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Founded in 1999 before cloud was a buzzword, Shmunis built RingCentral into a $2 billion-revenue communications platform serving millions worldwide — a 25-year bet on replacing on-premise phone systems that paid off decisively during the pandemic.
Vlad Shmunis is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of RingCentral, the cloud business communications platform he founded in 1999.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Shmunis immigrated to the United States and built RingCentral on the bet that business phone systems would move to the cloud. The company went public in 2013 and now generates over $2 billion in annual revenue serving businesses from small companies to Fortune 500 enterprises.
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