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After being denied a U.S. visa eight times, Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 and built the platform that scaled from 10 million to 300 million daily participants during the pandemic — turning his company's name into a verb.
Eric Yuan is Founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, which he started in 2011 after 14 years at Cisco WebEx.
Zoom went public in 2019 and grew from 10 million to 300 million daily meeting participants during the pandemic. Yuan was named Time's Businessperson of the Year in 2020 and has expanded Zoom into phone, chat, and AI-powered meeting summaries.
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