- Legend says that the idea of establishing Zoom emerged in Eric Yuan‘s (founder and CEO of Zoom) mind, to deal with the frustration of a 10-hour train journey – in each direction – in order to visit his company.
- Legend 2: When Yuan came to pitch the idea of video calls to his employer in those days – Cisco – he was gently rejected.
- Zoom was established in 2011. In May 2013 it had one million participants. In March 2020 (the peak of the Covid pandemic), the number of participants in Zoom calls jumped to 300 million people a day.
- “Zoom”, like Aspirin, Sellotape, or Google, has been genericized and become a common verb in countless languages (“Let’s zoom”).
- 8 of the 10 largest US banks use Zoom, as well as more than half of the world’s largest banks.
- Half a million businesses, organizations, and educational and government institutions worldwide have chosen Zoom for their critical communications: 70% of these companies are on the Fortune 100 list.
- 9 of the top 10 US hospitals use Zoom, as well as 8 of the 10 largest US health systems and 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world.
- 46 of the top 50 global universities and 98% of the top 50 US universities use Zoom daily.
- Eric Yoan’s motto, which he repeats in every interview: Sustainable happiness comes from making others happy
- The annual customer conference – Zootopia 2021 – was opened by Eric Yuan with a Tiktok dance.