
Zoom debuts innovations for Zoom Spaces to upgrade in-office and hybrid experiences
Today, Zoom introduced new innovations for Zoom Spaces, including AI-first experiences and collaborations with HP, Google, Cisco, Meta, Logitech, and more.
Updated on April 18, 2023
Published on April 01, 2020
Eric founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring people together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s communications platform continues to transform the way global organizations connect, communicate, and collaborate. As the company’s chief executive, Eric led Zoom to one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.
Business Insider named Eric one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech in 2017. In 2018, Glassdoor recognized him as the top CEO for large U.S. companies. In 2019, he was recognized in the Bloomberg 50 as a leader changing the game in global business. Time Magazine named Eric its 2020 Businessperson of Year as well as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020. He was also named Comparably's Best CEO for Diversity in 2021.
Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was also one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex.
Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
With the flood of new users, part of the challenge is ensuring that we provide the proper training, tools, and support to help them understand their own account features and how best to use the platform.
We have also worked hard to actively and quickly address specific issues and questions that have been raised.