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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan’s Story THE PANDEMIC LIFE SAVER THAT ALMOST NEVER EXISTED
In the 1990s, Eric Yuan had a promising career in China with a master’s degree in engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology. Then, the young engineer heard a speech by Bill Gates in 1994 — and it changed the trajectory of his life. Eric decided he wanted to move to the U.S. and become part of the growing dot-com industry, but his visa application was rejected eight times — a highly demoralizing experience for anyone. By the time he was approved, it took two more years to process. Finally, he got a job at WebEx in 1997, and a decade later, he became their vice president of engineering. In March 2007, the same year as his promotion. Cisco Systems acquired Webex for $3.2 billion. Eric thrived in this transition and rose to become the corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco Systems. It wasn’t until 2012 that Yuan finally pursued a dream that he’d had ever since he was in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend in college: Zoom.
In an interview with Thrive Global, Eric said that Zoom started as a daydream as a solution to his long-distance relationship that required a 10-hour train ride to see each other. With Eric’s tremendous experience with Silicon Valley communication systems, he created the communication platform Zoom. Today, Zoom is used by over 750,000 companies to keep teams connected through video and audio conferencing, collaborative workspaces, chat, and more! Having real-time communication makes it incredibly easy to connect with people, even if they’re thousands of miles away. It’s the perfect product that Eric would’ve wanted — and if he’d given up while applying for a visa, who knows if we would’ve had a video conferencing platform as professional, efficient, and easy to use (for hundreds of people at a time) as Zoom?
Thanks, Eric Yuan, for never giving up on coming to America — you’re a huge inspiration to us all!
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