{"author_name":"View From The Top","author_url":"https://art19.com/shows/stanford-gsb/episodes/0e50ec15-b27c-4764-a038-3c048514e959","description":"<p>\"My number one priority is to make sure Zoom employees are happy. I believe if you have happy employees, you’re going to have happy customers.\"&nbsp;Eric Yuan, SEP '06, founded Zoom in 2011 to \"deliver happiness and bring people together\" in a frictionless video environment.&nbsp;In 2019, Eric led Zoom to one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of the year.&nbsp;But it was the next year that really made his company a global verb. In January 2020, the Zoom app averaged about 56,000 daily downloads on the Apple App Store. Within two months, as the COVID-19 outbreak forced a tectonic shift in the way people communicate, those downloads surpassed two million per day.</p><p>In this episode of&nbsp;<em>View From the Top</em>, the podcast, Kathleen Schwind MBA '23, sits down to interview Yuan about what how he creates company culture, how he strives for work-life balance, and the few things he can't live without.&nbsp;</p>","html":"<iframe src=\"https://art19.com/shows/stanford-gsb/episodes/0e50ec15-b27c-4764-a038-3c048514e959/embed\" style=\"width: 720px; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" width=\"720\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"></iframe>","provider_name":"ART19","provider_url":"https://art19.com","title":"Eric Yuan on Keeping Customers, and Employees, Happy","type":"rich","version":"1.0","width":720,"height":200}