Zoom became the dominant meeting place for remote communication in early 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom Communications and its founder, Eric Yuan, rose to global fame. However, it is only half of the story. Without Yuan's long-distance relationship (LDR) with his then-girlfriend, now wife, video conferencing might not have been as seamless as it is today.
Eric Yuan and his wife, Sherry, met while they were college students in China. They attended different universities, presenting a significant problem: distance. The 10-hour train commute every weekend to visit her was exhausting and tedious. This personal frustration led to a vision that someday Eric would create a better way to connect visually, especially for people in LDRs.
