A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan

It worked with Wall Street, where demand for Zoom (formally known as Zoom Video Communications) prompted the company to raise its IPO price to $36 per share, valuing the company at $9.2 billion—and making Yuan a new billionaire at age 49. Zoom founder Eric Yuan likes to use his video tool’s virtual backgrounds to appear in locations from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the beach in Santa Barbara, where Zoom maintains a satellite office. Yuan stunned partners at Emergence when he showed up for his pitch meeting and promptly insisted every investor download the Zoom app and join him for a live video conference of the presentation, partner Santi Subotovsky says.

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