Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu congratulated Indian-American businessman Sriram Krishnan on being named the White House's Senior Policy Advisor on AI. Adding that he came across Sriram's blog in 2004, he said, "I was so impressed I wanted to recruit him but Microsoft already had recruited him." "Thank you Sridhar. You've been an inspiration to [Aarthi Ramamurthy] and me," Sriram replied.