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Apr 25, 2020 · EXCLUSIVE: Chinese founder Eric Yuan used love as his inspiration for Zoom in the late 1980s. Now, as it enjoys massive success across the globe, shareholders say it would be worth more if it...
- Peter Sheridan
Yuan married his girlfriend, Sherry, at the age of 22, while he was a master's student at China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing. [9] They have three children. One of his children is Roy Yuan, who plays on the Stanford basketball team and has a YouTube channel with over 40,000 subscribers. [25]
Eric Yuan got into collaboration technology for personal reasons. When he was dating his now-wife in his native China, he would take 10-hour train rides from college to see her.
Sep 9, 2020 · Back when he still lived in China, Yuan and his girlfriend were enrolled in two different colleges that were separated by a 10-hour train ride, according to Fortune. The two later got married.
- Henry Blodget
Mar 31, 2020 · 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. Now Zoom is booming, just 11 months after it made its debut on the stock market.
- mliedtke@ap.org
- Technology Writer
Jun 27, 2018 · I first envisioned Zoom while I was a college student in China in the late ‘80s, and would take over 10-hour (each way) train rides to visit my girlfriend (now my wife). My desire for an easier way to see her face-to-face without the arduous travel became the impetus for my long path from student to entrepreneur.
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Aug 13, 2020 · When Eric Yuan was a university student in China, he grew tired of taking 10-hour train rides to visit his girlfriend. He came up with the idea of a video conferencing application.
