Mind The Gap By Freshchat

Before Zoom went IPO, not many people spoke about the company and not many knew of their story. Zoom which was exclusively known for its video communication product, struck the most successful public offering. Launching at 36$, currently valued at 92.53 USD as of today. Zoom is leading the IPO race against Pinterest, Uber, Slack, Fiverr and the lot. So, what is Zoom’s story? Rolling back to 1987 in China. Eric, who is currently the CEO of zoom, had a girlfriend who stayed miles away from him. Eric had to take a train to meet her and it used to take him 10 hours for this. He used to think to himself how great it would be if he had a device that let him talk to her and also in a sense be with her without traveling so far. Little did he know that those daydreams would eventually become the basis for Zoom. Anyway, fast forward 10 years from his days in China, he moved to Silicon Valley and joined Webex, a video communications company. Eric was quite happy in WebEx working on something that he was truly passionate