It’s difficult to believe, given how far we’ve come, that Zukmo’s alpha launch was just a little over a year ago. With the tremendous pace at which things have been progressing we’ve seldom had the time to sit down and reflect on the events that actually led up to where we are today.
Zukmo’s story really began with our CEO, Sekar Vembu. As a co-founder and business unit head for the now wildly successful Zoho Corporation (formerly known as AdventNet), Sekar’s experience and reputation for excellence truly preceded him when he finally left to found Vembu Technologies in 2004, a now highly acclaimed, award winning backup and cloud storage provider, and also our parent company.
As the leader of a thriving organization in a very competitive industry Sekar did (and still does) a lot of online research to stay ahead of the competition and market. Over the course of the first four years managing Vembu, this pool of information (which he used to make critical business decisions) became increasingly scattered and unmanageable. As a result, he quickly set out to find a solution. With no information management tools comprehensive enough to keep track of his research, notes, subscriptions, accounts, customers, and everything else he knew that he couldn’t be alone in the need for something better, and so the idea to create the Zukmo solution was born.
Now, we frequently receive numerous questions about how we received our name and we’ll start by saying that much thought went into it. So much so, in fact, that for several months during the early development phase Zukmo was just known as the “information overload product”. It wasn’t until our former director, Kumar Krishnasami, stumbled upon the novel Lojban word Zukmo’i, which means “to remember doing something”, that he finally committed to a name. The roadmap and goals at the time outlined a tool that could organize and remember everything so that you wouldn’t have to. Our CEO Sekar then aptly coined the slogan “Remember Nothing, Zukmo Everything!” Needless to say, the current roadmap has changed considerably and is continuously evolving as we learn more about what we can do to simplify the process of information management for our users.
Since last year, under the newly appointed directorship of Sai Venkat, Zukmo has reached milestones that have broadened the scope and horizon of Zukmo to our valued customers. We’re happily neck-deep in plans for added features and product integrations and we’d love to hear your suggestions for further improving the Zukmo suite of tools. Of course, we can’t think of everything, and Zukmo really is built for you! If you have any feedback or recommendations we’d love to hear them, so feel free to email us at feedback@zukmo.com! We look forward to hearing from you!
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