Zoom
also referred to as: zoom video communications
includes Zoom App Marketplace, Zoom Phone, Zoom Ventures
25 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2018 by Eric Yuan · said 1,379 times in 1073 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 21 mentions in 2 episodes 11 per episode
2025 9 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- I spent $1m on Linkedin Ads and Added $3m of new Revenue, Paragon CMO
- This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
- 3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients, Wes Bush
- Frame.io COO Shares How they Built Product to Hit 1m Users and Exited to Adobe for $1.25b
- Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
- These are the AI SEO Secrets that Clickup, Airbase, and Freshworks are using to win
- While Zapier Gets all the Press, Celigo Just Doubled Revenue to $95m, CEO Jan Arendtsz
- NYSE: PAR CEO Savneet Singh Shares How He Great from $200m/yr to $400m/yr
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 85 mentions in 71 episodes 1 per episode
- 39 Year Old Public SaaS CEO Doubles Revenue to $400m Over the Last 24 Months - His Genius M&A Playbook
- How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team
- How Pavilion Hit $10m in Revenue While Balancing Investor and Customer Demands with CEO Sam Jacobs
- The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people
- Genius Affiliate Strategy Helps Bootstrapper Hit $27,000,000 Revenue
- 3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day
- How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
- This CEO Does $20m/year Selling Software to Chiropractic Offices
- 63 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 193 mentions in 178 episodes 1 per episode
- She built secret software to add $4m in deal volume to her brokerage last year
- How this Hotel SaaS Hit $1.3m ARR and 1400 Customers
- How we bootstrapped to $20m ARR using asynchronous work
- Gong of Japan Hits $20m Revenue with just $15m Raised! Prime Takeover Target?
- How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
- How he spun his software out of a corporation and hit first 5 paying customers
- Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster
- How He Doubled Revenue To $2.4m Using a 5 Page Google Doc over the past 12 months
- 170 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 344 mentions in 290 episodes 1 per episode
- Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
- Typeform Breaks $75m Revenue, How the Founder Structures R&D Team of 2 To Build Fast, Launch new Products
- Unlocking B2B Influencer Marketing: How I used $20k to get over $1M in ARR
- HR Tech Company Raises $2.5m on $18m Helping 20 Enterprises Hire Better
- He just hit $60m Revenue but burned $25m net last year. Here's how Market Research SaaS Suzy fixed their runway in volatile economy
- SMB Tax App hits $20k MRR by getting 1k+ Signups and Converting 20-50% to $35/mo paid accounts
- They Used ProductHunt to Make $60,000 for their New SaaS, 6,000 signups
- Clientpoint Breaks $3m ARR, Raising $5m on $45m Valuation now
- 282 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 391 mentions in 292 episodes 1 per episode
- Zoom Teleprompter For Sales People Hits $1k MRR in 30 Days After Spending $8k on MVP
- Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
- Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?
- How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)
- How they built 300 person waitlist for new co-browsing SaaS tool
- Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
- Can He Convert Twitter Followers to Software Subscribers?
- Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?
- 284 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 237 mentions in 198 episodes 1 per episode
- Artivatic Insurtech API $1m Revenue, Closing $500k Round Now
- Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
- PlusThis Does $85k in Profit Every Month Selling Marketing Tools to 3,000 SMB's
- Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?
- 1718 CyberSecurity CEO: US Election Interference Happening Right Now, Virus Plans and more from RedSeal
- Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
- ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
- RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker
- 190 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 39 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- 1292 How Cvent Hit $500m Bookings with Eyes on $1B in Meeting and Event Space
- 1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations
- 1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise
- 1442 Webinar Platform Breaks $2.5m in ARR, But Churn Too High
- 1409 $1.5B Freshworks To IPO: Growing 40% YoY, Passes $100M in ARR, $250M Raised, 150,000 Companies Using
- 1378 250 Content Producers Pay Him $6k/yr For Storytelling Drag and Drop Platform
- 1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk
- 1594 The Main Reason He Took $1.5m Government Loan at 4% Instead of VC
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 44 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
- 1063 How We Spent $7m To Spin Crunchbase Out of AOL
- 1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR
- 1051 CEO: "We Went from $35k in MRR to $350k in 12 months"
- 1082 Why Public Sizmek Went Private to Fuel Growth via M&A in Buy Side Programmatic Space
- 1219 Will Prosperworks and it's 10,000 Paying Customers Win CRM Wars?
