1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR

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Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Eric S. Yuan is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Zoom. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at WebEx, Eric was the heart and soul of the WebEx product from 1997 to 2011. Eric proudly grew the WebEx team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide, and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real time collaboration. In 2017, Eric joined the Forbes Tech Council and was added to the Business Insider list of the 52 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech. Eric is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,
0:38.6	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.7	Hello, everyone.
0:49.6	My guest today is Eric Wan.
0:51.4	He's the founder and chief executive officer of Zoom,
0:54.0	which many of you, I'm sure, have heard of. We're going to jump into that in a chief executive officer of Zoom, which many of you
0:54.5	I'm sure have heard of. We're going to jump into that in a second. But before Zoom, he was corporate
0:57.8	vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software
1:01.8	development. As one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at WebEx, he was the
1:06.6	heart and sold the WebEx product from 97 to 2011. He grew that team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue
1:13.6	growth from zero to more than 800 million.
1:16.6	He was named Inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time corroboration.
1:21.6	And in 2017, he joined the Forbes Tech Council and was added to the Business Insider list of the
1:25.6	52 most powerful people in enterprise
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