Global suspension of classes to grab zoom, founder Yuan requisitioned video to create happiness.

In the upsurge of children suspending classes and parents working from home, people hear and use "Zoom" more and more frequently, and even Wall Street is crazy about Zoom's share price. But you may not know that Jacky, the founder of Zoom, was actually a 27-year-old China immigrant who was not fluent in English at that time. He said that the most important thing for a person to travel in a foreign land is not his language ability. What achieved him was the happiness he created for himself and others.

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"Zoom" became the most popular and commonly used word after pneumonia in COVID-19 set off a global wave of suspension of classes and work from home. Even in the falling stock market, as of March this year, it closed at 1 18.7 1, up 74.5% from the end of last year.

Zoom is the most popular video software and company today. More than half of the world's top 500 enterprises use its paid service, and it is also the software used by the schools that have suspended classes the most. It allows many people to conduct video conferencing, pre-recorded and real-time playback. Even better, it can be compatible with all kinds of hardware systems and software, and can also change the background during the conference, and be integrated into the existing communication systems and equipment of many schools and enterprises. Therefore, Zoom is often the first choice to meet the needs of distance learning and family meetings.

After the suspension of classes, in order to implement corporate social responsibility, Zoom was opened to k- 12 schools (kindergartens to primary and secondary schools) free of charge in countries with serious epidemics, which naturally pushed the Zoom craze to all generations in the world.

It is worth noting that Jacky, the founder and CEO of Zoom, was originally a native of China who didn't speak English very well. At the age of 27, he came to the United States to study network technology. His growth and entrepreneurship seem miraculous, but in retrospect, speaking English is not the most difficult restriction.

His efforts and persistence are only the foundation.

Jacky was born in Shandong, 1970. He is the same generation as Taiwan Province Province. When he was a child, he came into contact with the impression that China lacked basic life and was even less rich in materials.

From 65438 to 0978, China began reform and opening up. Being in Shandong, he seems to smell capitalism. In the fourth grade, I thought of collecting waste building materials and recycling resources to make money. He soon discovered that the manufacturer only needed metal and tried to burn useless waste building materials in the neighbor's backyard, which led to a fire. The fire brigade came and put out the fire, but it didn't put out the entrepreneurial seedlings in his heart.

18, when I was 9 years old, I was far apart because I went to different universities with my girlfriend. It takes him more than ten hours by train to meet, and he can only meet twice a year. He is always tired on the train. He will fall asleep even if he stands, but he won't fall down. Because the bus was crowded with passengers, everyone huddled together and propped up each other. Between dreams and waking, he often wondered if there was any way to see each other and chat with each other from a distance by pressing a button without complicated operation and hardware.

After finishing his master's degree, he went back to Japan on business and listened to Bill Gates' speech. At that time, the Internet in the United States was just budding, but in Bill Gates' speech, he saw the infinite future led by the Internet world. He thought that in China, he didn't see such a concept and * * *, so he wanted to go to the United States to study and study the Internet.

At that time, he was not good at communicating in English. The first time I interviewed the immigration officer, I asked him for an English business card. Although it was printed as a consultant, he was regarded as a temporary technician and failed. He didn't give up, thinking that as long as the other party didn't say he wouldn't come again, he would keep trying until he succeeded. So, he tried eight more times and finally succeeded in the ninth interview.

In this way, 1997, at the age of 27, he arrived in his dream America. Because of his poor English, he finally settled in WebEx, a video company founded by Chinese, and did programming that he was good at without much English. But in order to improve his English, he just works overtime and stays up late to finish his work, and plays ball games with his colleagues on Saturday afternoon to learn English. In this way, English has improved all the way. At the age of 36, he got an MBA from Stanford University.