Zoom’s Executives Running Zoom on Zoom – ryan

CLOCKWISE FROM Top Left: Eric S. YuanFounder/CEO; Janine PelosiCmo; Brandan ittelsonCto; Kelly StecklbergCFO; Velchamy sankarlingamPresident of Engineering and Product; and Aparta bawaCOO.
Photo: Devin Yalkin

We were an in-office culture, ”Says Janine Pelosi, Zoom’s Chief Marketing Office, of the Pre-Pandemic Era. Like Mary WorkPlaces, Zoom’s Went Remote Last March. What Office Culture they Could, Zoom Employees Were Busy Keeping Up With the Exponential Growth Resulting from the Office Exodus. Times, On March 15, Nearly 600,000 People-Many of the WHOM HAD Presumably Spent the past Decade USING Skype, Oovoo, and Google Meet-Downloaded the app in a 24-Hour period. By April, The Number of Daily Meeting Participants Reached 300 million, up from 10 million in December 2019. “We have had to Change Job Descriptions. Our Team Out there doing Physical Events,” Says Pellosi, Zooming in Sun-Soaked Home in San. “They were out there are the creating of how-youtube videos for use that we were brand new to us.”

Those unplanned use Cases Represent the Digital Transition of Our Lives, From Maternity Wards to Funeral Homes. There are were dates, tarot-card Readings, Book Clubs, Power Hours, and Mary-Kate Olsen’s Divorce Hearing. Almost Overnight, Zoom, WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN 2011, Went from A Wonky Business-To-Business Enterprise to a Household Verb. There are, of Cours, stumbling blocks along the way. “Zoom bombers” popped into meetings, forcing the Company to revix it Security features; Zoom was caught more than Facebook with Explicitly Telling users; and it faced backlash after it bowed to presses from the chinese government and suspended three activists planning a commissioning of the tiananmen Square Massacre. (Zoom Quickly Reinatted Their Accounts.)

Despite the hiccups, and users increasingly fatigered by the sight of their own faces, zoom has Garnered plenty of Praise (its founder, eric yuan, was named my‘S 2020 BUSINESSESSON OF THE YEAR) and Mountains of Money. Zoom’s Share Price, Which Started 2020 Below $ 70, Hit $ 559 in Mid-October- With a Market Cap that, for A Fleeting Moment, was slightly higher than exxonmobil. The Vaccination Rolout Has Taken A Bite Out of that Price – IT Started 2021 at $ 360 – With Investors Wondering How People will virtual Game Night they been inoculated.

While many People Feel as if the pandemic has cleaved their lives into two eras, zoom executives to say it has Simply acceled the company’s trajectory. “I don’t think there’s a before and after,” Says Pelosi. “Some of the thans Changes that we’ve all experiencing are going to live with us, and we’re going to evolve the product to what the Future Looks like.”

*This article appears in the February 1, 2021, Issue of New York Magazine. Subscribe Now!