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Zoho founder urges parents to let kids skip college and work
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Fri, 05, Dec 2025
- 00:32 EST
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Sridhar Vembu / Sridhar Vembu via X
Indian tech moghul and founder of Zoho Corporations, Sridhar Vembu, has endorsed the controversial trend of skipping colleges and moving straight to work.
Vembu, the founder and chief scientist of Zoho Corporation, bootstrapped the cloud software giant from a 1996 startup in California into a $5.8 billion enterprise serving clients like Netflix and PayPal.
The IIT Madras and Princeton PhD alumnus also championed rural India by relocating Zoho offices to Tamil Nadu villages and funding schools for underprivileged youth, earning him the Padma Shri in 2021.
Reacting to news of Colorado based Tech company, Palantir's, decision to offer 22 students the opportunity to skip college for its fellowship, Vembu said, "Smart American students now skip going to college and forward-thinking employers are enabling them. This is going to be a profound cultural shift."
Smart American students now skip going to college and forward-thinking employers are enabling them. This is going to be a profound cultural shift. This is the real "youth power", enabling young men and women to stand on their own feet, without having to incur heavy debt to get a… https://t.co/qrtuWnCx5n
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) December 3, 2025
Vembu highlighted the difference that a younger-workforce makes and said, "In Tenkasi, I closely work with a technical team whose median age is 19. Their energy and can-do spirit is infectious. I have to work hard to keep up with them!"
Hoping to emulate this model in India, Vembu appealed, "I would urge educated Indian parents and high schoolers, as well as leading companies to pay attention."
Vembu further announced that his company, Zoho, has adopted a similar model and requires no college degree for any role.
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