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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]
Godfrey Gao (Chinese: 高以翔; pinyin: Gāo Yǐxiáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ko Í-siông; 22 September 1984 – 27 November 2019) was a Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor. Described as Asia's first male supermodel, [2][3] Gao was the first male Asian model to appear in a campaign for Louis Vuitton.
Mar 9, 2021 · Zoom founder Eric Yuan has transferred about 18 million of his shares worth more than $6bn (£4.4bn), according to a regulatory filing.
- Justin Harper
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.
- 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...
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.
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Zoom's founder and CEO, Eric Yuan, chatted with Business Insider's co-editor in chief Alyson Shontell at the Web Summit Conference to discuss Zoom's rocketship growth during the pandemic and...
