1 CEO by Glasssdoor, where he boasted a near-perfect employee approval rating. But management at the tech giant couldn’t appreciate Yuan’s vision for video conferencing, which led him to quit and create Zoom alone. Yuan first took a job at Webex, where he worked before the company was acquired by networking giant Cisco in 2007. It was during those flights between China and the United States, when Yuan was visiting his wife (then girlfriend), that the origins of Zoom were seemingly born, though it was years before the company launched. However, Yuan was not deterred and revealed in an interview with Bloomberg that he was prepared to submit the application 20 or 30 times before he got the approval. According to the Financial Times, he might have arrived in the United States a whole lot sooner were it not for what he describes as a “petty misunderstanding” involving an immigration official, which had a domino effect and created a false impression that he was not truthful on the application. 9” paved the way for him to come to California. Yuan is a Chinese immigrant who was denied a U.S.
