A profile of Zoom and its founder Eric Yuan, who led Webex's engineering group at Cisco before leaving to build the video conferencing company
now tech's hottest IPO $ZM via @alexrkonrad tip @techmeme http://www.forbes.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : One of my favorite details from this story: Eric Yuan nearly burned down his neighbor's shed in his first entrepreneurial effort in fourth grade. Safe to say his more recent startup ideas have gone a bit more smoothly. http://www.forbes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Reasons Zoom grew so big, so fast ($331 mil revenue last year and profitable) — It spent 2 years focused on product — It was architected to give Zoom more UX control — It could work at 40% packet loss — It was free for 40 mins, then $9.99 per user http://www.forbes.com/... Gilbert Lee / @gilbertglee : Loved how he wanted his team to stay humble from the successful IPO today. No ego from the CEO, what a great example. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Jehad Affoneh / @jaffoneh : .@ericsyuan's story is inspiring partly because it is different than the typical Silicon Valley billionaire story in almost every way. @zoom_us deserves its success. Great focus on the customer and user experience in a very crowded space. http://twitter.com/... @cnbcmakeit : Years after hearing Bill Gates speak about the future of internet, Zoom founder @ericsyuan was inspired to make the internet his future — now he's the CEO of a company valued at more than $16 billion. http://www.cnbc.com/... Evan J / @ejcx_ : I loved this interview with the Zoom CEO. Humble. Focused on still working hard. Said “customer” about 75 times in 5 minutes. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Thanks: @lauramandaro