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S6E1: Eric Yuan on Keeping Customers, and Employees, Happy

Stanford GSB: View From The Top

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How Did You Come Up With the Idea for Zoom?

Zoom was founded by former Cisco vice president and WebEx founding engineer. He came to the United States in 1997, but his visa application got rejected 80 times. "Every morning when I woke up, I did not want to go to office," he says of Zoom's early days.

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