Sinha: Google hosted 20,000 daily video calls for 40,000 employees
Shan Sinha · a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce · Jan 2, 2019 · at 9:03
Shan Sinha, founder of Highfive and former Google employee, discusses video conferencing adoption and usage metrics inside Google during his tenure.
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“When we were at Google, I think we left right around the same time, but when we were at Google, we were around 40,000 people. Every single day, they would do 20,000 video calls. The average person used video one to two times a day”
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