Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market

Oct 28, 2020

48:18

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Do You Have Any Fears About Stigma?

01:56

What Made Eric Stand Out From the Crowd?

02:18

Founders

01:55

Introduction

4min

How Do You Know if You're in an Intensely Crushed Space?

3min

Do You Have a Video Conferencing Platform?

2min

Founders

2min

How Much of Your Time Is Expended on Engineering?

3min

The Mentor Ini Yo Denote Speed

3min

Are You the First Latin v C?

3min

How Did You Get Your First Investors?

3min

What Made Eric Stand Out From the Crowd?

2min

10.

How Many Hours Do You Work Everyday?

2min

11.

Zoom, When Was It the Most Enjoyable?

2min

12.

What if We Can Inovate?

2min

13.

How to Deal With Competitors Like Alphabet

2min

14.

How to Be a Unicorn?

3min

15.

How Do You Know if You Can't Succeed in Ten Years?

3min

16.

Do You Love Your Job?

2min

17.

What You Can't Control, Just Let Go

2min

18.

Do You Have Any Fears About Stigma?

2min

19.

Is There Any Advice for Your 20 Year Old Self?

2min

20.

Stanford E Corner

58sec

After growing and leading the team that developed WebEx, Eric Yuan left his role as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco in 2011 to found Zoom Video Communications. Santiago Subotovsky, a general partner at Emergence Capital, led his firm’s investment in Zoom. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Ravi Belani, they discuss what drove Zoom and how they built the confidence to launch this new company into an already crowded video conferencing market.