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Eric S Yuan [5] (Chinese: 袁征; pinyin: Yuán Zhēng; born 20 February 1970) is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Video Communications, of which he owns 22%.
Mar 31, 2020 · The crisis has cast a spotlight on Zoom, a company founded nine years ago by its CEO Eric Yuan after he defected from Cisco Systems and took about 40 engineers with him. He wanted to refine a concept he first dreamed up during the 1990s as a college student in China, when he dreaded the 10-hour train trips to see his then-girlfriend, now his wife.
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- Starting Out in The States
- The Growth of Zoom
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After completing his undergraduate degree, Yuan embarked on a master’s degree in geology engineering from China University of Mining and Technology in Bejing. He continued to live in Bejing following his master’s degree and attended training sessions in Japan for four months. It was in Japan where Yuan saw Bill Gates speak at a conference in 1995 w...
WebEx was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007 and at the same time, Yuan became vice president of engineering. Just four years later Yuan pitched a new smart-phone friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. The company rejected Yuan’s idea so the entrepreneur left to establish his own company, Zoom Video Communications in 2011. Originall...
After years of development, Zoom became one of the most widely used web-conferencing products in the world. Over 40 million had used the platform and the company had gained more than 2,500 academic customers since 2015. "During the early stages of Zoom, I personally emailed every customer who cancelled our service," Yuan said in an interview with T...
The COVID-19 pandemic saw more and more people and businesses turn to Zoom for business meetings or to catch up with family and friends during isolation. This acceleration saw Yuan’s wealth increase and as of September 2020 his estimated net worth was around US$16.4bn, a figure 360% higher than his net worth at the beginning of the year. During the...
Jun 5, 2020 · With as many as 300m meeting participants each day at the peak in April, the crisis has thrust Mr Yuan into the limelight, capping his rise as a rare Chinese-born leader of a hit Silicon...
Apr 13, 2022 · As COVID spread like invisible wildfire and the world went into lockdown, Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan saw his company’s mandate change in real time. Zoom was already a thriving company that had gone public the previous year—but video conferencing was no longer just a business tool.
Apr 25, 2020 · Eric Yuan devised the platform as a humdrum corporate communications app, never anticipating it would become a lifeline for the locked down.
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Apr 24, 2020 · 50-year-old Eric Yuan has sky rocketed from relative Silicon Valley anonymity into the Forbes annual list of billionaires this month. Why? For he is the chief executive and founder of Zoom, the conference calling app that has gone from being a souped up office tool to an every-office necessity.
