It proved fortuitous as the company would revolutionize the conferencing market. In 2011 he started Zoom, raising a seed round from a variety of angels. Keep in mind that he worked on the Zoom platform for two years before it was launched. “When Eric started the business, he knew the video conferencing industry intimately and understood that existing products didn't meet user needs. While there was lots of rhetoric around the idea that video conferencing had been solved, the reality was that it wasn’t really solved well.

Source: Forbes April 20, 2019 16:07 UTC