- 1021 How He Solved Translation Marketplace Space and Grew 7x YoY to $24m in Revenue
- 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical
- 743: Will 28yo Privacy.com Founder Replace Credit Cards?
- EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto
- 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR
- 723: He Sold His Company to Richard Branson, Then Oil Tanked Him
- EP 545: Unomy Raises $3.4M, $160k MRR Helping Businesses Get Leads with CEO Gal Harzvi
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
- Ep 483: Pipedrive Passes $10M ARR, Helping 30,000 Customers w/ CRM with CEO Timo Rein
- How to Get Event Organizers To Tell You Speaker Budget With Shari Alexander EP 223
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Zoom, oldest first
May 4, 2018 positive
May 4, 2018 negative
Cisco doubted Zoom's vision, believing enterprise collaboration belonged in social networking
“At that time, they saw it is, you know, they focused on the social networking. At that time, they saw the overall, the collaboration strategy should be around the social networking. I have a different opinion, and they probably thought, I do not understand the…”
May 4, 2018 positive
Yuan: Zoom will not sell, contrasting with WebEx's early acquisition
“No, no, no. We don't want to sell the company. And by the way, you know, I was not a CEO, right? So WebEx, you know, the two co-founders and You know, they are already a public company. They wanted to sell the company back in, you know, in our case, you know, …”
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 negative
Yuan: Designing SaaS for artificial customer lock-in is the wrong approach
“We never wanted to make our services sticky. The reason why I think that is wrong direction, because the reason why you want to make it sticky, you always say, hey, this customer don't switch to others. I think that's wrong approach.”
May 4, 2018 bullish
May 4, 2018 bullish
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 neutral
Jun 22, 2018 neutral
Feb 6, 2019 bullish
May 10, 2019 positive
Trello Required In-Office Staff to Join Zoom Meetings From Separate Rooms
“They had pretty hard rules around when you joined a zoom or when you joined a meeting and there were maybe five people in a room, everybody went to five different places and joined a zoom from five different locations. And so the people that were outside of th…”
Apr 7, 2020 negative
Jun 14, 2020 neutral
Moore: Slack and Zoom are ecosystem super nodes, not true platforms
“What we're seeing out in the market is that the big success stories, you look at companies like zoom companies like slack, you know, the latest IPO crop in SAS, I would argue that very few of them are like true platforms. What they really are is super nodes in…”
Jul 5, 2020 neutral
Walker: Previous 30 SaaS IPOs averaged 28-32% growth pre-IPO
“If you look at the last, you know, last 30 SaaS IPOs.
I think other than, you know, other than Zoom, which is the world's greatest IPO in the history of the Valley, I think anything like, you know, they're averaging around 30, 28, 30, 32% going into an IPO.”
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Sep 2, 2021 neutral
Oct 31, 2021 bullish
Feb 15, 2023 negative
Amit RG: Remote Zoom sessions cannot replicate Y Combinator's networking value
“When you go into a thing like YC, the major takeaway or the major benefit is the network and the kind of people you meet. That, that doesn't happen over Zoom calls and, like, those Zoom sessions where a hundred people are coming together.”
Jan 23, 2024 bullish
Feb 15, 2024 negative
Prados hates tools like Salesforce and Monday, relying mostly on Google Calendar
“We have so many tools that we use and pay for from Salesforce to Monday to this, that, Zoom. Honestly, I hate them all. Like, what do I use most? I use G Suite. That's the tool that I use the most. My calendar is the number one tool that I use.”
Jul 23, 2024 negative
Singh: Beloved point products trade at lower multiples than platforms like ADP and SAP
“Whether it's, like, a DocuSign or a Zoom or all the ones I just talked about, like, and look at what they trade at. They trade at, like, three times revenue. You know, these are, DocuSigns are great products. Zoom is a great product, but they trade at the shit…”
Aug 6, 2024
Pavilion swung from 30% margins in 2021 to multi-year capital burn
“We had, I think, 30% operating margins. Now remember, a community business in twenty-twenty-one and twenty-twenty, not the same thing because we had no hard physical costs, right? We weren't doing this. Everything was on Zoom. Very high margin on Zoom. Low mar…”