I applied for a US visa eight times. If I had given up after the seventh, none of this would exist.

persistenceimmigrationEric Yuan, interview

If you are not happy, even if you have everything — the big house, the nice car — it doesn't matter. Delivering happiness is the most important thing.

happinesspurposeEric Yuan, interview

I told Cisco we needed to rebuild WebEx from scratch. They said no. So I went and built it myself.

entrepreneurshipconvictionEric Yuan, paraphrased from interviews

Our goal is to make Zoom meetings better than in-person meetings. That's the bar.

visionproductEric Yuan, shareholder letter

The pandemic didn't make Zoom successful. It just made everyone else realize they needed what we had already built.

covidproductEric Yuan, conference talk

Keep the product simple. If your grandmother can't use it, you've failed.

simplicityproductEric Yuan, interview