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Zoom daily meeting participants skyrocketed from 10 million to 300 million

Eric Yuan · How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale · Feb 6, 2026 · at 16:24

Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan describes the explosive 30x platform growth during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“December of 2019. You can have daily meeting participant, you know, I think is around the, on a peak day, around ten million daily meeting participant. And a few months later, in April, May timeframe, all the way jumped to more than three hundred million daily meeting participants.”

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The claim, plainly

Zoom's daily meeting participants grew from approximately 10 million on peak days in December 2019 to more than 300 million by April or May 2020.

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Assessment

Official disclosures and corporate statements from Zoom Video Communications fully confirm the claim. In an official blog post published on April 1, 2020, then-CEO Eric Yuan stated that Zoom's maximum daily meeting participants in December 2019 was approximately 10 million. On April 22, 2020, Zoom announced reaching over 300 million, which it explicitly clarified in late April 2020 as measuring daily meeting participants (rather than unique daily active users). Furthermore, in Zoom's Q1 FY2021 prepared remarks on June 2, 2020, and subsequent SEC annual filings, Zoom confirmed that daily meeting participants peaked at over 300 million in April 2020, up from 10 million in December 2019.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan's April 1, 2020 blog post stated that as of the end of December 2019, the maximum number of daily meeting participants was approximately 10 million.
Zoom's April 24–29, 2020 official corrections clarified that the metric crossing 300 million in April 2020 measured daily meeting participants.
Zoom's Q1 FY2021 prepared remarks (June 2, 2020) and FY2021 Annual Report confirmed peaking at over 300 million daily meeting participants in April 2020, up from 10 million in December 2019.

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[1] zoom.com [2] businessinsider.com [3] businessinsider.com [4] fastcompany.com [5] techtarget.com [6] engadget.com [7] bandwidthblog.co.za [8] zoom.com

the verge zoom 300 million daily meeting participants users correction april 2020 zoom blog eric yuan A Message to Our Users april 1 2020 10 million 200 million 300 million zoom blog 10 million december 2019 300 million april 2020 daily meeting participants zoom sec filing 10 million december 2019 300 million daily meeting participants 2020

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