THE Grill: Sridhar Vembu

摘要

In an interview, Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and CEO, Zoho Corp, talked about the myths of traditional education. According to Vembu, when he came to the US, his goal was to be a professor. But during the course of his studies, he got turned off by the way the academic world works. There is a certain level of abstraction for its own sake, and even in engineering it's become true. The field is highly mathematical, almost to the point where the math has become a kind of Sanskrit. Math is essential, but they've gone too far in that direction. It's become a kind of tool to show off. He said Zoho University is highly intensive training. Attendees spend eight to nine hours a day learning and experimenting. A lot of education today takes a kid who's 18, 19 years old and asks them to focus on something really boring.