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Zoom’s Eric Yuan became one of the world’s richest people in 2020 as Covid sent people rushing to meet on video



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Nearly one year after the World Health Organization discovered the coronavirus, many people are still staying home from offices, schools, movie theaters, stadiums, churches and restaurants. A lot of the socialization that would be happening in those places in 2020 is happening over video calls. And you can’t talk about that aspect of life without talking about Zoom.Zoom seemed to come from nowhere. It wasn’t backed by Cisco, Facebook, Google or Microsoft, although those companies all sought to catch up with Zoom. A small company that was geared toward adoption in large companies suddenly found itself slammed with people trying …

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