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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.
- mliedtke@ap.org
- Technology Writer
Apr 13, 2022 · Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan on confronting one of the biggest business challenges of our time: connecting the world, nearly overnight.
- Taking Inspiration from Gates
- Starting Out in The States
- The Growth of Zoom
- The Impact of Covid-19
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...
Jul 11, 2022 · Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011, after working as an engineer at Cisco’s WebEx for more than a decade. Zoom — which Yuan called his “first kid” during our interview — was born not just out of...
In 2020, Zoom became a lifeline for fostering community at a moment of acute isolation.
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Jun 3, 2024 · Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
