Zoom Video Communications is a Video Conferencing / Unified Communications company with $4.53B in 2024 revenue and 7K employees worldwide. Zoom Video Communications occupies a singular position in the history of enterprise software: it is the only business-to-business technology company to become a household word, a verb in common usage, and a cultural reference point simultaneously. Founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan in San Jose, California, Zoom built a cloud video conferencing platform that prioritized reliability and simplicity over feature complexity—a philosophy that seemed modest until a global pandemic made frictionless video communication the critical infrastructure of modern society. Between December 2019 and April 2020, Zoom's daily meeting participants grew from approximately 10 million to over 300 million, a demand surge without precedent in enterprise software history. The company went public on NASDAQ in April 2019—one of the few tech IPOs in recent history to debut profitably—and reached a market capitalization above $160 billion at its October 2020 peak. The post-pandemic period has been defined by revenue deceleration, competitive intensification from Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, and a strategic pivot toward AI-augmented unified communications. By fiscal year 2024, Zoom reported $4.527 billion in annual revenue, approximately 3,662 enterprise customers generating over $100,000 annually, 6.5 million Zoom Phone seats, and free cash flow of approximately $1.491 billion. Eric Yuan remains both founder and CEO, maintaining an unusual continuity of vision that has guided the company through both its extraordinary rise and its complex post-pandemic reinvention.