Zoho Corporation’s founder and chief scientist, Sridhar Vembu, announced that he will be taking a temporary break from external engagements to focus on his core technical work.
In a post shared on his official X account on 15 October 2025, Vembu admitted that he had “fallen behind” on a coding project he had committed to complete. “I have to ship some code I had committed to ship and I have fallen behind,” he wrote, adding that he would “take a break from external engagements after this week.”
The entrepreneur, known for his advocacy of deep technology development and the successful run of Arattai, said he wanted to ensure that his actions matched his words. “I cannot do both deep tech work (which I am preaching constantly about in my external engagements) and then only do the preaching and not practising it myself,” he said, describing his decision as necessary to uphold his personal principle: “do not preach what you do not practise.”
“I am sorry to have to impose this hard restriction but I cannot do both deep tech work (which I am preaching constantly about in my external engagements) and then only do the preaching and not practising it myself. That would contradict my dictum “do not preach what you do not practise” and I am at the risk of only preaching and not practising,” stated Vembu.
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