On the Padma Shree award, it is a huge honor and I feel humbled. I dedicate this to our employees, my extended family, for keeping the faith.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) January 26, 2021
I want to thank friends and well-wishers for all your messages that have poured in. Your support keeps me going. 🙏🙏🙏
Sridhar Vembu, a successful entrepreneur, has been an inspiration to many in India and the world. In the backdrop of India’s independence day in 2020 and the lanch of Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission by the Government of India, we had invited him to share his thoughts on decentralized economic growth. Here is the video:
Here is a collection of thought-provoking series of tweets on myriad issues:
1/ I hugely respect East Asia's achievement in lifting people from poverty. There is a lot to learn from the experience of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and later China.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) August 2, 2020
In this thread, I will outline what I respectfully disagree about the East Asian model (respectfully stressed!)
1/ From extensive experience, I have come to oppose credentials driven education and it's counterpart, metrics driven management. I have opposed them on the ground that humans are not widgets.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 26, 2020
Here are two books, coming from unorthodox university professors that I recommend.
1/ Concentration of activity in industry and agriculture (even coffee shops!) is justified by economic theory on the grounds of economies of scale.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 26, 2020
That's the idea that the per unit cost of a product drops with rising scale of production. It is true to a point but oversold.
