The Ledger

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What-if
Zoom might have been built inside Cisco if John Chambers had known
“If he knew that, very likely I would probably still be at Cisco, right, to build a solution, right?”
Eric Yuan Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 7:22 How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale
Assertion Supported
Yuan: WebEx's architecture was built for data collaboration, not video
“The way to fix that problem is you got to build something from the ground up because WebEx architecture was not a video collaboration. It's more like a data collaboration.”
Eric Yuan Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 5:43 How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale
Disclosure
Eric Yuan initially intended to build consumer software, not an enterprise product
“After I left Cisco, I want to build new solution, but I want to build a consumer solution. I didn't want to build another business solution. Unfortunately, it's really hard to monetize.”
Eric Yuan Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 8:28 How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale
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