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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by fapi1974 on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:58PM (#22707659)
This is the most levelheaded comment I've see in this thread. Not least because I have literally never seen an ad run on either the Zoom website or the app. Moreover, Zoom is one of the most successful SaaS companies in the world because their unit economics on their basic business model (of selling premium subsriptions) is literally better than almost any other SaaS company out there: https://tomtunguz.com/benchmarking-zoom-s-s-1-how-7-key-metr...
Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by xenonite on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:16PM (#22707755)
> One key driver of profitability is labor-market arbitrage. Nearly one third of Zoom’s team, and the majority of its engineering team is based in China. The result is the company spends less than 10% of its revenue on R&D, which is less than half the median of the peer set.