Re:Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
by tsurkoprt on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:10AM
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So he was founding engineer of WebEx, build the team, build the product, but the product was not good enough because "of its older architecture, particularly a lack of usability, reliability, and video quality" !?! Wasn't that his responsibility as VP of WebEx ?
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Re:Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
by toyg on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:54AM
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The hint is in his complaints: he probably lobbied Cisco for budget to have a Big Rewrite and they said no. So he upped sticks and did it elsewhere.
Are you proud of your code from 20 years ago? He probably wasn’t either.
Re:Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
by taude on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:18AM
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Once Cisco bought, it sounds like a lot of control was removed from his hands? New company (Cisco) didn't want to invest in what they thought was a mature product that serviced the market well enough?
Re:Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
by Jare on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:57AM
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How many enterprise web tech products from 1997 do you think survive today with a healthy architecture and usable design?
Plus that whole "I told Cisco leadership, but they didn't listen" surely was not the first time it ever happened.
Re:Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
by agsamek on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:37AM
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I'm sorry you were downvoted for an interesting remark. It resonates with me that sometimes you are stuck within a structure that was created by you and need to completely change environment to be able to achieve new goals. Quite interesting point here.