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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zoom comes up
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 48:04 Ben Gilbert Especially in shooting stuff like live in person, there's a whole new web of things that could go wrong that just don't happen when it's you and I on Zoom.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 31:47 Chetan Puttagunta And so we come in Monday morning, we're talking, um, and then at some point during the conversation, Peter said, this is not a conversation that should happen on the phone or on the, on Zoom.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:53 Jason Calacanis No, just, you know, popped on Zoom.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 3:24:40 Ben Gilbert But even better, we did a Zoom call with them a few weeks ago, and we're gonna do another one because it was really great to get so many of you together to discuss these topics with the authors themselves.
- ▶ 3:47:45 Ben Gilbert There are links in the show notes to all of those things, including downloading NZS's white paper and clicking the link to join us in a Zoom call in October where we actually get to talk to them.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:59 Ben Gilbert We're gonna do another Zoom call with them in October to talk about these ideas together.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:57 Ben Gilbert So you can, of course, email Brinton and Brad from their email addresses right there on the paper, or even better, we are going to do a Zoom call with them to talk about these ideas together.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 2:16:36 Ben Gilbert And finally, since they really do want feedback, you can, of course, email Brinton or Brad or any of them from the email addresses on the paper when you download it, or even better, we're gonna do a Zoom call with them to talk about all…
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 28:07 David Rosenthal This is from our interview with him a week ago.
- ▶ 28:45 Ben Gilbert With Zoom, or were you just thinking about sort of, um, how can I make a great product?
- ▶ 33:41 David Rosenthal You know, all those zoom happy hours you've been doing with your team for the past few years, there are Netflix parties or whatever, and how they
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:01 David Rosenthal And especially virtual happy hours over Zoom.
- ▶ 49:15 Ben Gilbert When Mystery first started, I was thinking, oh, like, when they first started doing this, oh, I see, like, they're making the Zoom happy hours more fun.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:01 Ben Gilbert Yes, it is very appropriate to be on here on Zoom with you recording these before going into the interview with Eric.
- ▶ 1:26 Ben Gilbert The good people at Emergence Capital, in particular, friend of the show Jake Saper, invited David and I to interview two very heavy hitters at their CEO Summit last week, Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, and Peter Gassner, the…
- ▶ 2:23 David Rosenthal And Peter is on the board of Zoom.
- ▶ 3:09 Ben Gilbert As you remember from our Zoom episode with board member Santi Subotovsky, also an Emergence Capital partner, Zoom raised thirty million dollars from Emergence and another hundred million dollars from Sequoia afterwards.
- ▶ 3:21 Ben Gilbert And they never touched the vast majority, if not all of those funds.
- ▶ 3:26 David Rosenthal I think they didn't touch any of that hundred and thirty million dollars.
- ▶ 7:29 David Rosenthal Could each of you please give us a brief overview of your fundraising history up to and including Viva and Zoom's IPOs, which ordinarily that would take like an hour.
- ▶ 11:12 Eric Yuan You know, to be honest with you, with you, actually, we even do not need to read the series D, actually, because at that time, you know, I think with that certain meeting, I think the company completely into a, I feel like a different game.
- ▶ 12:48 Peter Gassner What matters for Zoom is the great product and the customers.
- ▶ 13:11 Ben Gilbert You know, multi-million dollar contracts up front on, you know, in the case of Viva or in Zoom,
- ▶ 13:48 Peter Gassner I guess I've seen a little bit of Zoom and a little bit of Eva.
- ▶ 15:10 Peter Gassner It was the right timing for Zoom.
- ▶ 15:12 Peter Gassner Maybe if you started Zoom five years earlier or five years later, it would have been hard, hard.
- ▶ 18:39 Eric Yuan I never thought about everyone is going to standardize on Zoom platform, but at least I know for sure is if a customer, they do not like something, if you can build something better, you have a chance.
- ▶ 18:50 Ben Gilbert Eric, did you think from the outset that you were trying to build Zoom as a big company, or did you just think that you wanted to build a profitable company to survive, and then you would sort of see where it went from there?
- ▶ 19:20 Eric Yuan And I had no choice, you know, but to leave to build a Zoom.
- ▶ 19:54 David Rosenthal When you started Zoom, you were a solo founder, but you brought a large number of people with you.
- ▶ 35:45 David Rosenthal And man, God, those zoom happy hours that teams were doing and companies were doing were just terrible.
- ▶ 36:07 David Rosenthal All of these companies use mystery to completely take over the planning, the organizing, running all of the team experiences for their internal teams, oftentimes also for external facing customer events with their partners, and it is way,…
- ▶ 38:53 David Rosenthal Eric, for you, I'm curious, maybe you can talk to us both in the beginning days and then also now at Zoom.
