A Technology Tale: David Beats Goliath

Sally Herships
Jun 7, 2021
1 min read

Updated: Oct 30, 2023

If video conferencing is the gold rush of the COVID pandemic, then Zoom is David to Google and Cisco's Goliath. Google has 120,000 employees. Microsoft has over 150,000 workers. Zoom has just a few thousand, yet its mobile app has been downloaded 485 million times, more than any of its competitors. Zoom should have never won this fight, so how did it do it?

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