How Zoom Won 2020 by Meeting a Surge of DemandCEO Eric Yuan never expected the business tool to become a social lifeline. But by focusing on fundamentals, the brand rose to the occasion.
ByJason Feifer•
This story appears in theDecember 2020issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
It was a Monday morning in mid-March. Schools in California had just gone remote, and Eric Yuan's daughter was settling in for the first day of her new routine. Then she turned to him and, like kids were doing with their parents everywhere, asked him for help usingZoom.
"She'd never asked me a question about Zoom!" says Yuan. Nor had he ever expected her to, even though he is the company's founder andCEO. "When we created Zoom, thegoalwas to serve enterprise and business customers. I never thought about my kid having to use Zoom."
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