- ▶ 42:25 David Rosenthal Um, you know, I remember when we talked about with Santi on the episode we did on Zoom's IPO years ago now, um,
- ▶ 44:42 Eric Yuan It's not really not about a common package because, you know, when it comes to hiring, you know, at Zoom, we really like to hire those people with a self-motivation and a self-learning mentality, right, including the senior executives, and…
- ▶ 46:48 Ben Gilbert There's another, I just keep, these parallels keep popping up for me where Zoom is one of the greatest product-led growth companies of all time, um, and yet here you are talking about the beauty of predictable revenue that comes from…
- ▶ 47:43 David Rosenthal I mean, you joked about the billboards, but there are Zoom billboards now.
- ▶ 47:47 David Rosenthal Um, uh, I asked them, you know, how did, how did Eric and Zoom think about spending money on marketing?
- ▶ 48:58 Eric Yuan You know, after that, after we have paid a customer, a lot of customers, a customer told us, Eric, I never heard about Zoom, but I try to product, product works.
- ▶ 51:26 Eric Yuan They feel like, ah, early on, we decided to deploy Zoom.
- ▶ 51:33 Eric Yuan To better on Zoom.
- ▶ 51:38 Eric Yuan oh my god, Zoom has a billboard now.
- ▶ 52:12 Ben Gilbert Uh, I'm curious, um, maybe let's start with Eric and then go to Peter since we've been on a good zoom streak.
- ▶ 52:17 Ben Gilbert Where do you see the source of Zoom's defensibility as a business over the next 30 years?
- ▶ 1:04:08 Ben Gilbert What makes the future of Zoom and Viva an A+.
- ▶ 1:05:42 Eric Yuan A-plus scenario would be, you know, Zoom will be a very successful platform company.
- ▶ 1:05:48 Eric Yuan We are going to introduce multiple new services, and people can count on Zoom to achieve more.
- ▶ 1:08:11 David Rosenthal You know, now everybody thinks of Zoom as the, you know, pandemic, you know, high flyer, and it's like, I was just thinking every time over the last few years, like, that people would talk about Zoom in whatever context, I'm like, do you,…
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 0:41 Ben Gilbert David and I are very used to being on Zoom, talking to each other through the Internet.
- ▶ 49:07 Anu Hariharan That was strange for us because we believe in bringing everyone to Mountain View for the interview, and we had to learn how to test for that on Zoom.
- ▶ 49:15 Anu Hariharan And then we also learned how to run the batch on Zoom, and we learned how to do a demo day on Zoom.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:58 David Rosenthal It's so hard for me to imagine that that's like to the degree of a Peloton or a zoom or something like that.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:23 Ben Gilbert They really needed to upgrade that virtual experience with their team because, you know, after you log into Zoom 17 times in that single day and you're trying to have fun with each other and make it feel different, it's hard to make it…
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:44 David Rosenthal Just look at the Robinhood GameStop situation, or Zoom bombing, or anything on Twitter.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:59 Ben Gilbert You'll also, if you join the LP program, you'll get access to our LP only zoom calls.
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:14 Brian Koppelman The person would be in the zoom with us because it's all zoom rooms now.
- ▶ 56:38 Ben Gilbert You know, these happy hours, everyone's going on on Zoom, where you have 17 Zooms, and now you log on for one more, and you're supposed to, like, have fun.
- ▶ 1:04:04 Ben Gilbert Join our Zoom calls, all kinds of cool stuff.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:02 Ben Gilbert You can find that in any podcast player by searching acquired LP show, and of course, become an LP if you want to get super early access two weeks before everyone else, and, uh, talk with us on Zoom calls every month or two.
- ▶ 21:25 Ben Gilbert and I'm about to add a Zoom invite, but Google's like, wait, wait, wait, don't you mean Google Meet?
- ▶ 1:26:48 Ben Gilbert And when after 17 times of already logging on to Zoom together that day, everyone was supposed to, like, have fun and not strangle each other in their 18th Zoom, you know, it, it can be tricky.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 6:46 Ben Gilbert Or you can become a member at acquired.fm slash LP, uh, if you want those two weeks earlier, or to join our LP-only Zoom calls, one of which is tonight, if you are listening the day that this episode comes out.
- ▶ 2:09:21 Ben Gilbert It's funny, I was thinking about what would be an interesting comparison here, and I think Eric Yuan against John Foley is sort of an interesting one, or let's just say Zoom against Peloton.
- ▶ 2:09:34 Ben Gilbert Peloton down over 80% from peak, Zoom down over 70%, but for Zoom, despite the fall, I think it's still growing revenues at close to a hundred percent year over year, and is a free cash flow positive machine.
- ▶ 2:10:32 David Rosenthal Spike created huge complexities for Peloton as a business in a way that, you know, for Zoom, like, yeah, it created some complexities for Zoom.
- ▶ 2:21:01 Ben Gilbert Uh, and, uh, if you want to join us for the Zoom call tonight, if you're listening to this on drop day, then, uh, join acquired.fm slash LP, and, uh, we will, we will see you in the Zoom later tonight.