Eric Yuan

“Eric said to me, he said he had about, I think it was about 3000 people who worked for him, And within a week of leaving, he had 2000 resumes in his inbox of people who wanted to work for him.”

“And so at that moment, to be honest, I didn't even care what he was doing. I said, I'm going to write you a check. I'm in because you're the kind of leader that it almost doesn't matter what you're building. I believe in you. And I did write him a check”

“We spent more than two years getting to know Eric Yuan at Zoom before we finally had a chance to get into business with him.”

“Eric has always been this incredible human being focused on the right thing and not focused on, oh, I want to get the best customer or the best deal or the best valuation or the best pricing. He's always focused on finding the right customer, the right valuati…”

“But to our show today, and I've been looking forward to releasing this one for quite a long time now, and so I'm thrilled to welcome Brianne Kimmel, founder and managing partner at Work Life Ventures, a very new firm focused on the future of work, backed by so…”

“So why were we invested in Zoom? I can tell you that Eric Wan didn't need money, but he needed a Carl Leschenbach.”

“Eric has led by example from the minute he started at Zoom up until I was on customer meetings with Eric as we closed the quarter.”

“Eric has given out that book to every employee in the company. We were all asked to read it. We've been asked to share things about it.”

“Eric Yuan, as the legend goes, it was his ninth visa application that finally got him into the US, right? Like, he was seeking out a better opportunity for himself, and he stuck with it because he really wanted to see it through.”

“Eric himself was miscalculating churn. Specifically, he was counting upgrades from, you know, low tier to high tier as churn. He was counting pausing as a churn. And so he was unnecessarily burdening the business with churn.”