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Re:They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build by sridharvembu on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:02AM (#5837149)
Our people are prominently mentioned in our press releases. We respond on our forums, on twitter, on forums like this. The reason for the lack of a "management team" page is that we don't the org chart typical companies do. First, there are geographic divisions - India/US/China/Japan where we have offices which run fairly autonomously, and second there are product divisions, which also run fairly autonomously. A private company can operate this way (with a fair degree of autonomy in teams) that a public company cannot.

I have made presentations on the history of the company before. Here is a public document on this:

https://docs.zoho.com/show/published.do?rid=s0uyx6d6a7e9c859...

It isn't like we are famous or anything ;) which was why we don't go around touting it!

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Re:They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build by clicks on Friday June 07, 2013 @03:18AM (#5837691)
> The reason for the lack of a "management team" page is that we don't the org chart typical companies do.

Would you say Zoho abides by open allocation for its workers? [1] I'd love to hear more about the organizational structure of the company.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/11/26/what-is-open-al...

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Re:They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build by sridharvembu on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:09PM (#5841373)
We believe in fair degree of autonomy and tight-knit teams. I won't call it "open allocation" because we encourage people to stick to a particular work for a reasonable period to really excel at it (experience being the best teacher), but people do have the ability to transfer to other teams, or even across functional boundaries (engineering to marketing etc). The goal is to maximize mutual chemistry and cohesion, maximize autonomy. Our attrition rate tends to be very low, in spite of (or perhaps because of) there being no "golden handcuff".
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