<story><title>A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wardb</author><text>As a remote worker who is on video conferencing calls most of the day, I have a lot of experience (aka strong feelings) with the tools mentioned in the article;&lt;p&gt;- Zoom is indeed great. Reliable and clean UI. Local recording to MP4 makes for easy sharing.&lt;p&gt;- Webex is a bit less intuitive, but still reliable. Proprietary video recording protocol makes it video&amp;#x27;s hard to share.&lt;p&gt;- Skype Business should die in a fire. Unreliable and terrible UI. The Mac version of it is pretty much broken. A lot of folks can&amp;#x27;t find out how to screen share.&lt;p&gt;- BlueJean. Trying too hard to be fancy with their UI. They are also very proud with their Dolby Voice, but I find it harder to properly understand people (My hearing is not that great).&lt;p&gt;- Google Hangouts &amp;#x2F; Meet doesn&amp;#x27;t work in Safari for no good reason IMHO. High CPU usage and could use some more features, like a personal room and default meetings settings (no vid&amp;#x2F;mute by default on join, default audio devices etc)</text></comment>
<story><title>A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>The US made Eric attempt to get a visa eight times before he was finally successful. We should be poaching the world&amp;#x27;s talent belligerently, strategically, handing out citizenship and saying thank you for choosing our country over others. Instead, the clowns in Washington DC make the best and brightest go through hell just to come here and contribute. Only either a malevolent or incompetent government would sabotage its own nation in such a manner.&lt;p&gt;Were I briefly king, one of the first things I&amp;#x27;d do is task the Federal Reserve to create a large &amp;#x27;steal the talent fund&amp;#x27; (by another name) and set out on draining the world of as much talent as possible. I&amp;#x27;d use clever funding programs to make it easier for the best to move to and transition to the US. A tiny bit of inflation in exchange for a massive long-term return. The rest of the world would in part pay - via the international holdings of dollars - for my program to steal their own best and brightest.&lt;p&gt;Every graduate of a major US university gets automatic citizenship. The best scientists, engineers, doctors, and so on, I&amp;#x27;d want all of them. I&amp;#x27;d do almost anything it takes to get them to my shores. Half of everything America is in its wealth or accomplishments, spanning two centuries now, is owed to brave immigrants that chose to abandon a life elsewhere and seek opportunity here at great risk. It&amp;#x27;s hard to comprehend the enormity of the mistake that is the US immigration system. We don&amp;#x27;t even take a neutral approach, we take a make-it-difficult approach.</text></comment>