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ETL Speaker Series: Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santiago Subotovsky (Emergence Capital)

Written By Stanford eCorner on Thursday, Oct 22, 2020 | 08:26 AM

 
After growing and leading the team that developed WebEx, Eric Yuan left his role as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco in 2011 to found Zoom Video Communications. Santiago Subotovsky, a general partner at Emergence Capital, led his firm’s investment in Zoom. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Ravi Belani, they discuss what drove Zoom and how they built the confidence to launch this new company into an already crowded video conferencing market.