Eric Yuan is the Founder and CEO of Zoom. He was born and raised in Tai’an, Shandong Province, China.

His parents were mining engineers which contributed to him pursuing a similar degree in college. While in fourth grade, young Eric collected construction scraps and segregated the copper in exchange for cash.
Yuan moved to Japan to attend a training program after spending most of his education years in Beijing. At around 1995 in Tokyo, he came across Microsoft founder Bill Gates who was delivering a speech on the 21st century tech boom.
Yuan was inspired by Gates’ message and was now convinced to move to the United States and build his career at Silicon Valley. But moving to the U.S. proved to be difficult at the beginning as it took him two years and eight visa applications before finally getting accepted into the country.
On his ninth attempt, Yuan eventually got his visa application approved and immediately moved to the U.S. to join web conferencing startup WebEx as a software engineer. At the time, he was 27 years old and was one of the company’s first 20 hires.
Yuan Founded the company "Zoom" In 2020, Zoom became one of the most successful companies in the world.

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