Eric Yuan, SEP ’06, Founder and CEO, Zoom, was interviewed by Professor Jennifer Aaker for Stanford GSB's Business and Society class. In the interview they discussed the impact of COVID-19 on tech and how we communicate.
Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together to get more done in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprise companies communicate. Under his leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.
Yuan has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). Also in 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50, as a leader who changed the game in global business. Yuan is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
