K engagements


"@stonksandfacts Yes that is always the risk. We will do our best to keep the service functioning well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973253074937585789)  2025-10-01T05:06Z 368.5K followers, 26.2K engagements


"@itsnateriver We are working on it. We had planned it for Oct end originally before this vertical take off. We are speeding it up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973253863982637395)  2025-10-01T05:09Z 366.4K followers, 38.9K engagements


"JioLEAP team recorded this video a few weeks ago. On Gandhi Jayanti day remembering him🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973608435271844171)  2025-10-02T04:38Z 386.9K followers, 135.9K engagements


"Full video: https://youtu.be/goAcnXCbzgE https://youtu.be/goAcnXCbzgE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973608816018334199)  2025-10-02T04:39Z 387.1K followers, 106.6K engagements


"@cnha Thank you Yes we want Arattai to offer the best experience in the world and be the most trusted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1973726129132630127)  2025-10-02T12:25Z 381K followers, 42.8K engagements


"@anandmahindra @Arattai Thank you so much this means a lot 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974385777066061858)  2025-10-04T08:07Z 383.9K followers, 80.4K engagements


"@ketansapovadiya Yes we know it needs a lot of fixes. Today we had a review and we are going to do this one by one. Thanks for your feedback will post in our internal group (hosted on Arattai now we eat our own dogfood)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974414749761941932)  2025-10-04T10:02Z 382.5K followers, 53.4K engagements


"@abhi_nair Zoho has the staying power. We don't worry about "will the excitement wear off" - we are focused on how to offer the best experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974423082451567001)  2025-10-04T10:35Z 383.9K followers, 78K engagements


"@InvestRepeat @anandmahindra Our focus is privacy. We will not adopt a business model that puts privacy at risk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974424614601363647)  2025-10-04T10:41Z 383.3K followers, 35.3K engagements


"@itsanirudhsingh @Arattai We have made lots of updates on the server side - we do them daily. On the app side we need to test more and we also cannot ask users to update the app too often"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974433320483291532)  2025-10-04T11:16Z 381.1K followers, 35.1K engagements


"You understand what Arattai means in Tamil so you associate the informal/fun element. For people who don't know Tamil it is just a funky sounding word that people struggle to pronounce at first and then it becomes easy We also have Zoho Cliq for enterprise chat that competes with the likes of Slack and MS Teams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974625509633110504)  2025-10-04T23:59Z 382.5K followers, 71K engagements


"@avakayii We are working on perfecting it. Thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1974747415426322818)  2025-10-05T08:04Z 383.3K followers, 27.4K engagements


"@FI_InvestIndia @ZohoMail @Zoho Thank you for your feedback We will look at your suggestions and see how we can implement them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/1976481614994735118)  2025-10-10T02:55Z 387K followers, 47.6K engagements


"@ashokakash we don't look at GPA at least that is the policy I have set. Please send me mail at svembu at zoho . I will look into this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/378955188054134784)  2013-09-14T18:55Z 376.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Zoho Mail engineers at [--] AM in India after releasing the new version. Thanks team http://t.co/nz6dzc5jCz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/svembu/status/649347977513844736)  2015-09-30T22:19Z 382.5K followers, [---] engagements

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