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One sweetspot Zoho I think has been in more from fortunate circumstances was grinding away as a GSuite competitor for years on years without the wasteful budgets or engineering egos of Silicon Valley.

This way they naturally had to focus on core features more, which they did well enough, and understanding vertical integration as one of the main pillars of their organizational culture.




> engineering egos of Silicon Valley

They started off in Pleasanton and still have a massive presence there. Zoho ads are very common on Bart as well.

Most companies in the Bay Area are similar in style to Zoho. The ego driven OpenAIs tend to be outliers.




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