Yuan still worked there, and he moved up the corporate ladder to become the Vice President of Engineering. In 2007, Cisco System bought the company for $3.2B. But it didn’t look like WebEx was going to be a startup that could grow and take over the world. WebEx was one of the first options for video calls because there wasn’t much competition in the market. Yuan was one of the most important people on the team that made the software for WebEx’s video conferences. At the time it was a small company just starting out in web conferencing. His expertise and goal for his career were to improve and make videotelephony software easier to use and more effective.Īt first, he got a job with WebEx Communications. He is a software engineer from China who moved to the United States in 1997. A Brief History of ZoomĮric Yuan came up with the idea for Zoom in 2013. Maybe the best way to understand this race of Zoom vs Skype is to go back in time to when the first tools for videoconferencing started appearing. This funny video makes you think about a serious question: Why couldn’t a well-known brand name like Skype compete with Zoom, which was started a decade after Skype? Why did “Zoom” become so popular that it’s now turned into a verb, like in the phrase “let’s Zoom”? How did Zoom take the world by storm? Even though giants like Microsoft with Skype and Teams and Google with Hangouts were already in the market?
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