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Meet Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, who has made nearly $4 billion in 3 months as usage of his video conferencing software skyrockets amid the coronavirus pandemic

Yuan lives in a wealthy Silicon Valley suburb with his wife and their three kids.

Meet Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, who has made nearly $4 billion in 3 months as usage of his video conferencing software skyrockets amid the coronavirus pandemic

Yuan almost never travels.

Yuan almost never travels.

Yuan now uses Zoom for almost all his meetings and tries to limit business trips to two a year in order to spend more time with his family, according to The Financial Times. He is also conscious of airplane travel's impact on climate change, The Telegraph reported.

Yuan took only eight work trips in the five years before Zoom's IPO in 2019, according to Forbes.

"Customers have always said, 'Eric, we'll become your very important customer, you've got to visit us,'" Yuan told Forbes. "I say, 'Fine, I'm going to visit you, but let's have a Zoom call first.' Yuan almost never follows through with the visit, he told Forbes.

Unlike other members of the three-comma club, Yuan doesn't live a flashy lifestyle.

Unlike other members of the three-comma club, Yuan doesn

Yuan shares an office in Zoom's headquarters with chief product office Oded Gal, Forbes reported.

Yuan does drive a Tesla, however, according to Forbes. And Tesla is one of Zoom's customers.

While Yuan says his newfound wealth doesn't particularly excite him, he is eager to see what he hopes will be a permanent change in the way we work.

While Yuan says his newfound wealth doesn

"If I was 25, maybe I would be very excited," Yuan told The Telegraph about his newfound wealth. "But those things don't have any impact on me. Money is not going to bring me happiness."

Yuan told The Telegraph that he is more excited by the possibility of convincing more people to embrace remote work. "Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office," Yuan told The Telegraph. "Give it maybe 10 years and the millennials become the leaders and then it will become very common. Coronavirus is just a catalyst. Sooner or later this is going to be normal because the world does not belong to us anymore, it belongs to the younger generation."


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