Awards & Recognition
★TIME Businessperson of the Year 2020
★TIME 100 Most Influential People 2020
★EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Northern California
★#1 CEO of large US company by Glassdoor 2018
★Bloomberg 50 leader 2019
★Carnegie Corporation Great Immigrants Award 2020
★UC Leader of the Year 2024
★National Academy of Engineering inductee 2025
★Yale Maverick in Leadership Award 2021
★Business Insider Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech
Notable Facts
→Founded Zoom in 2011, became billionaire after 2019 IPO
→Chinese-American immigrant who was denied US visa 8 times before success
→Owns 22% of Zoom Communications, net worth estimated $4-25 billion
→Led one of highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019
→Company became essential during COVID-19 pandemic, grew from 10M to 300M+ daily users
→Named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration
→Former corporate VP of Engineering at Cisco, early WebEx engineer
→Speaks regularly at major conferences including fireside chats with Jensen Huang and Mark Cuban