Sridhar Vembu says Zoho will make Arattai interoperable like UPI: ‘Do not want to be a monopoly ever’

Zoho’s Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu on September 30 clarified that he wants the company’s breakout messaging app to be “interoperable like UPI and email” and not closed like rival WhatsApp. In a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Vembu added: “We do not want to be a monopoly ever”.

Sridhar Vembu on his vision for Arattai

In a post on X, early on September 30, Vembu wrote, “On Arattai, we have initiated discussions with Sharad Sharma of iSpirt, the group that did the technical work to make UPI happen, to standardize and…