Indeed, since the COVID-19 outbreak began, Yuan decided to offer Zoom access to all K-12 schools first in the US, which quickly turned into 90,000 schools across 20 countries, often personally opening up their free accounts. In the mid 90s, he arrived in the US, and worked for WebEx which, later on, became Cisco, and he eventually went on to launch the Zoom platform in 2012. Yuan did first think of a Zoom-like platform during the long commutes in his native China. It might be that ideas that spring to mind on a train ride are really destined to go global (think J.K. Tayan adding that the growth has been 'far surpassing what they expected' seems to be an understatement, doesn't it? In March 2020, Zoom reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid, and a month later, the figure was 300 million. In December 2019, the maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on Zoom was approximately 10 million. Sam Tayan, a Gulf representative of the San Jose-headquartered communications technology company, takes some time before breaking the suspense in order to put their current growth in a wider context. Yet, the numbers will shock you nonetheless. It is safe to say that, globally, the usage of Zoom has ballooned amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Zoom video communications app