The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)

Zoom board member (and general partner at Emergence Capital)
Santi Subotovsky joins us to tell the true underdog story behind
the hottest IPO of 2019. Together we trace founder Eric Yuan’s
incredible journey from immigrant software developer, who didn’t
speak any English upon arriving in Silicon Valley in 1997, to
Glassdoor’s #1 rated CEO in America in 2018. In an age where
border walls have replaced open doors in Washington, and burn
rates and privacy scandals have sidelined Silicon Valley’s
pretense of making the world a better place, there is no better
reminder than Zoom of everything that can be great about our
country and our industry.





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Links

Walt Mossberg’s review of Zoom in 2012:
 http://allthingsd.com/20120821/a-chance-to-call-15-friends-to-video-chat-in-high-def/



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